Competitors race to prove solid-state laser technology
Credit: NORTHROP GRUMMAN CONCEPT
"Can you bring a gunship to Kirtland?" That's how Rudy Martinez got involved in laser weapons. Martinez, then an operations officer, got permission to fly an AC-130 to Kirtland AFB, N.M., where the man who called showed him a classified weapon that would, he said, "revolutionize the gunship": a...
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