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U.S. Military Is Using Laser Weapons In Battle
Prototype laser air defense systems deployed by the U.S. Army have taken out enemy drones in the Middle East, an Army official told Forbes.
Bad weather also degrades the effectiveness of the weapons that they’re meant to counter, notes Thomas Karr, who was the inaugural director of a Pentagon office set up to coordinate directed energy research from 2018 to 2020. Derided as Star Wars, until its cancelation in 1993, roughly $30 billion was spent to develop a system that included space-based lasers to blow up fast-moving Soviet ballistic missiles from thousands of miles away. Epirus CEO Any Lowery told Forbes it can throw up “a wall” of energy hundreds of yards out from a base’s perimeter to take down multiple drones simultaneously, functioning as the last line in a layered air defense, like a “hockey goalie.”
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