Miles Parks

So welcome to the future.

But this is very unnerving for commercial aviation.

These lasers can cause real damage.

Yeah, no, these are weapons, Miles, and they can be used certainly against small drones, and they can take them out of the sky.

With the proliferation of drones, it raises the problem, how do you stop a drone swarm coming at you?

And it's hard to shoot each one out of the sky, or just it's very problematic.

So one of the countermeasures that's been developed is using lasers to strike them and shoot them down.

Now, against a small drone, these seem to work

pretty well.

What kind of damage would this inflict on a big aircraft or a plane?

Hard to say, but it could certainly blind the pilot.

It could cause some damage to a plane.

So this is going to be an issue.

And the fact that the U.S.

government, the Pentagon, Customs and Border Protection, the FAA, can't seem to get on the same page in terms of who's using it, what are they shooting at, what is the risk?

Yeah.

Chris Ray, Robert Mueller.

Exactly.

I don't see them in the locker room.

I was imagining.