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How the Pentagon Is Preparing For the Coming Drone Wars


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Mobile high-energy laser weapon

Raytheon has mounted a high-energy laser weapon on top of a militarized dune buggy that it says can be used to take out drones.

Credit: Raytheon

More than a decade after the improvised explosive device became the scourge of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon is battling another relatively rudimentary device that threatens to wreak havoc on American troops: the drone.

From The Washington Post
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