U.S. Army Releases Performance Details As Laser Weapons Enter Service
The U.S. Army demonstrated a drone kill in 2025 using a laser weapon integrated into a Stryker vehicle at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Credit: Jim Kendall/ U.S. Army
The time has come for high-energy lasers. As the technology is deployed to defend troops and civilians, new details are shedding light, as it were, on what these photon-based defensive weapons can do—and what they cannot. A month after the first operational Rafael Iron Beam laser system was deployed...
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