U.S. electronics warfare specialist Epirus recently demonstrated its flagship Leonidas weapon at a live fire trial in Indiana. The Leonidas system is a high-power microwave (HPM) weapon that “delivers weaponized electromagnetic interference to counter swarms of robotic, asymmetric threats.” During the demo, the latest version of Leonidas successfully disabled all 61 of the 61 drones. Epirus’ Leonidas system even managed to down 49 drones in a single ‘shot’ of its HPM beam. Development of Leonidas began in 2022, and its latest iteration, as demonstrated in the video above, offers “more than double the operational range and lethality” than the first models. After the successful drone-disrupting showcase earlier this month, Andy Lowery, Epirus CEO, was quick to claim that his firm had reached a “watershed moment.” Furthermore, the demo showed that “Leonidas is the only mission-capable, counter-swarm solution for the one-to-many fight,” asserted Lowery. He underlined his sentiment with the fact that attendees had witnessed “61 drones went up—and 61 went down.”

Full report : The Epirus Leonidas weapon ‘neutralized 61-of-61 drones’; weaponized electromagnetic interference erases drone swarms en masse.

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