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General Atomics has confirmed the existence of a new airborne laser program being developed for the U.S. military's fleet of ...

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British Army soldiers successfully tracked, targeted and destroyed swarms of small drones in the latest test of a Directed ...

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The locally produced laser weapon demonstrated its capability to ... artillery nor to armour but to drones. Similarly, space capacities in the low earth orbit are transforming military ...

This provides the British Army the ability to take out a large number of drones within a short space of time and ... Wolfhound mounted Laser Directed Energy Weapon (LDEW) during a live fire ...

A model of BlueHalo's palletised Locust laser weapon system at the Navy League Sea-Air-Space exhibition in April 2025. (BlueHalo) BlueHalo displayed a mock-up of its Locust laser weapon system at ...

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