Following Army, Air Force Tests ATHENA Laser That Can Destroy Multiple Drones
The Air Force recently tested Lockheed Martin's Advanced Test High Energy Asset anti-drone laser as Pentagon interest in emerging counter-drone technologies continues to grow.
The U.S. Air Force put ATHENA -- also the name of the Greek goddess of war -- through its paces, shooting down multiple Class 1 and 2 fixed-wing and rotary drones at a government-owned training range at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, the company said in a news release Thursday.
It marked the first time the service operated the system instead of Lockheed engineers, tracking targets with a military-owned command-and-control (C2) system.
"The radar track was provided to airmen who operated ATHENA via cues from the C2, then ATHENA's beam director slewed, acquired, tracked and defeated the drone with a high-energy laser," Lockheed said in the release.
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