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UK Successfully Tests Dragonfire Laser AA Weapon
Highly accurate it can hit a coin-sized target at one kilometre, its range is secret but it ‘can engage with any visible target’
Some time ago I wrote about Israel’s Iron Beam directed energy weapon, transportable on a small trailer or patrol boat, flyable in a plane. Needing only electrical power and with a declared range of 7 km.
It was successfully tested on UAVs in 2020, but now it has been refined further and has successfully destroyed targets including mortar rounds, rockets and anti-tank missiles.
And now the UK has announced successful testing of its Dragonfire directed energy weapon.
During a trial at the MOD’s Hebrides Range, the DragonFire laser directed energy weapon (LDEW) system achieved the UK’s first high-power firing of a laser weapon against aerial targets. The range of DragonFire is classified, but it is a line-of-sight weapon and can engage with any visible target. — UK MOD
I’m going to examine the information that has been released and try to deduce some characteristics of the weapon.
