This giant microwave may change the future of war

For the cost, every Leonidas unit in the army is currently working in the “eight low numbers”, Lori told me. The pricing of the defense contracts can be transparent, but EPIRUS handed over four units for its initial contract of $ 66 million, giving a family price of about $ 16.5 million each. For comparison, the STIRIREON missiles, which are launched by the soldiers fired on the fire on enemy planes or drones from a shoulder -installed launcher, cost hundreds of thousands of dollars on pop music, which means that Leonidas may start its cost less (and continue to shoot) after the first wave of the swarm was dropped.

Raytheon radar, opposite

Epirus is part of a new wave of capitalist defense companies that are trying to change the way weapons are created-and the way Pentagon buys. Defense companies, companies such as Raytheon, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin are developing new weapons in response to research grants and contracts that exceed the cost, in which the US Department of Defense guarantees a specific profit margin for companies that build products that suit the laundry list of technical specifications. These programs have kept the army with advanced weapons for decades, but the results may be wonderful pieces of military machines that were delivered late and billions of dollars on the budget.

Instead of building the detailed detailed specifications, the new crop of military contractors aims to produce products on a fast time frame to solve a problem and then control them while they are on the army. The model, which was pioneering by Palantir and Spacex, paid companies such as Anduil and Shield AI and dozens of other smaller starters in war business as investment capital accumulates dozens of dollars in defense.

Like Anduril, EPIRUUs has the roots directly. It was postponed by Jo Lonsale, who was established in Al -Athir, John Tenite, Lonsdale Fellow at the time in the Venture box, 8VC. (Perhaps Tenit, the son of the former CIA director, George Tenite, inspired the name of the company-Sheikh Tenit’s parents in the Ebrus area in northwestern Greece. But the company says it is a reference to the false fake Aitiros from the movie “Fantasy 2011 for the year 2011” ImmortalThat is not running out of stocks.)

While EPIRUS does commercial business in the new situation, its roots are old – specifically in Raytheon, a pioneer in the field of microwave technology. It was postponed by Professor Mit Vanifar Bush in 1922, manufactured vacuum tubes, such as those in old radio devices. But the company became synonym for electronic defense during World War II, when Bush operated a laboratory to develop the early microwave radar technology invented by the British into a practical product, then Rayon began the comprehensive productive microwave tubes known as Magnterones-for the American war. By the end of the war in 1945, Raytheon made 80 % of the magnesis working to operate allied radar around the world.

Large pipelines have been the best way to remove high -energy microbiology for more than half a century, easily outperforming silicone solid condition. They are still present – the microwave on the kitchen table extends on a magnetic vacuum tube. But tubes have negative aspects: they are hot, large, and require maintenance. (In fact, the high -energy operational respondent, a bull, the high -energy operational response, or a bull, still depends on a material vacuum tube.

By 2000, the new methods of building loudspeakers began in solid state outside materials such as nitrid Galium maturity and managed to deal with more power than silicon without melting or shortening. The US Navy spent hundreds of millions of dollars on advanced microwave contracts, one for a project in Raytheon called the next generation Jammeer-specifically renewed towards designing a new way to make high-energy micro-waves that work at very long distances.

Lori, CEO of EPIRUUS, began his career to work on nuclear reactors on marine aircraft carriers before he became the chief engineer in the next generation of Jammer in Raytheon in 2010. He goal hundreds of miles away.