{"id":16742,"date":"2015-08-29T10:30:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T17:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/boeings-new-laser-canon-can-destroy-drones-in-mid-flight"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:45:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:45:09","slug":"boeings-new-laser-canon-can-destroy-drones-in-mid-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/boeings-new-laser-canon-can-destroy-drones-in-mid-flight","title":{"rendered":"Boeing\u2019s new laser canon can destroy drones in mid-flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ijp3-zjTIp0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Drones are everywhere these days. They\u2019re at your local park, they\u2019re <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2015\/08\/26\/drone-submarine-navy-research-laboratory-fly-swim\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">in the ocean<\/a>, they\u2019re hovering over the White House lawn, and they may even be hovering overhead <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2015\/08\/27\/weaponized-drones-tasers-tear-gas-north-dakota\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">armed with tear gas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a world that\u2019s becoming increasingly drone friendly, there are some serious safety considerations that shouldn\u2019t be ignored.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, government and military officials have cautioned that drones might soon be outfitted with explosives or chemical weapons and flown into either public or sensitive spaces.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, Boeing recently developed a portable laser cannon that can eviscerate unwanted and pesky drones mid-flight. In the future, these types of lasers might be installed in all sorts of locations, including airports and sensitive military installations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/boeings-laser-canon-can-destroy-drones-2015-8?utm_content=buffer9d094&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drones are everywhere these days. They\u2019re at your local park, they\u2019re in the ocean, they\u2019re hovering over the White House lawn, and they may even be hovering overhead armed with tear gas. In a world that\u2019s becoming increasingly drone friendly, there are some serious safety considerations that shouldn\u2019t be ignored. Specifically, government and military officials [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,15,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-habitats","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16742","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64356,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16742\/revisions\/64356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}