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An unmanned system designed to project, focus, or deliver various forms of directed energy—lasers, microwaves, particle beams, plasma—against targets. The term is deliberately broad, encompassing any drone that fights with energy rather than kinetics. Energy directed drones represent the next generation of warfare: platforms that can engage at light speed, adjust power on the fly, and keep fighting as long as power lasts. They combine the persistence of drones with the precision of directed energy, creating systems that can loiter for hours then strike in microseconds. The category includes systems that exist (laser drones), systems that may exist (microwave drones), and systems that might exist someday (particle beam drones)—all sharing the same basic architecture: energy in, effects out.
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