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The Microwave Wall

The directed-energy shakeout of 2024–2026 produced a survivor, and it is not the laser. High-power microwave weapons — Epirus Leonidas delivered to the US Army in 2024, THOR standing guard at USAF bases — kill drones by the cone, not by the beam: every circuit board inside the effect volume dies together. With the Pentagon's October 2026 base-defense program naming four directed-energy systems for the fixed-site layer, the microwave has become the procurement answer to the swarm.

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