After Israel put the first real high-power laser cannon into operation against drones, the rest of the West woke up to a silent race: the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and even India are now competing to see who delivers the weapon that can take down aerial targets kilometers away, spending only a few cents per shot.
There is a new problem keeping the military awake: the cheap drone. Small, sold for a few hundred dollars, and capable of arriving in swarms, they have inverted the logic of air defense. It doesn’t…