USAF Contracts With Lockheed Martin to Deploy Lasers On Fighter Jets by 2025 Written 16 November 2020
Artist's impression of an airborne laser | Lockheed Martin; Aerospace America
IGN reported that “the U.S. Air Force is working with aerospace defense firm Lockheed Martin to deploy lasers on fighter jets by 2025” under the program name “SHiELD” for “Self-Protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator.” The program envisages “a pod-mounted laser on the fuselage or wing of a fighter jet designed to shoot down incoming air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles.”
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