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The U.S. has deployed a BlueHalo Locust laser weapon system that can shoot down drones with $3 of electricity, also known as “directed energy.”

From The Wall Street Journal

In addition, the long-range Shahed-style drones Moscow uses are now far more advanced—flying faster and higher, making them far more difficult for air-defense teams to shoot down.

From The Wall Street Journal

By shooting down four MiG-15s in a single fight, “Royce Williams had accomplished what no other American fighter pilot would ever accomplish,” Thomas McKelvey Cleaver wrote in a history of the Korean naval air campaign.”

From The Wall Street Journal

German lawmakers this year gave the police broader authority to shoot down drones if necessary.

From Barron's

The system is designed to shoot down long-range ballistic missiles that fly above the Earth's atmosphere.

From Barron's