{"id":104915,"date":"2020-04-07T08:02:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T15:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/the-air-force-just-fielded-its-first-high-energy-laser-weapon-overseas"},"modified":"2020-04-07T08:02:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T15:02:51","slug":"the-air-force-just-fielded-its-first-high-energy-laser-weapon-overseas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/the-air-force-just-fielded-its-first-high-energy-laser-weapon-overseas","title":{"rendered":"The Air Force just fielded its first high-energy laser weapon overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-air-force-just-fielded-its-first-high-energy-laser-weapon-overseas3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, has delivered what it says is the Air Force\u2019s first high-energy laser weapon for battlefield use against drones.<\/p>\n<p>AFRL has set up the laser weapon system overseas for a 12-month field assessment. The Air Force Strategic Development Planning &amp; Experimentation (SDPE) Office located at Wright-Patt is leading the project, AFRL said in a statement Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, has delivered what it says is the Air Force\u2019s first high-energy laser weapon for battlefield use against drones. AFRL has set up the laser weapon system overseas for a 12-month field assessment. The Air Force Strategic Development Planning &amp; Experimentation (SDPE) Office located [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}