LDEW

English Noun en military en laser-directed energy weapon. en energy weapon en 2024-01-20 Mike Merritt Fired from Scots isle, laser gun that can hit a £1 coin from half a mile Daily Mail 22 DragonFire, a laser-directed energy weapon (LDEW), achieved the first UK firing of a high-power laser against an aerial target. en 2024-03-14 Tom Porter Britain shows off a laser weapon that could take out drones for as little as $13 Business Insider US The UK’s Ministry of Defence has released new footage of its laser weapon DragonFire being tested. The video showed the laser-directed energy weapon, or LDEW, system successfully shooting an aerial target in tests off the coast of Scotland in January. en 21 January 2026 Tom Barton Janes https://www.janes.com/osint-insights/defence-news/defence/dimdex-2026-norinco-reveals-more-details-on-laser-weapons-unveils-new-atgm China's Norinco sent its OW5-A50 counter-unmanned aerial vehicle (C-UAV) laser directed energy weapon (LDEW) to a local defence exhibition in Oman on 10 October 2025, a company business development manager told Janes at the DIMDEX 2026 defence exhibition held from 19 to 22 January. https://web.archive.org/web/20260417210457/https://www.janes.com/osint-insights/defence-news/defence/dimdex-2026-norinco-reveals-more-details-on-laser-weapons-unveils-new-atgm 17 April 2026 Further reading Directed-energy weapon