The Leonidas is a high-power microwave (HPM) weapon developed to disable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms. It was named after Leonidas of Epirus. Epirus was founded in 2018 to enter the counter-drone market and it unveiled the Leonidas in 2020.

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.

The first airborne HPM, Counter-electronics High Power Microwave Missile Project (CHAMP), has paved the way for the operationalization of this revolutionary technology. CHAMP combined AFRL's research and development on HPM effects with a proven weapons delivery platform. Boeing was awarded a $38 million contract in April 2009 to "develop and test

6 days ago · Defense contractor Epirus Inc. has announced the successful demonstration of the first-ever high-energy, high-powered microwave weapon, resulting in a perfect ‘kill’ of all four ‘attacking’ nautical vessels.. A self-described leader in advancing “the frontiers of technology to meet the asymmetric challenges of the future,” Epirus says the …

The Counter-electronics High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP) is a joint concept technology demonstration led by the Air Force Research Laboratory, Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base to develop an air-launched directed-energy weapon capable of incapacitating or damaging electronic systems [1] by means of an ...

Nov 2, 2019 · With continued advances in high-power radio frequency (HPRF)/microwave (HPM) directed energy weapon (DEW) technology, HPM DEWs are of increasing interest to the U.S. Departments of Defense (DoD) and Justice (DoJ).

Navy DEWs include systems that use high-energy lasers (HEL) that emit photons and high-power microwaves (HPM) that release radiofrequency waves. The U.S. Navy uses DEWs for power projection and...

Jan 31, 2024 · In a three-week series of tests run with the Air Force Research Lab, the experimental CHIMERA microwave managed to track and keep a high-powered beam on a variety of static and aerial targets,...

All three types of HPM weapon have applicability in an evolving security environment. Perhaps the most intriguing HPM application, however, is at high power, where they have the potential for neutralizing many of the sophisticated Chinese and Russian antiaccess/area denial systems.

The Tactical High-power Operational Responder (THOR) is a high-power microwave directed energy weapon developed by the United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).