DARPA’s Aerial Laser Network Could Power Autonomous Warfare

Energy web network concept

DARPA envisions aerial relays in a future energy web network flying at 60,000 ft.

Credit: DARPA concept
"Logistics wins wars" is a timeless maxim. For more than 100 years, those logistics have been based on shipping petroleum fuels to power aircraft, tanks and ships. DARPA thinks it can move vital warfighting energy around the battlefield a bit faster—at the speed of light. The research and...
Garrett Reim

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