The United States has been testing high-power microwave (HPM) weapons designed to counter drone swarms using bursts of electromagnetic energy instead of traditional missiles or bullets. These systems emit powerful pulses that can disable the electronics of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles at once. In controlled demonstrations, U.S. defense programs have shown the ability to neutralize dozens of drones in a single engagement. Rather than physically destroying targets, microwave weapons overload

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Combat rescue officers, from the 351st Specials Warfare Training Squadron, visited Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., to train with MQ-9 Reaper pilots and sensor operators from the 6th and 16th Attack Squadrons, March 13th-15th, 2019. A Joint Terminal Attack Controller from the 7th Air Support Operations Squadron also participated in the joint exercise, to assist the CROs with improving their radio communications. The General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper (sometimes called Predator B) is an unmanned aerial ve

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