Military Details's video: This New US Army s Stryker Laser Weapon Can Destroy Russian Helicopter in a minute

Using a New Army Strykers a vehicle-fired 50kW laser weapon, recently destroyed incoming mortar fire and drones, breaking new ground with the quickly emerging High Energy Laser weapon that can increasingly widen the strike envelope for ground units facing hostile air attacks. A moving armored formation, such as a moving Stryker Infantry Brigade Combat Team closing with an opponent, is clearly at danger from drone strikes, precision artillery, helicopter weaponry, fixed-wing threats, and mortar fire. Yet, after 15 years of counterinsurgency in the War on Terror, many Army ground war leaders came to the unsettling reality that the US Army's Cold War Air Defense readiness had significantly "atrophied" while fighting in situations with little to no air threat.