Israel wants to shoot down incoming drones and rockets with lasers well before they approach their targets.
Credit: Elbit Systems
Airborne laser weapons are getting another chance. Operational practicalities doomed chemical-based laser technology more than 15 years ago that was developed for the Boeing 747 and Lockheed AC-130. About a decade later, the power limitations of slab-based planar waveguide devices ruined attempts to...
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