Army Mounts High Power Laser On Apache Heliocopter
Raytheon and the U.S. Army Apache Program Management Office, in collaboration with U.S. Special Operations Command, recently completed a successful flight test of a high energy laser system onboard an Apache AH-64 at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The demonstration marks the first time that a fully integrated laser system successfully engaged and fired on a target from a rotary-wing aircraft over a wide variety of flight regimes, altitudes and air speeds. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army (PRNewsfoto/Raytheon Company)
Lasers are abounding in military applications, and have been mounted on trucks, ships, airplanes, and now helicopters. This is Technocrats run amok as they invent and create because they can.
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