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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The Latest on: Laser Weapons
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The Latest on: Laser Weapons
- Could America's Newest Aircraft Carriers Have Laser Weapons?on February 3, 2020 at 4:09 pm
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- With laser weapons coming, the US Navy’s newest super carrier has space and power to spareon January 31, 2020 at 2:04 pm
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- Dutch man creates homemade 'laser rifle' that can burn paper from a distanceon January 31, 2020 at 12:16 am
An inventor in the Netherlands has created a gun that uses direct high-intensity heat through an infrared beam to light an intended target with a laser aiming sight. Footage from January 27 shows the ...
- Small Naval Warship to Receive Powerful Laser Weaponon January 30, 2020 at 8:00 pm
One of the smaller and newer vessels in the United States Navy fleet of warships is expected to receive a new powerful laser weapon system. The USS Little Rock is the latest ship to obtain laser ...
- Navy deploys submarine with new nuclear weaponon January 30, 2020 at 7:00 am
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- New Lasers Are Keeping The U.S. Navy At The Front Of The Packon January 30, 2020 at 1:00 am
Key Point: Today’s lasers lack the power and range to destroy large targets or do any damage at all at ranges farther than a few miles. The U.S. Navy apparently has installed a new laser cannon on one ...
- Israel Makes Major Breakthrough in Laser Weapons Technologyon January 28, 2020 at 2:17 pm
Perhaps a fighter plane capable of tremendous speed, and endowed with the ability to use lasers to destroy areal weapons in addition to being able to engage in combat. Brig. Gen. Yaniv Rotem at the ...
- According to Dr. Kaixuan Liu, Founder and Medical Director with Atlantic Spine Center, In Spinal Surgery, Lasers More Hype Than Hopeon January 28, 2020 at 6:00 am
WEST ORANGE, N.J., Jan. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- For Luke Skywalker, a laser sword proved the weapon-of-choice in his fight against the "Empire" in Star Wars, but, when it comes to battling ...
- Smart weapons Market Top key players and Forecasts 2016-2022on January 28, 2020 at 12:38 am
Smart weapons are those guided weapons that can strike a target with high precision even if it is mobile or stationary. The targets can be located with the help of guidance systems such as lasers, ...
- Could the Army One Day Use Lasers to Take out Enemy Cruise Missiles?on January 25, 2020 at 3:11 am
After decades of being confined to experimental prototypes and Star Wars movies, laser weapons today are on the verge of entering wide-scale service, whether in the hands of infantry, mounted on ...
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