20260724 Wie wird man Drohnen wieder los?

24.07.2026 Wie wird man Drohnen wieder los?

Better to Ban Combat Drones

The story is reminiscent of "The Sorcerer’s Apprentice", in which the protagonist, after enthusiastically inventing something — in this case, drones — can no longer control them and seeks ways to get rid of them. Heise.de reports that the U.S. defense contractor Lockheed Martin is developing a prototype of an autonomous drone hunter called the Morfius X-Rotor. The device is designed to use HPM (High Power Microwave) to combat any swarms of drones that come its way.

The problem with defending against drones using nets or projectiles is the small size of the devices. A U.S. Reaper combat drone was still the size of an airplane and could be detected by radar and shot down if it wasn’t flying too high for the enemy.

Morfius, on the other hand, only needs to trigger short circuits in the drones’ internal electronics or their circuit boards and melt the contacts. This would make Morfius much more cost-effective than, for example, the drones demonstrated and highly praised by Interior Minister Dobrindt during a police demonstration. Those drones were capable of bringing down other drones by deploying nets.

... if it weren’t for the story of the Devil and Beelzebub, who end up “exorcising” each other. Unfortunately, we can’t hope that no one will tell the developers of Morfius that it could also be used to fly over unwelcome crowds to fry their brains...

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