“Israel has conducted the first known combat usage of a high-powered laser weapon, shooting down kamikaze drones launched by Hezbollah from Lebanon.
A video of the interception was released by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, demonstrating how the laser system was able to lock onto a moving aerial target and destroy it in a matter of seconds.
The drone seemed to be a compact, fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a traditional design, resembling the Iranian-made Ababil-T or other one-way attack drones often employed by Hezbollah.
“Israel is the first nation in the world to turn high-power laser technology into a fully operational system — and to carry out real combat interceptions,” said Dr. Yuval Steinitz, Chairman of Rafael.
