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Under the name Project Endurance, Darpa, the Department of Defence’s research agency, awarded Northrop Grumman $14.6 million (£9.1 million) and Lockheed Martin $11.4 million (£7.1 million) in contracts for the effort, according to Military & Aerospace Electronics. Called “Project Endurance,” the research will “develop technology for pod-mounted lasers to protect a variety of airbourne platforms from emerging and legacy electro-optical IR guided surface-to-air missiles,” according to Darpa’s 2014 budget request. (via Darpa plans to arm drones with missile-blasting lasers (Wired UK))
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