Boeing Debuts Its Portable Drone Killing Laser

If you’re an enemy on the ground with a rifle, the chance of you taking out a drone is impossible. Even with rockets, a drone is tough to take down if you don’t have technology advanced enough to take it down. Boeing has been researching and developing ways to bring down to disable drones lately, and recently, the defense contractor debuted footage of its new Compact Laser Weapons System.

The Compact Laser Weapons System is a portable, tripod-mounted device that can actually burn a hole in the drone in seconds. I’m sure that this system could probably bring down more than just a drone if it has the ability to burn a hole into a drone from the ground with a laser.

“There will be times where it makes sense to use a missile and there will be times where it makes sense to use a laser,” Boeing’s lasers and optical systems director David DeYoung told

This isn’t the first time we’ve been teased with this type of Star Trek laser technology: Boeing’s airborne 747-mounted laser gave us our first glimpse of this technology, but was eventually scrapped in 2002. Since this laser is smaller than that laser, it probably means this laser will only be taking down the drones that fly over areas like the White House.

(Via Boeing)

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