100,000-Watt Iron Beam laser becomes world’s first drone defense zapper to be operationally deployed — it can also shoot down rockets, mortars, and other aerial threats

Rekall Incorporated@piefed.social · 4 days ago

100,000-Watt Iron Beam laser becomes world’s first drone defense zapper to be operationally deployed — it can also shoot down rockets, mortars, and other aerial threats

scholar@lemmy.world · 3 days ago

However the power requirements make them impractical for offensive applications and they can’t do much damage against concrete and the like, so there’s not much risk of harm if they were to become commonplace.

knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social · edit-2 2 days ago

Depends on the nature of the offensive application. I expect we’ll see them used for a mass blinding terror attack in my lifetime.