{"id":498,"date":"2025-04-18T10:59:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T10:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worldfamilytrees.com\/?p=498"},"modified":"2025-04-18T12:18:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T12:18:47","slug":"uk-army-tests-new-drone-killing-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.worldfamilytrees.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/uk-army-tests-new-drone-killing-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Army tests new drone-killing weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"1362\" height=\"783\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.worldfamilytrees.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GovgFwSaYAA_XjA-1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The British Army has successfully conducted the first live-fire trials of the RapidDestroyer, a radio frequency-based directed energy weapon (RF DEW) designed to neutralize drone swarms at short range. The trials, supported by the Ministry of Defence and led by Thales UK, mark a milestone in the country\u2019s push to develop next-generation counter-drone capabilities. According [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/uk-army-tests-new-drone-killing-weapon\/\">UK Army tests new drone-killing weapon<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/defence-blog.com\">Defence Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Army has successfully conducted the first live-fire trials of the RapidDestroyer, a radio frequency-based directed energy weapon (RF DEW) designed to neutralize drone swarms at short range. The trials, supported by the Ministry of Defence and led by Thales UK, mark a milestone in the country\u2019s push to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldfamilytrees.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldfamilytrees.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldfamilytrees.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldfamilytrees.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldfamilytrees.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldfamilytrees.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldfamilytrees.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldfamilytrees.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldfamilytrees.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldfamilytrees.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldfamilytrees.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}