alt Hacker NewsWasn’t this the exact sort of reason we were developing laser weapons? I thought at least one US Navy ship was equipped with one now.
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citrin_ru • yesterday at 4:13 PM
From what I see in news both the US and the UK are using expensive missiles to shut down Shahed drones and laser weapons are not mentioned at all - either they are too rare or not yet working reliably enough to risk letting a drone to get withing the range or laser weapons (which I assume is smaller than for missiles).
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The US Navy has been experimenting with laser weapons but none of them are really operational for air defense yet.
https://www.militarytimes.com/industry/techwatch/2026/03/31/...