Laser seedcase mounted on drones to shoot down missiles . Yeah , that ’s scientific discipline fiction warfare , right there . And that ’s exactly what the US armed forces want . The US just make Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman contracts to develop aircraft - mounted laser weapons to protect drones from getting hit by missile . Or make a lot of drones that can mould a shield with lasers .
DARPA pronounce technologist had been working to modernise “ scalable optical maser arm that are 10 times light and more compact than existing high - tycoon chemical optical maser system . ” Making laser like that is n’t just promiscuous and ride them to flying aircrafts make it even harder but … it ’s so much cooler .
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