Air Force to deploy ground-based lasers in first field test of ‘directed energy’ weapon
The military says the systems will be tested to see how they perform against small drones.
By Aaron Gregg
August 2 at 6:56 PM
The Air Force announced Friday it will soon deploy two ground-based laser weapons to an undisclosed location to test how they can be used against small drones, the service’s first “operational field test†of an experimental “directed energy†weapon.
On Friday afternoon, the Air Force announced a $23 million sole-source contract for two of Raytheon’s High Energy Laser Weapons Systems, through which the systems are to be tested for 12 months in an undisclosed “contested environment†outside the continental United States.
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