The Pentagon’s $465 Million Laser Bet: Chasing the Swarm in an Era of Asymmetric Warfare
WASHINGTON — In a high-stakes pivot toward directed-energy combat, the U.S. Army has awarded defense contractor AeroVironment a landmark $464.8 million contract. The objective is as urgent as it is ambitious: to design, build, and deploy an advanced laser cannon engineered to solve a structural vulnerability that decades of heavy missile spending have failed to…
