The company sees its lasers someday deployed on ships or tanks, small enough to be mobile but strong enough to down a UAV or perhaps even knock incoming artillery or RPGs out of the air. More near term, it wants to get its direct-diodes on the back of fighter jets to confuse--or perhaps even destroy--incoming anti-aircraft missiles. And TeraDiode isn't just talking a big game it seems--the company told Xconomy that testing on the aircraft defense system could begin in a year, with deployment in three to five years.