Electromagnetic Weapon Destroys Drone Swarm in Seconds: ‘Singularity Event’
2nd September 2025
Last Tuesday, defense contractor Epirus quietly tested its latest electromagnetic weapon, Leonidas, against a swarm of 49 quadcopters, neutralizing them in seconds at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, according to Axios, the only news outlet invited to the groundbreaking test. Numerous U.S. military services and foreign allies, including Indo-Pacific partners, witnessed the event. In an interview with Axios, Epirus CEO Andy Lowery hailed the “forcefield system” as a “singularity event.”
The great weakness of drones is their command and control systems; disrupt that, and they are useless.
Of course, eventually we will get drones that are fully autonomous, controlled by some sort of on-board AI, and then it will get very interesting. As usual, science fiction stories have been all over this for decades.