'Star Trek shield' technology gets 250M boost to knock drone swarms from the sky with high-powered microwave

Animation shows traditional counter-drone technology vs. Epirus' Leonidas system that can take out entire swarms of drones at once. A new high-powered microwave system that can knock swarms of drones out of the sky at once is going to "touch every aspect of warfare," according to Epirus founder, Joe Lonsdale. "It's kind of like a Star Trek shield," Lonsdale, founder of Epirus and a co-founder of fast-rising defense technology company Palantir, explained of its Leonidas counter-drone system. "It's able to turn them off from very far away." "This is going to touch every aspect of warfare over the next decade," said Lonsdale.