US: World’s first high-pulse microwave robot to fry drone swarms in seconds unveiled

15 Comments on US: World’s first high-pulse microwave robot to fry drone swarms in seconds unveiled

1. Back in the late 90s we did a ton of work for General Dynamics Land Systems. Top notch engineering department. Doesn’t look like much has changed.

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2. The next-generation model will be the T-800. After that will come the T-1000 liquid metal upgrade.

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3. Send one of these to Ukraine for field testing under actual war conditions to see if it will survive.

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4. Pogo

   I’d bet money they already have.

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5. I could see Jarheads using it to cook hot dogs

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6. Like anything with transistors in it, one good EMP and it’s toast.

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7. Back about 50 years ago the radar guys used to put a whole chicken on wooden pole and stick it up into the radome. Took about 15 seconds to cook!

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8. It’ll work just fine as long as they can find Tesla charging stations on the battlefield.

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9. Poor Tina’s gotta tired mouth…

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10. “I’d bet money they already have.”

    The prototype makes its debut at the AUSA Annual Meeting next week. If it was battle-testing in Ukraine, it has most likely already been incinerated by a Kinzhal. Or there’s no power to charge the batteries, and it’s sitting in a warehouse in Lvov on trickle charge from a diesel generator.

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11. Thirdtwin

    If you think they have one proto you would be wrong. They develop these weapons in stages to get to the final product. They just don’t mach one up and say, OK boys, let’s go check er out. I would imagine there’s about a 50/50 that the actual Micro Wave portion of this could have been in the big testing ground over there in Europe.
    Prototype in name only.

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12. Bad_Brad, I’m not saying there’s only one(although Lockheed only had one P-38 prototype, which they promptly crashed trying to set a transcontinental speed record. Bit I have to assume everybody learned from
    that.)

    What I am saying is that unless this wunderwaffen provably drops a whole swarm of Russian drones, we’ll never hear about it. Given what has happened to our top shelf stuff over there, I’m not expecting to hear anything, whether it’s there already or if it gets mass-produced and deployed in combat in Ukraine.

    Maybe it could be useful somewhere which has a functioning power grid. Maybe they’ll build an IC engine version. I don’t know. But it sure seems like another shiny boondoggle trying to solve a secondary problem because the MIC can’t solve the primary hypersonic problem.

    You and I go round about this stuff occasionally, all in good faith, and as always, when it comes down to it, I do hope you are right.

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13. Wild Bill= Not so. Modern military electronics are “hardened” to take EMP damage attacks. You could protect your whole house with a Farady cage but it would cost big $$$

14. How long does it take to charge? Idiocy.

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15. “Modern military electronics are “hardened” to take EMP damage attacks.”

    Rodents? Not so much…

    “The mice chewed everything: Radios, repeaters, wires. Mice got into cars and chewed on the electrical wiring, so the cars wouldn’t run, and they also chewed on tanks and wheels,” Kira said. “The losses from the mice in our dugout alone amount to one million hryvnia [$26,500].”

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/21/europe/rats-and-mice-swarm-trenches-in-ukraine-in-grisly-echo-of-world-war-i

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