Posted on 09/01/2014 9:53:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Watch out, enemy drones. The U.S. military is developing laser weapons to smite you.
The Office of Naval Research announced last week that it is building a laser weapon that will be able to shoot down aerial drones, spelling big trouble for any enemy who tries to target the U.S. Marines.
GBAD – Ground-Based Air Defense Directed Energy On-the-Move – is a laser weapon designed to be installed on the Marines’ Humvees, Joint Light Tactical Vehicles and other light tactical ground vehicles.
Intended to provide an affordable alternative to traditional firepower, GBADs could prevent enemy drones from tracking and targeting Marines on the ground.
“We can expect that our adversaries will increasingly use UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), and our expeditionary forces must deal with that rising threat,” said Col. William Zamagni, acting head of the Office of Naval Research’s Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare and Combating Terrorism Department, in announcing plans for the new laser....
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Iran armed Hamas with rockets and was very interested in observing Iron Dome and Israeli defense tactics in action. However the Israelis never deployed the lasers, so the mullahs are still wondering if their ballistic missile counterattack will be successful. If its not, say goodbye to Iran’s nuclear infrastructure and with it the Islamic Republic which would collapse if an Israeli attack is successful.
Hmmm?
they don’t exist yet. why give it away?
Saw a version of this in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
Michael Bay must have inside info from the DoD.
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