Lockheed Martin has revealed that it delivered a compact directed energy weapon to the Air Force Research Lab in February.This is part of an effort to arm American fighters with laser weapons that can take out incoming anti-aircraft missiles and this development is being considered a key milestone.Tyler Griffin, a company executive told reports,“It is the smallest, lightest, high energy laser of its power class that Lockheed Martin has built to date. It is a critical benchmark in developing an operational laser weapon system in the airborne domain.”Griffin stated, “It’s one-sixth the size of what we produced for the Army going back to just 2017”, referring to the Robust Electric laser Initiative programIn this video Defense Updates analyzes how LANCE could be a game-changer for US Air Force?#DefenseUpdates #laserweapon #usairforce