The US army has tested a laser gun.
The US military first tested the laser weapon of the land forces of the country can adopt by the year 2025.
According to the U.S. publication defense News, the experts carried out field testing of high-energy laser mobile install the High Energy Laser Mobile Truck Test (HELMTT) during training maneuvers on the base of Fort Sill in Oklahoma.
The weapon is a laser gun for 10 kW, placed on a heavy eight-wheel armored truck.
It is known that the installation is able to “detect, track and destroy both ground and air targets”.
HELMTT program is administered by the army space and missile defense.
The military is also developing a lightweight laser gun installation of 2 kW in an armored personnel carrier Stryker, who are armed mechanized brigades of the U.S. army.
