AMAZING: Air Force to deploy ground-based lasers..

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Air Force to deploy ground-based lasers in first field test of ‘directed energy’ weapon

The Air Force announced Friday it will soon deploy two ground-based laser weapons to an undisclosed location to test how they can be used against small drones, the service’s first “operational field test” of an experimental “directed energy” weapon.

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Air Force to deploy ground-based lasers in first field test of ‘directed energy’ weapon

On Friday, the Air Force announced a $23 million sole-source contract for two of Raytheon’s High Energy Laser Weapons Systems, through which the systems are to be tested for 12 months in an undisclosed “contested environment” outside the continental