High Powered Lasers to Become Latest Development in Drone Warfare

‘The United States has been a leader in drone warfare for years, but the Pentagon is about to step it up a notch further by adding high-powered lasers to its most lethal drones.

As reported by Defense One, the futuristic-sounding concept may be just two away as developers are already hard at work on the project. General Atomics Aeronautics Systems, Inc., (GA-ASI) a San Diego-based firm that manufactures the military’s popular Predator and Reaper drones, is launching a privately funded study to integrate a 150-kilowatt solid-state laser onto an Avenger (Predator-C) drone. If successful, drones outfitted with high-energy lasers could become a reality by 2017, the company told Defense One.’

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