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Army Pushing Right To Repair Laser Weapons, Moving To Interoperability At Manufacturing Stage

Thursday, August 7th, 2025

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Army Pushing Right To Repair Laser Weapons, Moving To Interoperability At Manufacturing Stage

DE M-SHORAD (Photo by U.S. Army) (Jim Kendall)

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Two Army officials Wednesday emphasized they are trying to shift tested laser and directed energy weapons into versions that can be manufactured en masse but in a way that enables right to repair and maintenance by soldiers in the field. “From a prototyping perspective, with the Enduring High Energy Laser [HEL], we are attempting to design the complexity out of these systems, and we're using our previous deployed systems, our previously delivered systems, to help do that,…

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