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Regardless I think the primary challenge with these systems will be energy on site and a surge of it during waves of attacks. Charged up capacitors can only handle so many waves.

WastedCucumber•25m ago

I was wondering the same thing, but haven't found much. Sounds like it's only ever been a mobile installation - on a trailer, stryker, and a ship. Except for the ship, that probably means a relatively limited power supply. And its limited range probably means that stationary installations don't make much sense.

Sure seems like NATO would love to get a hold of some of these.

giantg2•8m ago

Potentially collateral damage too. You zapped some drones 100 yards away, but what about that airplane a couple miles out?

JumpCrisscross•5m ago

> what about that airplane a couple miles out?

Are these Masars? If not, square cubed to the rescue.

aurizon•14m ago

A faraday foil layer will save electronics and shielded cable runs will block air induced pulses. Wired motor coils will tolerate, and fiber optic are immune. You can even control via IR data using a bidirectional LED with a faraday copper window screen protecting the electronics. The police use a microwave car stopper that uses pulsed EMI. Just new armor = new chinks = the race continues.

startupsfail•13m ago

There was a nice video, I've seen at some point where a "DJI Phantom 3 drone gets hit with an electrical impulse of 1.4MV - basically, a lightning strike."

And at the end, they were able to protect the drone, with a tiny bit of shielding...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3iJjrQmEho

decker•2m ago

The starting cost for a drone show is around $20k USD, so it wouldn't be hard to fake what they are doing. It's hard to say if this a functioning system that can take down drone swarms, or someone is testing the market for a system that can.