The Pentagon is about to find out whether lasers and microwaves can stop cheap drones at home, while Ukraine races to catch Russia's jet-powered strike drones.
This episode covers the Joint Interagency Task Force 401 pilot of four directed-energy weapons: AeroVironment's palletized laser, Kord's Firefly, Boeing's Compact Laser Weapon System and the Epirus Leonidas microwave, across five US bases. We follow up on Falcon Peak with 378 border drone incursions in 30 days and 11 cartel drones downed by laser. We examine Anduril's Arsenal-2 shipyard, a Navy contract worth up to $2.9 billion paired with $3.7 billion of company investment for Virginia-class submarine components. We follow up on Ukraine's interceptor bottleneck, with Zelensky announcing a new interceptor aimed at jet-powered Geran-4 and Banderol drones, four models in combat testing and about ten more in prototype. Plus the Army's planned autonomy command and AM General's armed robotic truck with a 30mm cannon.
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