{"id":97736,"date":"2019-10-23T07:02:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T14:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/us-air-force-gets-its-first-anti-drone-laser-weapon-from-raytheon"},"modified":"2019-10-23T07:02:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T14:02:54","slug":"us-air-force-gets-its-first-anti-drone-laser-weapon-from-raytheon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/us-air-force-gets-its-first-anti-drone-laser-weapon-from-raytheon","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force gets its first anti-drone laser weapon from Raytheon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raytheon has <a href=\"http:\/\/raytheon.mediaroom.com\/2019-10-22-Raytheon-delivers-first-laser-counter-UAS-System-to-U-S-Air-Force\">delivered<\/a> the first anti-drone buggy to the US Air Force, just over year after it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/03\/22\/raytheon-anti-drone-buggy-test\/\">introduced<\/a> the technology. It\u2019s a high-energy laser system mounted on a small all-terrain vehicle, to be specific, which uses electro-optical\/infrared sensors to detect and track drones. After it identifies and tracks the unwelcome flying device, it then neutralizes it with its laser in a process that takes a few seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raytheon has delivered the first anti-drone buggy to the US Air Force, just over year after it introduced the technology. It\u2019s a high-energy laser system mounted on a small all-terrain vehicle, to be specific, which uses electro-optical\/infrared sensors to detect and track drones. After it identifies and tracks the unwelcome flying device, it then neutralizes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97736","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}