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  1. High-power microwave ‘force field’ knocks drone swarms from sky

    Feb 18, 2025 · In the mix of counter-UAS systems under development today like kinetics, lasers, and jamming, only one technology, high-power microwave (HPM), is specifically designed to take out swarms of...

  2. Leonidas High-Power Microwave System, US - Army Technology

    Aug 9, 2024 · Leonidas is a high-power microwave (HPM) technology-based directed energy weapon system developed by US-based technology company Epirus to provide counter-uncrewed aerial system (C-UAS) capabilities.

  3. MORFIUS - Lockheed Martin

    MORFIUS is a reusable, multi-engagement, loitering, tube-launched interceptor equipped with an onboard seeker and a compact, high-power microwave effector to execute non-kinetic defeat of drones – including complex swarms

  4. Marines to get new drone-killing microwave weapon designed for ...

    Sep 23, 2024 · Epirus is slated to provide a new drone zapper to the Marine Corps before the end of the year, the company announced Monday. The high-power microwave weapon prototype, known as Leonidas Expeditionary, is being developed under a $5.5 million contract as part of the Defense Department’s Expeditionary Directed Energy Counter-Swarm (ExDECS ...

  5. Counter-Swarm Technology Combats Threats - Lockheed Martin

    Engineered with decades of expertise in high-powered microwave (HPM) technology, MORFIUS is the leading compact airborne HPM system built to combat drones and drone swarms. It’s capable of simultaneously defeating multiple threats in a single defensive attack and can combat swarming technology.

  6. HPM Armed Drones - SP's Aviation

    Recent reports confirm that Lockheed Martin has developed and is now offering MORFIUS, a drone armed with High-Powered Microwave (HPM) to defeat or kill drone swarms out of the sky. MORFIUS is a reusable drone that can fit inside a six-inch diameter launch tube and weighs less than 30 pounds or 13.6 kilograms.

  7. TECH: “Leonidas” microwave anti-drone weapon infographic

    In an attempt to tackle this growing problem, Epirus has created "Leonidas", a portable, High Power Microwave (HPM) energy weapon that can be used to disable a swarm of drones in a single blast or knock-out an individual drone with pinpoint accuracy.

  8. US Army Receives First Microwave-Based Counter Drone Swarm …

    Nov 2, 2023 · Epirus has delivered the first of four high-powered microwave-based counter drone swarm systems to the US Army. The initial Indirect Fire Protection Capability – High-Power Microwave (IFPC-HPM) system is part of a $66-million contract the firm clinched in January ahead of six contenders.

  9. AFRL to Test a Drone-Swarm Killer HPM - Defense Update

    Sep 23, 2019 · Using high power microwave transmitted at an individual drone or a group of targets, to kill their radio-electronic circuits, Phased offers a unique capability to engage many drones packed in a swarm, thus eliminate this peril that cannot be engaged by any other weapon.

  10. The Leidos TIGER HPM source introduces a breakthrough counter-drone capability. This compact, man-portable source is a rugged design that incorporates a battery-equipped power supply, packed in a hard-shell case, supporting hundreds of engagements between recharges. TIGER provides a non-kinetic defense capability against the urgent threat of small

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