A Russian defense company announced it has finished work on a new kind of weapon designed to disable swarms of mini combat drones.

The weapon, produced by Russia’s United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation, will fry the drones’ radio-electric systems, according to sources, turning a drone into “a useless piece of iron and plastic.”

Drones, which armies began using as weapons about 10 years ago, have completely changed the situation on the battlefield, where the soldier is gradually being squeezed out as the main combat unit.

Reconnaissance and attack, things that earlier were impossible to do without direct human involvement, can now be done by robots. From the outside, drones look like mini …