The laser is designed to unleash “enormous power” in a fraction of the time a regular laser weapon lasts.
The weapon should have the ability to fry a target’s electronics with an electromagnetic pulse.
The U.S. Army wants to develop a new laser weapon that is more powerful than existing weapons by nearly three orders of magnitude, but lasts just a fraction as long.
The service posted a notice for the prospective new weapon at the Pentagon’s Small Business Investment Research website, calling the weapon the Tactical Ultrashort Pulsed Laser for Army Platforms. The Army believes it can merely aim the laser at a drone to both damage it