{"id":17898,"date":"2015-09-28T04:46:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T11:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/this-company-is-building-drones-with-lasers-on-top"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:35:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:35:56","slug":"this-company-is-building-drones-with-lasers-on-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/this-company-is-building-drones-with-lasers-on-top","title":{"rendered":"This Company Is Building Drones With Lasers On Top"},"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\/D0DbgNju2wE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Say hello to the drones of the future. They\u2019re gorgeous, sophisticated, and they\u2019ve got high-energy lasers.<\/p>\n<p>The body of the drone will look familiar to those who are familiar with current drones as those lasers will be riding shotgun\u2013quite literally\u2013on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2015\/09\/drones-armed-high-energy-lasers-may-arrive-2017\/121583\/?&utm_term=*Situation%20Report\" target=\"_blank\">General Atomics Aeronautical Systems<\/a>\u2019s Avenger. The company, also responsible for the Reaper, is embarking on a privately-funded study to figure out how to incorporate 150-kilowatt solid-state laser onto the drone, according to an interview with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2015\/09\/drones-armed-high-energy-lasers-may-arrive-2017\/121583\/?&utm_term=*Situation%20Report\" target=\"_blank\"> Defenseone<\/a>. Depending on the success of the study, the company is hoping to have the laser drones up and running by 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, the funding for this program is enough to figure out if it\u2019s possible, and if so, how to create a laser that\u2019s compatible with the Avenger.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecnmag.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/next-generation-drone-weaponry-might-include-lasers?et_cid=4839392&et_rid=493529418&type=cta\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say hello to the drones of the future. They\u2019re gorgeous, sophisticated, and they\u2019ve got high-energy lasers. The body of the drone will look familiar to those who are familiar with current drones as those lasers will be riding shotgun\u2013quite literally\u2013on General Atomics Aeronautical Systems\u2019s Avenger. The company, also responsible for the Reaper, is embarking on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17898","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\/377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64064,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17898\/revisions\/64064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}