US Marines’s new high-power microwave C-UAS can melt down multiple drones in seconds
The US Marines plans to deploy a next-generation high-power microwave (HPM) system capable of simultaneously intercepting multiple drones to enhance its anti-drone capabilities.
Epirus, a US-based counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) manufacturer, is developing the new HPM system – known as Leonidas Expeditionary – in collaboration with the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Joint Counter-Small UAS Office, and US Marine Corps Warfighting Lab.
Epirus is developing the Leonidas Expeditionary – with the program name Expeditionary Directed Energy Counter-Swarm (ExDECS) – as part of a $5.5 million contract award from the US Navy’s ONR.
Epirus will deliver a completed ExDECS HPM system to the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab by the end of 2024 as part of the contract.
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