high energy lasers
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US Air Force Wants To Put Lasers On Fighter Jets By 2021, Bringing Us One Step Closer To Star Wars
The US Air Force’s scientific research wing is giving Lockheed Martin $US26.3 million ($34.3 million) “for the design, development, and production of a high power fibre laser” which it expects to start testing on a tactical fighter jet in four years. Sounds cool and certainly futuristic, but the jury’s still out on whether these weapons…