Boeing Laser Avenger Shoots Down Incoming Enemy for the First Time

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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