{"id":87462,"date":"2019-02-06T09:44:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T17:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/heres-the-armys-now-patented-emp-rifle-attachment-for-taking-out-small-drones"},"modified":"2019-02-06T09:44:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T17:44:29","slug":"heres-the-armys-now-patented-emp-rifle-attachment-for-taking-out-small-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/heres-the-armys-now-patented-emp-rifle-attachment-for-taking-out-small-drones","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s the Army\u2019s now-patented EMP rifle attachment for taking out small drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heres-the-armys-now-patented-emp-rifle-attachment-for-taking-out-small-drones.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A U.S. Army engineer\u2019s idea to turn the standard M4 rifle into an electromagnetic pulse gun recently got the nod from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.<\/p>\n<p>James E. Burke, electronics engineer at the U.S. Army\u2019s Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, received U.S. patent 10,180,309 on Tuesday, giving the Army intellectual property protections on Burke\u2019s \u201cElectromagnetic Pulse Transmitter Muzzle Adapter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This invention would enable a single soldier in a ground unit to destroy enemy electronics, such as small drones or improvised explosive devices, by attaching a special blank-firing adapter to their rifle\u2019s muzzle, then firing a shot.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techlinkcenter.org\/heres-the-armys-now-patented-emp-rifle-attachment-for-taking-out-small-drones\/\">https:\/\/techlinkcenter.org\/heres-the-armys-now-patented-emp-...ll-drones\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. Army engineer\u2019s idea to turn the standard M4 rifle into an electromagnetic pulse gun recently got the nod from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. James E. Burke, electronics engineer at the U.S. Army\u2019s Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, received U.S. patent 10,180,309 on Tuesday, giving the Army intellectual property protections on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,38,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-engineering","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87462","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}