Opinion
Marr: Epirus's Leonidas system acts like a force field for military bases
“We think about Leonidas as it really creates what's like a force field. You can create a force field around a base or defensive area. So I think it really does change the game.”
Assertion Supported
Marr: Epirus created the world's first software-defined EMP weapon
“We have created the world's first Software defined electromagnetic pulse capability.”
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Marr: Epirus achieves 90% to 95% power efficiency improvements
“We're getting 90%, 95% power efficiency improvements.”
Insight
Marr: Power transistor density is doubling every 18 months
“We've published a peer reviewed journal article in, in December, 2020 on a lot. We've discovered, we believe we've discovered a lot that the power density of these transistors, it's doubling about every 18 months. We plotted all the data. Back to like the 19 n…”
Assertion Supported
Marr: Leonidas counter-drone microwave beam is safe for humans
“It's safe for people.”
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Marr: Epirus's Leonidas disables drones beyond visible range
“So we have demonstrated beyond a visible range. Like a good story I'll tell you is we, when we did our, one of our first field tests field demos, we had about a 70 customers come generals and so forth. It was a great event, and one of the biggest technical cha…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Marr: Epirus directed energy has disabled every electronic device tested against
“So Joe, we have not tried it against any electronics where it didn't work. So every piece of electronics we tried against, it has been successful. So we've taken out GPS, we've taken out guidance as systems.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Marr: Electromagnetic spectrum control will dominate future warfare
“We're expanding into all areas of what's called the electromagnetic spectrum, because that is what is going to assert control in the future area of warfare.”
Opinion
Marr: Only the US provides venture capital for defense startups
“I think we really are in a golden age area of venture capital where you're right. Only in America could we get venture capital to start an aerospace and defense a company.”
Insight
Marr: Silicon neuromorphic chips operate far more efficiently than GPUs
“If you build neurons out of silicon that work much more like the brain, you can operate much more efficiently than like what you can on a GPU.”
Assertion Contradicted
Marr: Epirus demonstrated an EMP weapon outputting gigawatts of power
“One of our first field demos, we showed off our electromagnetic pulse weapon. We're putting out gigawatts of power”
Assertion Contradicted
Marr: Epirus invented chips capable of handling up to 2,000 volts
“So what we've invented is a gallium nitride chips and a silicon carbide chips. These new chips That can handle 1200 volts, 2000 volts. So we've digitized.”
Assertion Supported
Marr: Epirus directed energy successfully disables boat motors and vehicles
“We, so we bought a boat motor running the boat motor in our chamber there. And so we've now got a videos of zapping our boat motors. We've got a bunch of data, how well it worked. It works great on vehicles as well. So it's really any electronics.”
Disclosure
Marr: Epirus self-funds product development to sell at fixed prices
“We're building this thing in a commercial business model. So we're investing our own money to get this thing built and sell it. We're going to sell it to you as a fixed price.”
Opinion
Marr: Directed energy allows area sanitization without hurting humans
“And that's the beauty of a direct energy. I think is, yeah, you can make a place completely safe. We say sanitize an area in a way that will not have to hurt any humans.”
Disclosure
Marr: Epirus is building power systems to speed up naval ships
“We're actually going to, we're working on a project right now. We're actually going to speed up. The goal of the project is to speed up a ship because if all of its gas or energy is going towards the radar, it can't go towards the motor.”
Assertion Supported
Marr: Epirus directed energy disables targets via electronic overvoltage
“We're shooting a photons through the air and then once the photons hit the drone, it's creating such a strong electromagnetic field that it's creating a over voltage scenario on the electronics itself.”
Assertion Supported
Marr: Epirus system can dynamically protect friendly assets from EMP blasts
“So we can put an energy null. We call it a dynamic blue force zone where the user can kind of mark out where they don't want to fire and it can even be dynamic.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Marr: Epirus built its first directed energy prototype in nine months
“What we're showing companies like Epris are showing, yeah, we can build a direct energy system in nine months. And that's how long it took us to get the first prototype from concept, nine months.”
