The Most Powerful Laser Weapon in Development
Towards the end of 2021, the United States government awarded Boeing and General Atomics a joint contract to create a prototype for a weapon that could potentially revolutionize national defense. In the last decade, the military tested several 30-kilowatt laser weapons, but this new enterprise sought to develop a laser device that was ten times as powerful. It is expected that Boeing and General Atomics will soon demonstrate the concept of a 300-kilowatt-class solid-state Distributed Gain High Energy Laser Weapon System, just in time given the recent trials that China has carried out with hypersonic weapons…
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