Sci-fi authors and gamers have long imagined this day, and now it has come: The U.S. military is developing a laser weapon to shoot enemy drones out of the sky.
The Navy has already developed such a weapon that it plans to deploy on a ship later this summer. The Office of Naval Research (ONR), based in Arlington, Virginia, announced this week that they are now interested in developing a similarlaser weapon for ground vehicles.
The somewhat ominously named GBAD program (short for Ground-Based Air Defense Directed Energy On-the-Move) aims to provide “an affordable alternative to traditional firepower” to guard against unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that could track or target U.S. Marines on the ground, ONR officials said.
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- Ukraine is getting a new type of laser-guided bomb that can pummel 'soft' Russian targets, analyst sayson April 25, 2024 at 5:54 am
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- Minsk developing its own laser weapons on ‘new physical principles,’ Belarusian Defense Ministry claimson April 24, 2024 at 6:48 am
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