HAMAS is now using grenade drones against the IDF with locally 3d printed fins.
https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1719795974816546959
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#Palestine / #Israel 🇵🇸🇮🇱: Al-Qassam Brigades (#HAMAS) carried out a drone attack on #IDF soldiers in Beit Hanoun, #Gaza.
The group dropped a craft-made copy of M26A2 hand grenade fitted with contact fuze and tail; which was resulted in the deaths of several Israeli soldiers.
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https://twitter.com/AirPowerNEW1/sta...23988430299597
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From developing the worlds first functional solid-state #GaN powered High Power Microwave counter electronics system, to rapidly iterating that to the current 3rd gen #Leonidas, proving it to the US Army & delivering operational system inside a year of being put on contract. đź‘Ź
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https://twitter.com/AirPowerNEW1/sta...50140141895761
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A company spokesman told Breaking Defense the plan is to now deliver the second directed energy weapon to the Army..by the end of December and complete delivery of the full platoon of four IFPC-HPMs early next year.
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https://breakingdefense.com/2023/11/...e-from-epirus/
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WASHINGTON —The US Army has accepted delivery of Epirus’s first high-power microwave prototype for a new developmental initiative aimed at protecting soldiers and facilities from swarms of aerial drones, the company announced today.
The delivery marks the first of four prototypes derived from the company’s Leonidas counter-unmanned aircraft systems (cUAS) system that Epirus owes the service after inking a nearly three-year, $66.1 million contract in December 2022 for the Indirect Fire Protection Capability–High-Power Microwave (IFPC-HPM) initiative. A company spokesman told Breaking Defense the plan is to now deliver the second directed energy weapon to the Army’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO) by the end of December and complete delivery of the full platoon of four IFPC-HPMs early next year.
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As I posted in previous post (edited in, so Don may have missed it), but the pace of drone development / counter drone development is so rapid, with everyone getting them, that I think that it may be useful to simply consolidate these types of equipment into BLUE or RED OBAT as "Grenade Drone", "Mortar Drone", "25 kg Kamikaze Drone", "Resupply UGV", "Resupply UAS", "HPM Microwave Weapon", "Laser" etc.
I know you guys talked about in the past how you wished you had done more generic weapons systems -- "5.56mm rifle", "5.56mm scoped rifle", "5.56mm LMG" -- to save on weapon slots in national OBATS.