Beam them down: Why armies are using laser weapons to zap things out of the sky

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Beam them down: Why armies are using laser weapons to zap things out of the sky

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Why armies are using laser weapons to zap things out of the sky
They’re good drone-killers
ARMIES HAVE dreamt of firing laser weapons for a long time. A lab funded by America’s Defence Department demonstrated one in 1960. But decades of development failed to produce a practical weapon,…

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