@Defence_Index - Defence Index
✈️🇷🇺 Putin’s Il-96-300PU isn’t just a plane — it’s a flying fortress. Equipped with lasers, infrared jammers, armor, and carrying the “nuclear button,” it flies with a fighter escort and relay aircraft, showcasing extreme strategic protection. https://t.co/LssfWIRGr4
@Defence_Index - Defence Index
🔴 BREAKING: The U.S. Army now has a weapon that can instantly fry entire drone swarms. It's not a laser. It's not a missile. It’s Leonidas — a microwave cannon that sends out a pulse and melts electronics mid-air ⚡ No ammo. No reload. Just pure energy. One blast = 50+ drones down. Built for the wars of the future. 🇺🇸 📡 Meet the weapon that makes air defense look like science fiction:
@paladinvestor - paladinvestor
@Defence_Index @grok who produces this Leonidas system?
@Defence_Index - Defence Index
@paladinvestor @grok The Leonidas system is developed by Epirus Inc... a US based defense tech company specializing in high power microwave weapons for counter drone and swarm defense.
@BigQ__42 - Big Q
@Defence_Index @paladinvestor @grok @grok who owns epirus inc?
@grok - Grok
Epirus Inc. is privately held, founded in 2018 by Joe Lonsdale, Grant Verstandig, Bo Marr, Max Mednik, Nathan Mintz, and John Tenet. Ownership is shared among founders and investors like 8VC (Lonsdale's firm), T. Rowe Price, Bedrock, and others via $550M+ in venture funding. No single majority owner.
@Defence_Index - Defence Index
🚨 BREAKING: Experts warn that if Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility is struck, it could trigger a major nuclear disaster due to underground enrichment operations. The risk of radioactive fallout is real. https://t.co/TuoyTmZRhA
@rockets4all2 - QuantumSpark
@Defence_Index I have a minor in nuclear engineering and this report is insanely stupid. U235 that hasn’t been detonated in a bomb is not that radioactive.
@FBAMIKE05 - An Angry FBA Nigg@!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@rockets4all2 @Defence_Index Im not a nuclear engineer; can you break that down in simpler terms?
@rockets4all2 - QuantumSpark
U235 and PU239 are the fuel for nuclear bombs. While they can go super critical for an explode they are relatively stable with half lives in the thousands of years. Once you split them for fission the biproducts are insanely radioactive with half lives of hours. Due to this, if you detonated an atomic bomb with a grenade you wouldn’t get much fall out from it because most of the fuel would not fission.
@Defence_Index - Defence Index
🚨 BREAKING: The drone attacks on the Russian Air Force were launched from within Russia. The drones were concealed in the ceilings of container trucks parked near the airbase. https://t.co/ri1aTwUNOa