Highway to the Laser Drone

🎶 Ride into the danger zone 🎶

An artist’s rendering of an MQ-9B SkyGuardian drone disabling several attack drones with an integrated laser weapon pod. (General Atomics)

A major American defense contractor is charting a new course for airborne laser weapons.

In an exhibition at the Navy League’s annual Sea-Air-Space symposium in National Harbor, Maryland earlier this month, defense pri…