The US Military Wants to Demonstrate Battle-Ready Laser Weapons in 2 Years

“We now have a suite of directed energy products that go from low-end to high-end, and now we have to scale production of those.”

A US Marine Corps High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle with a mounted laser beam director, assigned to Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren and Crane Division, participates in an exercise at Tactical Airfield in Arizona on April 4, 2024. (US Marine Corps photo/Cpl. Alejandro Fernandez)   

The US military is pushing to demonstrate high-energy laser…