USAF still trying to figure if its worthwhile to fit laser weapon on KC-135

The director of U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation Office has an update on plans to install high-powered lasers on various platforms and he mentioned that putting it on the KC-135 is “still in the infancy stage.”

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Tom Lockhart said his people recently met officials from Air Mobility Command to identify an area to mount a pod for the laser and the next step is to figure out if that make sense.