How the U.S. military is preparing for laser attacks on drones

This article is republished with permission from Laser Wars , a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. military has spent billions of dollars over decades building high-energy laser weapons capable of burning drones out of the sky, but it has spent considerably less money and time exploring what happens when an adversary does the same thing. With China fielding a growing arsenal of laser weapons capable of killing drones at ranges up to 25 kilom