US Navy tweaks destroyer-based laser effort
Lockheed Martin is moving ahead with developing a laser weapon system for the US Navy but in a different sequence than originally planned, according to a company official.
Instead of building two units – one for land-based testing, the other for installation on a ship – Lockheed Martin will produce a single system that will be tested on land first, then moved to a destroyer.
‘We’re using the one system to do both,’ said Brendan Scanlon, Lockheed Martin’s HELIOS programme director. ‘We’re doing things [in] a little more serial manner.'
Scanlon attributed the change to reductions in how much money
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