Opinion: DRDO Is Now Flaunting ‘Star Wars’ Tech. But What About Conventional Weapons?

DRDO's Centre for High Energy Systems & Sciences conducts a field demonstration of its Mk-II(A) Laser-Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) system, in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, on April 13.

Source : PTI

With India taking baby steps into the creation of military theatre commands, the Defence Research and Development Organisation’s (DRDO’s) latest laser-based weapons system — an indigenously developed 30-kilowatt Mk-II(A) Laser-Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) system — is surely a shot in the arm of the Indian armed forces. The system is poised to give India ‘Star Wars capability’. However, with the government now focused on the modernisation of the armed forces,