This weekend, the Pentagon, in collaboration with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), is set to carry out tests on a high-energy anti-drone laser system in New Mexico. The primary objectives of these tests are to alleviate the FAA's safety apprehensions, gather crucial data on how the laser physically impacts aircraft surrogates, validate the automatic safety shutdown system's functionality, and furnish vital information for analyzing eye safety for the crew. Notably, this move comes in the wake of an incident where the U.S. military inadvertently downed a government drone, prompting subsequent modifications to no-fly zone protocols in the affected area.
