{"id":55323,"date":"2025-04-22T08:30:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T06:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nae.fr\/2025\/04\/22\/in-first-british-army-uses-radio-wave-weapon-to-knock-out-drone-swarm\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T08:30:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T06:30:30","slug":"in-first-british-army-uses-radio-wave-weapon-to-knock-out-drone-swarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nae.fr\/en\/2025\/04\/22\/in-first-british-army-uses-radio-wave-weapon-to-knock-out-drone-swarm\/","title":{"rendered":"In first, British Army uses radio-wave weapon to knock out drone swarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div class=\"info-article\">\n<div class=\"title-hat pl-0\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 bFwqVI body-paragraph body-paragraph\">PARIS \u2014 The British Army successfully tested a radio-wave weapon to knock out drone swarms, as militaries look for new ways to neutralize what has become one of the biggest threats on the modern battlefield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 bFwqVI body-paragraph body-paragraph\">The Army was able to defeat drone swarms for the first time in the latest trial of the weapon-system demonstrator, the Ministry of Defence said in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/british-soldiers-take-down-drone-swarm-in-groundbreaking-use-of-radio-wave-weapon\"><u>statement<\/u><\/a>\u00a0on Thursday. The weapon, developed by a consortium led by Thales UK, uses high-frequency radio waves to fry drone internals, disrupting or damaging critical electronic components and causing the drones to crash or malfunction.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/blockquote>\nPour en savoir plus : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2025\/04\/17\/in-first-british-army-uses-radio-wave-weapon-to-knock-out-drone-swarm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In first, British Army uses radio-wave weapon to knock out drone swarm<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS \u2014 The British Army successfully tested a radio-wave weapon to knock out drone swarms, as militaries look for new ways to neutralize what has become one of the biggest threats on the modern battlefield. 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