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from the do-not-examine-laser-with-remaining-good-eye dept.
Boeing thinks the best way to kill a drone is to zap it with a precision laser, burn a hole in it, and bring it down. So it created a weapon system to do just that. Wednesday morning, the company showed off its Compact Laser Weapon System for media in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It’s a much smaller, significantly more portable version of the High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD) Boeing demonstrated last year. This setup looks like an overgrown camera, swiveling around on a tripod.
Instead of a massive laser mounted on a dedicated truck, the compact system is small enough to fit in four suitcase-sized boxes and can be set up by a pair of soldiers or technicians in just a few minutes. The new system is more scalpel than sledgehammer. Its laser, and, especially, the off-the-shelf gimbal (a fancy motor that can aim the laser and camera in any direction) it’s mounted on, make it precise enough to target different parts of a UAV.
Original Submission
(Score: 3, Touché) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday September 01 2015, @01:21PM
Step 1: Create scary unmanned aircraft that spies and/or kills you which instills fear and panic.
Step 2: Create laser to destroy said aircraft.
step 3: Profit!
(Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Tuesday September 01 2015, @04:09PM
You forgot step 3: "????"
(Score:1^½, Radical)
(Score: 1) by redneckmother on Tuesday September 01 2015, @07:51PM
See DannyB's comment (below).
Mas cerveza por favor.