US Military Technology


After decades of research and development, the U.S. military is officially using laser weapons in combat zones overseas.

The U.S. Army recently disclosed that the service had not only deployed a pair of 20-kilowatt palletized high-energy laser (P-HEL) systems—built on Virginia-based defense contractor BlueHalo’s Locust Laser Weapon System—abroad to protect U.S. troops from hostile drones in recent months, but that those systems had proven successful against incoming threats in the Middle East in the first-ever use of laser weapons in combat.
 
 

Air-launched SM-6.

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