{"id":181461,"date":"2024-01-26T18:26:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T00:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/dragonfire-laser-weapon-achieves-uks-first-high-power-firing"},"modified":"2024-01-26T18:26:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T00:26:54","slug":"dragonfire-laser-weapon-achieves-uks-first-high-power-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/dragonfire-laser-weapon-achieves-uks-first-high-power-firing","title":{"rendered":"DragonFire laser weapon achieves UK\u2019s first high-power firing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dragonfire-laser-weapon-achieves-uks-first-high-power-firing3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The DragonFire laser-directed energy weapon (LDEW) system has achieved the UK\u2019s first high-power firing of a laser weapon against aerial targets during a trial at the MOD\u2019s Hebrides Range.<\/p>\n<p>The DragonFire is a line-of-sight weapon and can engage with any visible target, and its range is classified. The system is able to deliver a high-power <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/laser\/\">laser<\/a> over long ranges and requires precision equivalent to hitting a \u00a31 coin from a kilometer away.<\/p>\n<p>Laser-directed energy weapons are incredibly powerful and can engage targets at lightning-fast speeds. They use a concentrated beam of light to cut through their target, resulting in structural failure or other devastating outcomes if the warhead is targeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DragonFire laser-directed energy weapon (LDEW) system has achieved the UK\u2019s first high-power firing of a laser weapon against aerial targets during a trial at the MOD\u2019s Hebrides Range. The DragonFire is a line-of-sight weapon and can engage with any visible target, and its range is classified. The system is able to deliver a high-power [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181461","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=181461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}