The US Military is Testing an Autonomous Laser Sentry Turret

Enter the Archimedes Laser Sentinel.

A technologist from Aurelius Systems compares quadcopters with and without laser damage at the Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) quarterly Joint Interagency Field Experimentation (JIFX) event at Camp Roberts in California on Feb. 5, 2025. (US Navy/Daniel Linehan)

The US military has tested a laser weapon system mounted on an autonomous sentry turret duri…