Defence companies are accelerating plans to develop low-cost, high-energy laser weapons as militaries around the world look for ways to counter cheap new missile threats such as drones.
Some of the world’s best-known contractors, including RTX in the US and Europe’s MBDA, as well as Britain’s QinetiQ, are investing heavily in the cutting-edge technology — long regarded as more science fiction than reality.
The race to deploy the weapons, whose laser beams cut through metal and…
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