{"id":57929,"date":"2024-12-13T09:37:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T09:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/british-army-zaps-drones-out-of-the-sky-with-laser-trucks\/"},"modified":"2024-12-13T09:37:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T09:37:40","slug":"british-army-zaps-drones-out-of-the-sky-with-laser-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/british-army-zaps-drones-out-of-the-sky-with-laser-trucks\/","title":{"rendered":"British Army zaps drones out of the sky with laser trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The British Army has successfully destroyed flying drones for the first time using a high-energy laser mounted on an armored vehicle. If perfected, the technology could form an effective counter-measure against drone attacks.<\/p>\n

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced that soldiers from 16 Royal Artillery had conducted tests against flying targets \u2013 although the word it used was “hovering” \u2013 at the Radnor Range in mid-Wales.<\/p>\n

This latest development follows the first firing of the laser weapon from a British Army combat vehicle at a Porton Down firing range, operated by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), earlier this year.<\/p>\n