Advances in pulse-laser systems yield scaleable weapons
Credit: JOINT NONLETHAL WEAPONS DIRECTORATE
The first high-energy lasers on 21st-century battlefields may not be giant weapons like the 747-mounted Airborne Laser, but much smaller, even portable units. Advanced solid-state weapons use complex laser-plasma interactions to achieve lethal or non-lethal effects at will and do not require the...
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