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14.10.26 - 21:12
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Can Lasers Beat Drone Swarms? The Pentagon Is About To Find Out (ZeroHedge)
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Can Lasers Beat Drone Swarms? The Pentagon Is About To Find Out
Authored by Alex Kimani via OilPrice,
The enormous expansion of drone warfare is forcing militaries to reconsider how much ammunition they can afford to fire at relatively cheap targets. The Pentagon is betting that some of that ammunition can be replaced with electricity, selecting four directed-energy systems for operational testing at five U.S. military bases.
The Pentagon selected AeroVironment's (NASDAQ: AVAV) Palletized High-Energy Laser, Boeing's (NYSE: BA) Compact Laser Weapon System, Kord Technologies' Firefly high-energy laser and Epirus' Leonidas high-powered microwave. The three lasers concentrate energy on individual targets, while Leonidas uses microwave energy to disable electronics and can engage multiple drones.
Fort Bliss in Texas, Naval Base Kitsap in Washington, Fort Huachuca in Arizona, Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota and Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri will host the weapons. Congress mandat...
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10.10.26 - 01:51
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War Department Expands Use Of High-Energy Laser And Microwave Capabilities (ZeroHedge)
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War Department Expands Use Of High-Energy Laser And Microwave Capabilities
Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times,
The Department of War (DOW) has announced the selection of four high-energy laser and high-powered microwave systems to expand its operational capabilities across the United States.
The directed-energy systems were selected following a counter-drone pilot program by the Joint Interagency Task Force 401, according to an Oct. 5 DOW statement.
"High-energy lasers and high-powered microwave systems are tools that can be effectively used in a layered drone defense," said U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Matt Ross, director of the task force.
"This pilot program will test these capabilities in an operational environment so we can understand how best to integrate and sustain them to defend the homeland," Ross said.
The four systems selected for the pilot are laser weapon systems from defense companies Boeing, Kord, and AeroVironment, and a microwave system from Epirus.
The pilot program ...
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