{"id":52,"date":"2013-03-28T22:22:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T22:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/?p=52"},"modified":"2013-03-28T22:22:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T22:22:17","slug":"navy-wants-lasers-on-marines-trucks-to-shoot-down-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Navy Wants Lasers on Marines\u2019 Trucks to Shoot Down Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>BY\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/author\/spencer_ackerman\/\">SPENCER ACKERMAN<\/a><\/li>\n<li>03.28.13<\/li>\n<li>3:27 PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2013\/03\/marine-laser-drones\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2013\/03\/marine-laser-drones\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2013\/03\/marine-laser-drones\/carrier-qualification\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-106408\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Carrier Qualification.\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/images_blogs\/dangerroom\/2013\/03\/marinehumveegun.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"307\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Small spy drones beware: Navy geeks want the next gun mounted on a Marine Humvee to be a laser cannon, not this M-240G machine gun.\u00a0<em>Photo: U.S. Marine Corps<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If there was any doubt that the military has new confidence in its forthcoming laser arsenal, the Navy\u2019s top geeks want to outfit Marines with a laser cannon to shoot small drones out of the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the Office of Naval Research thinks that Marine air-ground task forces are too vulnerable to adversaries flying cheap, small spy drones overhead, like the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2011\/05\/handheld-spy-drone\/\">four-pound Raven<\/a>\u00a0the Marines themselves used in Iraq. Its answer: outfit Marine ground vehicles with laser guns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY\u00a0SPENCER ACKERMAN 03.28.13 3:27 PM \u00a0http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2013\/03\/marine-laser-drones\/ Small spy drones beware: Navy geeks want the next gun mounted on a Marine Humvee to be a laser cannon, not this M-240G machine gun.\u00a0Photo: U.S. Marine Corps If there was any doubt that the military has new confidence in its forthcoming laser arsenal, the Navy\u2019s top geeks want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}