{"id":1174,"date":"2025-11-22T15:51:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T15:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2025\/11\/22\/dragonfire-laser-weapon-engages-high-speed-drones-in-latest-test\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T15:51:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T15:51:54","slug":"dragonfire-laser-weapon-engages-high-speed-drones-in-latest-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2025\/11\/22\/dragonfire-laser-weapon-engages-high-speed-drones-in-latest-test\/","title":{"rendered":"DragonFire Laser Weapon Engages High Speed Drones in Latest Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DragonFireContract_1-460x259.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"DragonFire Laser Weapon Royal Navy\" \/>The DragonFire system successfully shot down drones travelling at up to 650km\/h at a range in Scotland, just as a \u00a3316m contract for its deployment on a Type 45 destroyer by 2027 was awarded. The DragonFire laser directed energy weapon (LDEW) has been in development by a consortium of companies and agencies since at least [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DragonFire system successfully shot down drones travelling at up to 650km\/h at a range in Scotland, just as a \u00a3316m contract for its deployment on a Type 45 destroyer by 2027 was awarded. The DragonFire laser directed energy weapon (LDEW) has been in development by a consortium of companies and agencies since at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}