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Apaches Zap Multiple Targets With First Helicopter-Mounted Laser

Wednesday, July 5th, 2017

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In a first for offensive directed-energy weapons, a laser-equipped AH-64 Apache attack helicopter successfully zapped and destroyed several targets during recent flight tests at White Sands Missile Range, N.M.The demonstration was the first time a laser was fully integrated on a rotorcraft and successfully engaged targets from a variety of flight maneuvers, speeds, altitudes, according to the Army’s Apache program office and U.S. Special Operations Command, which jointly hosted the demonstration.An Apache was outfitted with a variant of the Raytheon [RTN] multi-spectral…

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