SEOUL: South Korea will deploy laser weapons to shoot down North Korean drones this year, becoming the world’s first country to deploy and operate such weapons in the military, the country’s arms procurement agency said on Thursday.
The drone-zapping laser weapons the South Korean military has developed with Hanwha Aerospace are effective and cheap, with 2,000 won per shot, but quiet and invisible, the Defense Acquisition Program Administration said in a statement.
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North and South Korea have both violated the armistice that governs their shared border by sending drones into each other’s airspace, the United States has said.Countries including South Korea, China and the United Kingdom are racing to develop and deploy laser weapons, also known as directed energy weapons, according to a U.S. nonprofit think tank RAND Corporation.
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