Army Demonstration Advances Directed Energy System
LAS CRUCES, N.M., May 25, 2022 — With an advancement to the U.S. Army’s Directed Energy Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense (DE M-SHORAD) system, a team led by Raytheon Intelligence and Space, and by Kord, a subsidiary of KBR, defeated multiple 60-mm mortar rounds with a 50-kW-class high-energy laser integrated on a Stryker combat vehicle. The demonstration spanned four weeks of continuous live-fire exercises, in which the directed energy weapon system acquired, tracked, targeted, and defeated the mortars and