{"id":1987,"date":"2009-11-24T00:30:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T08:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=1987"},"modified":"2009-11-23T21:02:31","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T05:02:31","slug":"boeing-downs-uavs-with-lasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/24\/boeing-downs-uavs-with-lasers\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Downs UAVs with Lasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing, which has been\u00a0emphasizing advanced\u00a0technologies and weapon systems, recently\u00a0announced that it had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2009\/11\/18\/Boeing-UAVs-downed-with-laser-beams\/UPI-62651258587630\/\">shot down small UAVs<\/a> with vehicle-mounted lasers.\u00a0 (Boeing was also responsible for the airborne tactical laser that recently <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/12\/us-air-force-aircraft-fires-phasers\/\">fired at ground targets<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The system was under test by the US Air Force at the Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, CA.<\/p>\n<p>The system experimentation serves two purposes:\u00a0 <!--more-->it creates a potential defensive technology for US forces, but it also helps identify vulnerabilities of friendly UAVs.\u00a0 When a new system is developed and fielded, it is common practice to figure out how to defeat one&#8217;s own best weapon.\u00a0 After all, that is precisely what the adversary is trying to do.\u00a0 The objective is to beat him to the answer, and then figure out how to minimize or eliminate the potential vulnerability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing, which has been\u00a0emphasizing advanced\u00a0technologies and weapon systems, recently\u00a0announced that it had shot down small UAVs with vehicle-mounted lasers.\u00a0 (Boeing was also responsible for the airborne tactical laser that recently fired at ground targets.) The system was under test by the US Air Force at the Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, CA. The system experimentation serves two purposes:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13,2,53],"class_list":["post-1987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-military","tag-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}