{"id":8344,"date":"2015-09-24T16:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=8344"},"modified":"2015-09-24T16:00:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T21:00:20","slug":"drones-armed-with-high-energy-lasers-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/24\/drones-armed-with-high-energy-lasers-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Buck Rogers Eat Your Heart Out! Drones Armed with High Energy Lasers Coming Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"headline\">\n<div class=\"d1-title-container\">\n<div class=\"d1-subhead-container\">\n<p class=\"d1-subhead\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/D0DbgNju2wE\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/D0DbgNju2wE<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"d1-subhead\"><span class=\"outer\"><span class=\"inner\"><span class=\"inner-inner\">Predator maker looks beyond Hellfire missiles to the weapons of the future.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p><strong>Flying military robots armed with high-energy <\/strong>lasers? It\u2019s a future that is exciting, terrifying \u2014 and perhaps just two years\u00a0away.<\/p>\n<p>General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., or <span class=\"caps\">GA<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"caps\">ASI<\/span>, \u00a0the San Diego-based company that makes the Predator and Reaper drones, is undertaking a privately funded study to integrate a 150-kilowatt solid-state laser onto its Avenger (n\u00e9e Predator-C) drone. If the company succeeds, a drone with a high-energy laser will be a reality at some point in 2017, company executives told<em>Defense\u00a0One.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re funded right now to develop a laser module compatible with the aircraft and study putting it on the Avenger,\u201d Michael Perry, Vice President for Mission Systems at <span class=\"caps\">GA<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"caps\">ASI<\/span>, told<em>Defense One<\/em>. \u201cWe hope to be funded to do that,\u201d he\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"defenseone-instream-ad\" class=\"ad ad-defenseone-instream hidemobile hidetablet\">\u00a0Read the Remainder at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2015\/09\/drones-armed-high-energy-lasers-may-arrive-2017\/121583\/?oref=defenseone_today_nl\">Defense One<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Predator maker looks beyond Hellfire missiles to the weapons of the future. Flying military robots armed with high-energy lasers? It\u2019s a future that is exciting, terrifying \u2014 and perhaps just two years\u00a0away. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., or GA&#8211;ASI, \u00a0the San Diego-based company that makes the Predator and Reaper drones, is undertaking a privately funded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2280,74,2086,65,1898],"tags":[2281,1558,2282],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}