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US President Joe Biden (L) listens to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he joins a meeting of the Israeli war cabinet in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

White House requesting funding for Israeli laser weapon, other military assistance

The 100-kilowatt laser is designed to intercept a wide range of threats such as rockets, artillery, mortars and drones.
U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Kevin Holdaway (left) and Cpl. Seth Silveira, low-altitude air-defense gunners with 2nd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion (LAAD), send an electronic signal to jam a drone with the Light Marine Air Defense Integrated System, or L-MADIS, at Marine Corps Outlying Landing Field Atlantic, North Carolina, Oct. 18, 2022. The L-MADIS is an electronic-attack system that counters unmanned-aircraft system by nonkinetic capabilities to destroy or negate aerial threats. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Servante R. Coba)

With RFP on the way, Marines are eyeing a variety of ‘non-kinetic’ counter-drone weapons

A request for proposals for MADIS Increment 1, Block 2 is tentatively scheduled to be released in late fourth quarter fiscal 2023 or early first quarter fiscal…
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