Boeing's Matrix laser

The year 2009 was a busy time for pronouncements of progress with laser weapons. Here, in May of that year, a small UAV gets zapped by a high-energy laser beam in Boeing's Matrix (Mobile Active Targeting Resource for Integrated eXperiments) project; all told, five UAVs were tracked and shot down at various ranges, Boeing said. Matrix was a trailer-mounted "test bed" that Boeing developed for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory.