Welsh trial success as drones taken down

A UK-DEVELOPED invisible radio-wave weapon has taken down “drone swarms’ in the largest trial of its type to date.

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British soldiers have successfully tracked, targeted and neutralised swarms of drones in the latest trial of a new directed-energy weapon developed in the UK.

The trial was completed at a weapons range in west Wales in what the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is hailing as the largest counter-drone swarm exercise the British Army has conducted to date.

The weapon system demonstrator is a type of Radiofrequency Directed Energy Weapon (RF DEW) and has “proven capable of neutralising multiple targets simultaneously with near-instant effect”, the MoD said.