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ONR, 7 Contractors Move Ahead with JLTV-Based Laser Gun Demonstration

Defense Daily Staff

Monday, June 16th, 2014

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ONR, 7 Contractors Move Ahead with JLTV-Based Laser Gun Demonstration

This Office of Naval Research drawing of the GBAD laser weapon system depicts the three-truck system finding, processing and then attacking a UAV target. Image courtesy of ONR.

The Office of Naval Research has finished awarding contracts for its Ground-Based Air Defense Directed Energy On-the-Move (GBAD) laser weapon and has already begun demonstrations with surrogate parts, ONR program manager Lee Mastroianni said last week in an interview. The program, by necessity, is being conducted in stages. GBAD will eventually go atop a Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, which is still in production. And it will use the Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar to find and track targets, but G/ATOR is in…

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