Jared Keller

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JUST IN: The Pentagon Wants to More Than Double Its Directed Energy R&D Budget The directed energy and high-energy laser weapon R&D line items in the US Defense Department's fiscal year 2027 budget request total $952 million, up from $442 million in fiscal year 2026. Most notably, the Pentagon is requesting $452 million *alone* for directed energy projects directly related to the 'Golden Dome for America' missile shield. See the breakdown in the Laser Wars table below and SUBSCRIBE: laserwars.net

Would it be crazy if I launched a subsection of Laser Wars called 'Infinite Magazine' for outside contributors to write about futuristic defense tech?

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⚡️ Watch Rare Footage of a US Military Laser Weapon Shooting Down a Drone in 1973 The U.S. military shot a drone out of the sky with a 'Project Delta' laser weapon developed by the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) on November 13, 1973 at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. Footage of the shootdown would not become public until 1986, when it aired on a February 20 episode of Polish science TV series 'Sonda," which aired on Telewizja Polska S.A. between 1977 and 1989. Read more here: laserwars.substack.com/p/project-delt… Watch the entire 'Sonda' episode here: youtu.be/HvDBlyzMQuE

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NEW: The Pentagon wants to field directed energy weapons like high-energy laser at scale within the next 36 months laserwars.net/p/us-military-…

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Lasers Aren't Fucking Magic, People With all the increasing hype surrounding high-energy laser weapons as low cost-per-shot solutions for drone attacks, here's a reminder of their limitations. Take a look at the footage below of US Marines testing a 5 kilowatt Compact Laser Weapon System (CLaWS) in the US Central Command area of operations back in January 2021. Note just how long it takes the system to actually disable its target once the beam makes contact -- at least 15 seconds, if not more. No instant kill like your favorite sci-fi ray gun. Laser weapons require sustained dwell time to inflict catastrophic damage on a target, a significant challenge when those targets are moving fast and engaged in evasive maneuvers. Now imagine that there are 100 of these drones attacking at the same time. Laser weapons have undeniable potential for point defense, but the current continuous wave systems that militaries are exploring are generally not suited for saturation attacks like drone swarms As I previously wrote: lasers do not defeat targets by expending discrete rounds, but by occupying time -- and time, in combat, is always finite laserwars.net/p/laser-weapon… [Video source: @DVIDSHub dvidshub.net/video/790860/m…]

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Congratulations to @NYPost on doing such a shitty write-through of Army Recognition that they couldn't even get the name of the system correct EVEN THOUGH IT'S WRITTEN IN THE HEADLINE nypost.com/2026/03/04/wor…

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One of the biggest hype points about high-energy laser weapons is that they have an "infinite magazine" Here's why that's actually misleading laserwars.net/p/laser-weapon…

Tired: Transporting a nuclear reactor by C-17 Wired: Transporting a pod of dolphins by C-17

Live footage of me trawling through DVIDS in search of art for upcoming editions of @laserwarsHQ

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