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Army Moves Ahead With Mobile Laser Weapon System Demonstrator

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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

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By Ann Roosevelt Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) is moving forward toward a mobile speed-of-light laser weapon system that could, late in the next decade, potentially become part of the Army's battlefield systems. The driving force for the program is: "Getting a laser capability into the soldiers hands and providing a level of force protection specifically against the counter rocket artillery and mortar threat," Bill Gnacek, SMDC program manager for the High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator (HEL TD),…

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