Army Achieves New High-Powered Laser Weapon Breakthrough
Warrior Maven
Oct 6, 2020
by Kris Osborn - Warrior Maven
(Washington D.C.) Firing lasers from fighter jets while in combat, hitting enemy hypersonic missiles in space and incinerating enemy drones from armored combat vehicles are all missions intended for fast-emerging, now-in-development laser weapons.
Lasers, and many laser technologies such as rangefinders and spotters are of course already used in many applications, including deployed Navy ships. At the same time, the Pentagon and military services are moving quickly to develop newer, stronger, more-mobile laser weapons. Much of this includes “laser scaling†and “size, weight and power†improvements intended to engineer lasers able to arm fighter jets and even destroy enemy ICBMs in space.
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