Saturday, December 21, 2013

Army’s New Laser Weapon Can Shoot Down Mortars and Drones - ABC News

Army’s New Laser Weapon Can Shoot Down Mortars and Drones - ABC News: "The Army has successfully tested a futuristic laser weapon capable of shooting football-sized mortar rounds and unmanned drones out of the sky.  The truck-mounted weapon, known as the High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD) is still about a decade away from becoming an operational part of the Army’s arsenal, but gives a hint at what a weapon of the future could look like.

The Army tested its HEL MD laser at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico for nearly six weeks starting in mid-November.  The device was equipped with a 10-kilowatt solid state laser and a radar system mounted atop a heavy truck."

If one of the first people to test this didn't say "I'm a' firin' mah lazer!" in their head, they didn't do it right.

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