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A ship-mounted laser called Locust just went to sea — a directed-energy gun built to burn drones and small boats before they reach the hull
Somewhere in the Atlantic this spring, the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush pointed a laser at an incoming drone and ...
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What we know about the US military's new joint laser weapon system
The Army-Navy effort aims to produce a containerized 150-kilowatt high-energy laser weapon to counter incoming cruise missiles.
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The Pentagon is now fielding laser and microwave weapons at five US bases — directed-energy defenses built to fry attacking drone swarms out of the sky
Somewhere on the wind-scoured prairie of Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, the U.S. military is installing weapons ...
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Laser energy weapon training begins for US Navy to effectively blind unmanned aerial threats
Sailors in the U.S. Navy are set to receive certified training for operating and ...
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US Navy Trained First Sailors at New ‘Laser Lab’
The US Navy has invested heavily in the “ODIN,” an anti-drone laser—and is beginning to train its sailors on how to use it.
A new pilot program will install “high-energy lasers and high-powered microwave systems” at major bases around the U.S.
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Pentagon tests Locust laser that downs drones without harming nearby civilian aircraft
AeroVironment’s LOCUST laser weapon recently finished a major counter-drone test with the Pentagon and ...
The Army-Navy effort aims to produce a containerized 150 kilowatt high-energy laser weapon to counter incoming cruise missiles. This article is republished with permission from Laser Wars, a ...
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The US military wants a fleet of missile-killing laser drones
The U.S. military is once again pursuing flying directed energy weapons to counter threats to American airspace.
The U.S. military has a message for America’s directed energy industry: it’s time to build. In a written posture statement submitted to the House Armed Services Committee ahead of a hearing on the U.S ...
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