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The tests are part of a rapid effort by the U.S. government to develop an answer to small drones, which are increasingly being used by terror groups and drug cartels. The staggering demand — hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of funding for research, in contrast to the relatively cheap cost of small consumer drones — has already created a private economy to produce counter-drone technology for the military, involving dozens of aerospace and defense companies. In the current fiscal yea...

Operations. i dont believe we would have seen hardly any vehicles be damaged if we would have the ability to bring in aircraft and redirect the fire. >> first responders say they are only seeing an increase in dangerous incidents with drones. and they need a way to fight back both in the interest of the public safety and their own. there are companies making technology to do just that. >> that red light means i am now disrupting all of the drones that are in about a 30-degree arc in front of of ...

Aircraft out of the air. >> according to the department of interior over 40 drone incidents were reported near wildfires. this fire torched over two dozen vehicles on the hoy. >> we had drone operations that forced us to shut down air operations. i dont believe we would of seen hardly any vehicles damaged if we had the ability to bring in aircraft to redirect the fire. >> first responders say they only see a increase in dangerous incidents with drones. they need a way to fight back. also for the...

Seg apartment damage and pick one of the aircraft out of the air. >> according to the department of the interior, last year, there were over 40 reported drone incidents near wildfires. in 2015, californias north fire torched nearly 2 dozen vehicles on a major highway in san bernardino county. >> we had drone operations that actually forced us to shut down all of our air operations. i dont believe we would have seen hardly any vehicles be damaged if we had the ability to bring in aircraft and red...

Of warfare. ainsley: drone killer. >> drone killer. made by former lockheed martin volunteers same technology used to detect north koreas blisms. repurposeed to detect drones from up to a mile away. transmitter that will fire a radio frequency energy. steve: not a laser. nothing comes shooting out of that other than beams of sound. >> exactly. its a drone gun without any bullets. actually transmitting radio frequencies to essentially jam the signal of that drone as it is flying in the air. you c...

The drone-killer. >> reporter: in a sometimes hostile waters of the persian gulf looms the u.s. navys first, in fact, the worlds first, active laser weapon. the lws, an acronym for laser weapon system, is not science fiction, it is not experimental. it is deployed on board the "uss poncee" amphibious transport ship, ready to be fired today and every day at targets by captain christopher wells and his crew. cnn was granted exclusive access to a live-fire test of the laser. >> its more precise tha...