US Navy Launched Something That Shouldn’t Exist… Iran Can’t Stop It – story-veterans.com

High-powered microwave weapons, in particular, are engineered to disrupt or destroy electronic components by overwhelming circuits with electromagnetic energy. Instead of detonating a drone, they can disable its guidance or control systems, causing it to lose stability and fall.

If operationally deployed, such systems would alter the economic equation. Instead of expending a missile for every incoming drone, a destroyer could potentially neutralize multiple targets within a single engagement cycle, limited primarily by power generation and thermal management rather than magazine count.