Over the Nevada desert, an MQ-9A Reaper drone locked onto an airborne target, fired a 2.75-inch laser-guided rocket, and ...
For years, the U.S. military has faced an expensive and embarrassing math problem: adversaries can field swarms of drones ...
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MQ-9A gets more lethal with laser guided rockets

U.S. Air Force (USAF) and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems teamed up to conduct flight ...
An Air Force MQ-9 drone has downed aerial targets with a relatively inexpensive air-to-air missile, part of the Pentagon’s ...
Following the Belgian Air Force's announcement in March about the testing of Thales Belgium's laser guided rockets from its F ...
GA-ASI and the U.S. Air Force tested the MQ-9A Reaper with APKWS laser-guided rockets, firing at both air and ground targets ...
India’s government-run Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully test-fired a locally developed laser-guided anti-tank missile from an Arjun main battle tank (MBT) on 22 ...
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD - For more than a decade and a half, the Army’s Advanced Threat Infrared Countermeasure System ...
This story has been corrected. The U.S. Army has shelved its “Valkyrie” laser anti-missile system, shifting instead to the newer Joint Laser Weapon System, to be built with the Navy as part of the ...
Artist’s rendering of an MQ-9B SkyGuardian drone disabling several attack drones with an integrated laser weapon pod. (General Atomics) Editor’s note: This story originally appeared on Laser Wars, a ...