It uses an array of antennas (the circular thingies), making it possible to form a narrow(ish) beam (as seen in the animation)
The reason this works is because drones are made of plastic and microwaves pass through it to induce currents in metals of internal components. It is probably fairly easy to melt motor windings if you put out enough power.
I am sure only a little bit of shielding would be enough to make this weapon a lot less effective. A tin layer of metal foil would be able to resist the currents and prevent them from affecting internal components.
Tin doesn't add that much protection. It's great for passive interference, but for an active high energy system, the best it could do was heat up instead of the elctronics. But it'd have to be anchored to the drone somehow - and those anchor points, or the tin itself, would need to be able to effectively shed a couple hundred degrees of heat pretty quick as more energy is pumped into the system.
You could negate it with a faraday cage, but then it couldn't communicate back to base, be remote controlled, or scan things via em or visually after launch....it'd basically be a dumb missile or rpg at that point and not a drone.
So... a DEW?
Can it melt cars and houses too? Asking for a friend...
And people
It's CGI. Not sure if they made it already.
It uses an array of antennas (the circular thingies), making it possible to form a narrow(ish) beam (as seen in the animation)
The reason this works is because drones are made of plastic and microwaves pass through it to induce currents in metals of internal components. It is probably fairly easy to melt motor windings if you put out enough power.
I am sure only a little bit of shielding would be enough to make this weapon a lot less effective. A tin layer of metal foil would be able to resist the currents and prevent them from affecting internal components.
Tin doesn't add that much protection. It's great for passive interference, but for an active high energy system, the best it could do was heat up instead of the elctronics. But it'd have to be anchored to the drone somehow - and those anchor points, or the tin itself, would need to be able to effectively shed a couple hundred degrees of heat pretty quick as more energy is pumped into the system.
You could negate it with a faraday cage, but then it couldn't communicate back to base, be remote controlled, or scan things via em or visually after launch....it'd basically be a dumb missile or rpg at that point and not a drone.
Seems like really heavy batteries would be needed... Unless they've got super advanced hidden tech in that area as well