Navy Wants Lasers on Marines’ Trucks to Shoot Down Drones

Navy Wants Lasers on Marines’ Trucks to Shoot Down Drones

March 29th, 2013

Via: Wired:

If there was any doubt that the military has new confidence in its forthcoming laser arsenal, the Navy’s top geeks want to outfit Marines with a laser cannon to shoot small drones out of the sky.

Specifically, the Office of Naval Research thinks that Marine air-ground task forces are too vulnerable to adversaries flying cheap, small spy drones overhead, like the four-pound Raven the Marines themselves used in Iraq. Its answer: outfit Marine ground vehicles with laser guns.

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