The US military has begun deploying high-energy lasers in the Strait of Hormuz to counter drone threats in the region. Soldiers are using modified Xbox game console controllers to operate these advanced systems. This development highlights the ongoing efforts to enhance military capabilities in the Middle East amid rising tensions.
Donald Trump’s Department of War confirmed it was destroying “drones and incoming cruise missiles at a much lower cost than using more expensive kinetic weapons like missiles, according to a report by The New York Post .
“We can very specifically track and target drones and put the spot exactly where we want it, [in order] to disable its sensors or kill [explode] the drone itself,” Mark Neice, president of Directed Energy Consultants, was quoted as saying by The New York Post. The US military is of the opinion that when the gaming industry has figured out the best controller, “why reinvent the wheel with a specialised control system where you can just use an Xbox controller or something really similar to do the job, according to the report. Who is behind the newsletter Laser Wars, it “makes sense” now to take out the laser weapons in an outside environment rather than caging them in a laboratory, according to Jared Keller.
You can, conceivably, not have to worry about ammunition stockpiles. It can change military logistics quite a bit.”
Brent Ziarnick, a senior fellow in defence studies at the American Foreign Policy Council, told The New York Post, “Put enough energy through them and it’s possible to have a very good defensive system.
