US Deploys Drone-Killing Microwave ‘Phaser’ Weapon to Middle East

US Deploys Drone-Killing Microwave ‘Phaser’ Weapon to Middle East
A truck loaded with the Chinese made drone, the ASN-207, takes part in a military parade on Oct. 1, 2009. Vincent Thian/AP
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The United States announced it will ship a prototype of Raytheon’s “Phaser” high-power microwave beam counter-drone system to Saudi Arabia for operational evaluation. But China, which has been developing “killer drones” over the last decade, has already exported over 160 to the Middle East and North Africa.