{"id":4944,"date":"2026-08-04T15:48:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=4944"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:48:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:48:05","slug":"landmark-deal-would-officially-add-laser-weapons-to-us-army-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=4944","title":{"rendered":"Landmark Deal Would Officially Add Laser Weapons to US Army Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>They stuffed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2010\/09\/missile-beats-flying-lightsaber-in-crucial-test\/\" class=\"text link\">real-life ray gun into a 747<\/a> to shoot down ballistic missiles and stuck a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2005\/11\/bomb\/\" class=\"text link\">laser on top of a Humvee<\/a> to zap roadside bombs. For more than 50 years, the United States military and its researchers have tried to develop laser weapons. None of them panned out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">But now, the US Army is about to make a working laser weapon an official part of its arsenal. The Pentagon is poised to sign a contract to acquire and rapidly deploy what\u2019s called an <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.laserwars.net\/p\/army-enduring-high-energy-laser-weapon-rfi\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.laserwars.net\/p\/army-enduring-high-energy-laser-weapon-rfi&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.laserwars.net\/p\/army-enduring-high-energy-laser-weapon-rfi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Enduring High Energy Laser<\/a> in and around bases across the world to defend them from drone attacks, according to sources familiar with the matter. The official announcement could come as early as this week. When the deal is signed, it will mark the first time that the US military will have committed to equipping its forces with laser weapons in significant numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cFor years, lasers were going to be the future, and they never really came to their own. Now, they&#8217;re actually coming to their own,\u201d Mark J. Lewis, the former Air Force chief scientist, tells WIRED.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The Iran and Ukraine wars have shown that drones are now so cheap, so plentiful, and so deadly that they&#8217;re impossible to stop with any single countermeasure. Some of the traditional ones have been particularly clunky. During the early days of the Iran conflict, the US even resorted to firing <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/19\/us\/politics\/pentagon-weapons-drones-iran-war-hegseth.html\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/19\/us\/politics\/pentagon-weapons-drones-iran-war-hegseth.html&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/19\/us\/politics\/pentagon-weapons-drones-iran-war-hegseth.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$4 million Patriot missiles at $35,000 Iranian drones<\/a>\u2014a waste of money, and a move that depleted the American interceptor stockpile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Modern lasers, on the other hand, never run out of ammunition. \u201cBasically, you can keep firing them as long as you&#8217;ve got power,\u201d Lewis says. \u201cThere are some other issues with lasers, including how rapidly you can refire and recharge. But if you solve those problems, then suddenly you&#8217;ve got a pretty nifty way to help counteract things like a drone swarm attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">That\u2019s one reason why the US military, at this moment, has either deployed or is actively testing <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.laserwars.net\/p\/us-military-laser-weapons-programs-list\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.laserwars.net\/p\/us-military-laser-weapons-programs-list&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.laserwars.net\/p\/us-military-laser-weapons-programs-list\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a half-dozen laser weapons systems<\/a>, according to the <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.laserwars.net\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.laserwars.net\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.laserwars.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laser Wars<\/a> newsletter. The Navy has installed laser \u201c<a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.laserwars.net\/p\/us-military-laser-weapons-programs-list?open=false#%C2%A7optical-dazzling-interdictor-navy-odin\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.laserwars.net\/p\/us-military-laser-weapons-programs-list?open=false#%C2%A7optical-dazzling-interdictor-navy-odin&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.laserwars.net\/p\/us-military-laser-weapons-programs-list?open=false#%C2%A7optical-dazzling-interdictor-navy-odin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dazzlers<\/a>\u201d on two of its ships to blind drones\u2019 electro-optical sensors. The Air Force\u2019s command for Europe and Africa has sent Boeing\u2019s Compact Laser Weapons System \u201c<a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.usafe.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/4552085\/usafe-afafrica-strengthens-defense-through-layered-integrated-counter-uas-appro\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.usafe.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/4552085\/usafe-afafrica-strengthens-defense-through-layered-integrated-counter-uas-appro\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usafe.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/4552085\/usafe-afafrica-strengthens-defense-through-layered-integrated-counter-uas-appro\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to locations across the theater<\/a>.\u201d In late June, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth traveled to the Army\u2019s test range in <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.laserwars.net\/p\/hegseth-military-laser-weapon-demonstration\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.laserwars.net\/p\/hegseth-military-laser-weapon-demonstration&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.laserwars.net\/p\/hegseth-military-laser-weapon-demonstration\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">White Sands, New Mexico<\/a>, for a demonstration of all sorts of directed-energy weapon projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The deployments haven\u2019t all gone great. Four vehicles equipped with Raytheon air-defense lasers were <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.laserwars.net\/i\/157728964\/directed-energy-maneuver-short-range-air-defense-de-mshorad\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.laserwars.net\/i\/157728964\/directed-energy-maneuver-short-range-air-defense-de-mshorad&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.laserwars.net\/i\/157728964\/directed-energy-maneuver-short-range-air-defense-de-mshorad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">yanked from the Middle East<\/a> after poor reviews from soldiers. One laser, built by the defense contractor AeroVironment and positioned along the southern US border, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-el-paso-no-fly-debacle-is-just-the-beginning-of-the-drone-defense-mess\/\" class=\"text link\">accidentally zapped a party balloon<\/a> in February, causing the Federal Aviation Administration to briefly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-el-paso-no-fly-debacle-is-just-the-beginning-of-the-drone-defense-mess\/\" class=\"text link\">close the airspace around El Paso, Texas<\/a>. Once it was reopened, the laser <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/military-laser-border-drone-texas-airport-55aaab7093f7d6dd174f909f3875001c\" class=\"text link\">shot down a Border Patrol drone<\/a> by mistake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Despite such mishaps, the Army appears ready to go beyond the one-offs and the experiments. In fact, in some ways, the accidental kill helped make the case for the laser, proving it could actually take out such a drone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The Pentagon and its suppliers had been scrambling to field something, anything to defend against mass-produced, low-cost attack drones. They\u2019ve rolled out radio frequency jammers, microwave weapons, an array of missiles, drones designed to kill other drones, even copies of the Iranian robots. None of them in isolation have been enough. On March 1, an Iranian drone <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/07\/12\/survivors-iranian-attack-that-killed-6-us-troops-say-generals-ignored-warnings\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/07\/12\/survivors-iranian-attack-that-killed-6-us-troops-say-generals-ignored-warnings\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/07\/12\/survivors-iranian-attack-that-killed-6-us-troops-say-generals-ignored-warnings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">killed six US service members and injured 30 others<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/landmark-deal-would-officially-add-laser-weapons-to-us-army-arsenal\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They stuffed a real-life ray gun into a 747 to shoot down ballistic missiles and stuck a laser on top of a Humvee to zap roadside bombs. For more than 50 years, the United States military and its researchers have tried to develop laser weapons. None of them panned out. But now, the US Army [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1099,848,379,1097,439,741,1098],"class_list":["post-4944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-army","tag-drones","tag-iran","tag-lasers","tag-military","tag-military-tech","tag-weapons-and-ammo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Landmark Deal Would Officially Add Laser Weapons to US Army Arsenal - Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Facing a growing drone threat, the Pentagon is poised to sign a first-of-its-kind contract for \u201cEnduring High Energy Lasers\u201d\u2014and make directed energy weapons an official part of the Army\u2019s kit.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=4944\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Landmark Deal Would Officially Add Laser Weapons to US Army Arsenal - 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