
The Navy’s research agency successfully demonstrated a high-energy laser defeating a cruise-missile type target in recent months, the Navy said on April 13. The all-electric high-energy Lockheed Martin [LMT] Layered Laser Defense (LLD) system shot down the “target representing a subsonic cruise missile in flight” in February during a test conducted by the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The test occurred at the Army’s High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. This demonstration was a…