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US Military to Arm Fighter Jets with Laser Turrets Jan 28th 2013, 22:03 Bogey on your six? DARPA can help with that. In what one can only assume is the first step towards developing a fully functional fleet of Star Destroyers, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has recently announced that it is looking to test fighter jets equipped with laser turrets as early as 2014. Lockheed Martin won the $9.5 million contract from DARPA and is currently working on phase three of the Aero-Adaptive/Aero-Optic Beam Control project, which would allow tactical aircraft to fire mounted lasers, through extreme turbulence, at enemies coming from behind. Continue reading… Media files: STO_HELLADS_2-610x408.jpg (image/jpeg)

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