The Air Force's Air Combat and Special Operations commands are seeking to determine how to balance their efforts to put a laser on both a fighter jet and a gunship in the 2020s, as ACC ponders how directed energy might play into its Penetrating Counterair concept in the next few years. Gen. James Holmes, the new head of Air Combat Command, said March 29 at Booz Allen Hamilton's Directed Energy Summit in Washington the Air Force is considering whether to...
