{"id":202345,"date":"2024-12-25T00:02:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T06:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/british-soldiers-successfully-test-drone-killer-radiowave-weapon-for-first-time"},"modified":"2024-12-25T00:02:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T06:02:24","slug":"british-soldiers-successfully-test-drone-killer-radiowave-weapon-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/british-soldiers-successfully-test-drone-killer-radiowave-weapon-for-first-time","title":{"rendered":"British soldiers successfully test drone killer radiowave weapon for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/british-soldiers-successfully-test-drone-killer-radiowave-weapon-for-first-time3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>British soldiers have successfully trialled for the first time a game-changing weapon that can take down a swarm of drones using radio waves for less than the cost of a pack of mince pies.<\/p>\n<p>The Radio Frequency Directed Energy Weapon (RFDEW) development system can detect, track and engage a range of threats across land, air and sea.<\/p>\n<p>RFDEWs are capable of neutralising targets up to 1km away with near instant effect and at an estimated cost of 10p per shot fired, providing a cost-effective complement to traditional missile-base air defence systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British soldiers have successfully trialled for the first time a game-changing weapon that can take down a swarm of drones using radio waves for less than the cost of a pack of mince pies. The Radio Frequency Directed Energy Weapon (RFDEW) development system can detect, track and engage a range of threats across land, air [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}