What We Know About the Army’s New Enduring High Energy Laser Weapon

The new E-HEL effort signals a shift from experimental prototypes to field-ready firepower.

A US Army 50 kilowatt Stryker-mounted Directed Energy Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense (DE M-SHORAD) laser weapon system. (US Army photo)

The US Army appears closer than ever to launching its first official directed energy program of record — a major milestone in the service’s decades-long quest to field battlefield-ready laser weapons.

Laser Wars was fir…