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Tuesday, August 03, 2010

DRDO’s next: Star Wars-like weapons

DRDOMove aside Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker, DRDO is trying to develop its own set of Star Wars-like weapons.

From laser dazzlers to control rioting crowds to high-powered lasers to destroy incoming missiles, DRDO is working on a slew of directed energy weapons (DEWs).

"Lasers are weapons of the future. We can, for instance, use laser beams to shoot down an enemy missile in its boost or terminal phase,'' said DRDO's Laser Science & Technology Centre (LASTEC) director Anil Kumar Maini, talking to TOI on Monday.

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