The Trump Administration is advancing plans to use a high-power microwave weapon as part of its efforts to target purported drug smuggling boats on the high seas.
Lockheed Martin would help the Coast Guard develop such a device that would be compact enough to fit on small vessels under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement “to augment its drug and human trafficking interdiction missions,” according to a Monday post in the Federal Register. The technology damages electronics in its targets.
The notice is the latest example of the Trump administration pursuing high-power microwave weapons and other advanced technologies, such as ...