Exclusive: Electromagnetic weapon zaps drone swarm in seconds

Defense contractor Epirus this week demonstrated its drone-frying Leonidas to observers from various U.S. military services and foreign countries, including some in the Indo-Pacific. In the climax of the two-hour show, Leonidas went up against 49 quadcopters, among the largest grouping it’s ever faced. The “forcefield system,” which weaponizes electromagnetic interference, crippled all of them at once. No pricey projectiles. No fireballs.

Until simple Faraday cage, like 5 cents worth of aluminum foil wrapped around the drone body, defeat the billion dollar system.

Edit: you can have the antenna protrude from the cage without diminishing its effectiveness of the cage’s protection. The signal would be jammed but thats already a problem.

Would it work against a fiberoptic FPV drone? That seems to be the norm in drone warfare now.