Boeing has shot down an incoming unmanned aerial vehicle using their new Laser Avenger system, which you can see in the picture. The Laser Avenger is mounted on the kinetic-based Avenger air defense system. However, no kinetic weapons were used in taking down the UAV. Tested at the White Sands Missile Range— a 3,200-square-mile rocket range in New Mexico, the largest military installation in the US—the Laser Avenger tracked three UAVs flying "against a complex background of mountains and desert", shooting down one of the UAVs.
Star Wars, here we go.
via gizmodo
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