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AFA 2025: CUAS solutions demonstrate modularity and portability focus

3rd October 2025 - 13:29 GMT | by Wilder Alejandro Sanchez in Washington, DC, US

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Epirus’s Leonidas CUAS achieved a 100% success rate in testing against 61 drones. (Credit: Epirus)

Aerovironment, Epirus and SNC displayed their counter-uncrewed aerial systems, with both non-kinetic and kinetic options for military services.

At the recent Air, Space & Cyber defence expo organised by the Air Force Association (AFA), the displayed counter-uncrewed aerial systems (CUASs) highlighted modularity and portability as key objectives for new solutions.

Epirus presented Leonidas, its flagship long-pulse, high-power microwave (HPM) CUAS, which the company defines as “a revolutionary approach to directed energy”. The system is modular and scalable, the company told Shephard, as the line-replaceable amplifier module (LRAM) can be adapted to fit different vehicles for transportation, or used as a stationary service.

Shane Karp, vice-president for marketing and communications at Epirus, explained that Leonidas is in its second generation, which has

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