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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @07:22AM
What part of "proof of concept" do you not understand?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @07:55AM
Concepts are too hard. Show me a video or I don't get it.
(Score: 4, Funny) by mtrycz on Tuesday September 01 2015, @12:08PM
A car analogy would be fine, too.
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(Score: 2) by bugamn on Thursday September 03 2015, @09:30PM
It's like a foot. You can step on a toy car, but not on a real car.