A Stryker carried a 50-kW laser for shooting down a range of small, fast-moving threats as part of the Army’s Directed-Energy Maneuver–Short-Range Air Defense program.
Credit: Jim Kendall/U.S. Army
In an era of proliferating threats from drones, rockets, artillery and mortars, a mobile, affordable and easily maintainable high-energy laser could solve a lot of the U.S. Army’s problems. But it does not exist yet. The Army is already gaining experience from a 50-kW laser newly mounted on a...
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