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why aren't all 10 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable

Prediction Didn’t hold up
Lowery: Epirus Will Enter a DoD Program of Record in 2025
“We are deploying to CENTCOM. If those deployments are successful, we will be palmed into a program or record In 20, 25.”
Andy Lowery Aug 16, 2024 ▶ 29:22 Electronic Warfare and Real-Life Force Fields! Epirus CEO Andy Lowery · Joe Lonsdale
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.”
Bo Marmon Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 1:22 Force Fields & Directed Energy Are Here! How Epirus Is Changing Defense Tech · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Marr: Leonidas counter-drone microwave beam is safe for humans
“It's safe for people.”
Bo Marmon Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 13:33 Force Fields & Directed Energy Are Here! How Epirus Is Changing Defense Tech · Joe Lonsdale
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.”
Bo Marmon Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 18:17 Force Fields & Directed Energy Are Here! How Epirus Is Changing Defense Tech · Joe Lonsdale
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.”
Bo Marmon Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 9:57 Force Fields & Directed Energy Are Here! How Epirus Is Changing Defense Tech · Joe Lonsdale
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”
Bo Marmon Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 5:33 Force Fields & Directed Energy Are Here! How Epirus Is Changing Defense Tech · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Contradicted
Lowery: FPV drones require direct impact, making short-range microwave defenses effective
“What happens is, is a first person viewer drone with what they call a contact charge needs to drive that first person view drone all the way into impact. Cause how the contact charge works is it hits the armor And then a little spike shoots through the armor, …”
Andy Lowery Aug 16, 2024 ▶ 10:45 Electronic Warfare and Real-Life Force Fields! Epirus CEO Andy Lowery · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Lowery: Epirus delivered four systems to Army in 15 months
“So when the army gave us a contract, they said, see if we can deliver these in a couple years, two and a, it was a two and a half years actually. We delivered four systems in 15 months. I mean, just unheard of. 15 months, four full systems to the Army.”
Andy Lowery Aug 16, 2024 ▶ 18:28 Electronic Warfare and Real-Life Force Fields! Epirus CEO Andy Lowery · Joe Lonsdale
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.”
Bo Marmon Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 17:12 Force Fields & Directed Energy Are Here! How Epirus Is Changing Defense Tech · Joe Lonsdale
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.”
Bo Marmon Dec 15, 2021 ▶ 20:34 Force Fields & Directed Energy Are Here! How Epirus Is Changing Defense Tech · Joe Lonsdale
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