In a quiet corner of Indiana, a tech company has demonstrated the future of drone defense. Epirus successfully used its Leonidas directed energy weapon system to disable a swarm of 49 drones with a single invisible high-power microwave strike. This was not a missile or gun-based takedown but an electronic strike that simultaneously neutralized multiple drones. This technological leap could redefine current drone engagement rules.

For years, drone swarms have been the nightmare of military strategists. A single drone may be just a nuisance, but dozens or hundreds of coordinated drones can create a strategic disaster. They can overwhelm traditional air defense systems, which are designed to track large, fast-moving targets like jets or missiles, not small intelligent drone swarms.

Using expensive missiles to take them down is often ineffective, while drones’ small size and mobility make them hard to lock onto. This is why Epirus sought a better solution: a method that can immediately neutralize an entire swarm.
Leonidas is a high-power microwave (HPM) weapon that does not fire projectiles but generates a powerful, directional, and tunable microwave energy beam. When this energy strikes a drone, it overloads the drone’s sensitive internal electronics, effectively disrupting its flight control. The drone system then crashes from the sky.

Leonidas is a “software-defined” weapon. It uses a sophisticated miniature antenna, known as a phased array, to shape the energy beam with high speed and precision. It can form multiple beams simultaneously to engage several drone targets, or create a wide “wall” of energy to disperse an entire swarm at once. In the latest demonstration at the Indiana test range, the system successfully detected and disabled a swarm, proving its capability in real-world conditions.

Older HPM weapons functioned like electronic shotguns, with energy bursts potentially affecting friendly electronics or personnel. Leonidas is revolutionary because of its precision: the software-defined phased array acts like an electronic sniper rifle. It can create highly precise energy beams tailored to specific targets with surgical accuracy.

This allows it to disable hostile drones without interfering with nearby friendly aircraft. Specific waveforms can even be programmed to target certain types of drone electronics while leaving others untouched. It is a smarter, safer, and more effective use of microwave energy.

This capability changes the rules for drone threats, providing protection for military bases, naval vessels, and even civilian airports and stadiums against drone swarm attacks.

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