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Default Boeing's portable drone-killing laser

Ground hogs and Prairie dogs won't have a chance.

Martin

On 8/28/2015 8:47 AM, Ed Huntress wrote:
Here it is, the latest laser toy from Boeing, designed specifically to
set drones on fi

http://www.wired.com/2015/08/welcome...-laser-cannon/

It's a 2kW laser that's controlled by a standard Xbox 360 and a
laptop. Although the article doesn't say so, it's probably powered by
an off-the-shelf IPG fiber laser, like the big laser cannons that are
being deployed on US ships.

Every kid in America is going to ask for one for Christmas. g