Inside a ‘first of its kind’ counter-drone laser test in the American desert

Inside a ‘first of its kind’ counter-drone laser test in the American desert

Earlier this month, an aircraft was approaching the Albuquerque airport, miles and miles and miles away from where a group of government officials had gotten together to test a secretive military laser in the New Mexico desert. The high-energy laser was locked on to a simulated threat at White Sands Missile Range during what officials described as a “first of its kind” evaluation, “holding track” on its target when — unclear to testers in the mo…