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在上周美陆军协会举办的“未来全球力量”视频会议上，洛克希德马丁公司展出了在研的“斗牛士”（MORFIUS）高功率微波反无人机或蜂群无人机系统。MORFIUS是一种可重复使用的无人机，载荷为高功率微波发射装置，功率相当于1000瓦微波炉的100万倍，总重13.5公斤，由直径15.24厘米发射管发射，可地基、车载和机载。该公司导弹与火控部门负责人布雷恩·邓恩称，几乎可以表明，机载发射高功率微波是应对未来日益增长的蜂群无人机威胁的有效方案。

Drones Vs. Drones: Lockheed MORFIUS Uses Microwaves To Kill Swarms

Crucial to the promise of MORFIUS is its ability to zap many drones at once in mid-air, far from the friendly vehicles, buildings, or people actively being defended.

By   KELSEY ATHERTONon March 19, 2021 BreakingDefense

The tube-launched MORFIUS in flight. (Lockheed Martin)

ALBUQUERQUE: To fight the growing danger of hostile drones, Lockheed Martin is offering MORFIUS, a drone armed with a High-Powered Microwave (HPM) to zap UAV swarms out of the sky. MORFIUS is a reusable drone that can fit inside a six-inch diameter launch tube and weighs less than 30 pounds, light and versatile enough to attach to ground stations, ground vehicles, or aircraft.

Presenting as part of the AUSA’s Global Force Next conference, the company outlined why, exactly, it sees microwave weapons as a nearly future-proof answer to a rapidly evolving threat.

“We’re focused on how we address the counter-UAS swarm threat,” said Brain Dunn, of Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. Lockheed Martin really believes, he continued, “that an airborne delivered HPM effect really has an opportunity to make a big difference against the counter-UAS swarm flight that we’re going to be facing in the future.”

Working as part of a layered approach to counter-drone defense, MORFIUS units will be launched at hostile drones, or drone swarms, and then disable them in close proximity, with potentially a gigawatt of microwave power — or, as Lockheed put it, a million times the power of a standard 1,000-watt microwave oven.

Asked about the feasibility of a small flying machine carrying enough battery for such a burst, Lockheed refused to get into specifics, instead simply saying that the power comparison was favorable to ground systems. This is possible because MORFIUS can fly close to its targets and blast them with microwaves at close range – unlike ground-based systems, whose microwave emissions lose energy as they cross longer distances.

Crucial to the promise of MORFIUS is its ability to zap many drones at once in mid-air, far from the friendly vehicles, buildings, or people actively being defended.

“You have to engage the target before it gets to its ordnance release line, if it’s a kinetic effect, or if it’s an electronic attack, or defeat it before it can employ its ISR capabilities,” said Dunn.

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