Raytheon Pushes Microwave Weapon To Kill UAV Swarms
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Raytheon says it has developed a formidable weapon for countering UAV swarms based around a high-power magnetron that can emit enough microwave energy to clear an area in the sky the size of a football field with one pulse. The ground-based high-power microwave (HPM) unit uses the same technology...
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