Air Force still studying options for short-term laser demo on mobility aircraft

By Rachel Cohen / March 16, 2018 at 11:22 AM
The Air Force will continue fleshing out a path to add lasers to mobility aircraft after considering demonstrating a laser weapon on a range of those platforms last year, one of the service's research chiefs said this week. Jeff Stanley, the Air Force's deputy assistant secretary for science, technology and engineering, told Inside the Air Force March 15 one takeaway from a recent directed-energy summit was to keep studying whether a flexible laser pod prototype can meet the needs of...

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