2025-06-19
38 分钟Drones have transformed warfare.
In a recent operation deep inside Russia,
Ukrainians managed to damage multiple warplanes using fleets of drones that emerged from what looked like shipping containers.
President Zelensky said his forces used 117 drones in strikes on Russian air bases targeting warplanes,
including strategic bombers.
He has carried out coordinated drone attacks at several military air bases across Russia as far away as eastern Siberia.
At least 40 Russian aircraft were hit.
Ukraine says Operation Spiderweb caused $7 billion in damage.
As drones have become more capable, soldiers have used various ways to bring them down.
Electronic jamming is one method.
This stops drones from receiving instructions from their operators.
Shotguns are another.
But more sophisticated and more comprehensive methods are also in the works.
We need a layered defense, meaning, hey,
I don't care about if there's a thousand or ten thousand drones.
I'm going to put a whole sector of the sky under some field of electromagnetic energy that when consumer electronics enter it,
they stop working.
Andy Lowry is an engineer and the founder of a company called Epirus.
And therefore I can put a shield or a force field.
up in a section around whatever critical asset I'm trying to protect.