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"Crazy Li" arms drones with powerful lasers that can cut through metal
Drones have another weapon in the arsenal thanks to "Crazy Li" Xiao: lasers. Not just lasers, but ones powerful enough to vaporize human tissue on contact and cut through metal.
" A squad of fully armed soldiers follow closely behind a Humvee armoured vehicle, cautiously advancing through the ruins of an urban battlefield. It paints a horribly descriptive picture of the potential of this new technology developed by researchers led by Li Xiao – who fittingly pens his email prefix "crazy.li" in his research paper – who have successfully tested the use of a 1 kilowatt, 1080 nanometer wavelength laser from a small drone. One of these collects the near-infrared laser light issued from a mobile ground station, and relays it to the other tube which reflects the powerful beam – "sufficient to cut through metal" according to Xiao – onto the target.
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