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The Army’s laser locust just shrank into a drone hunter on wheels

The U.S. Army’s latest laser weapon is no longer a bulky science project strapped to a shipping pallet. It has been squeezed ...

The US Army's formerly bulky laser weapon, Locust, is now a mobile drone-killer

The US Army is now mounting defense contractor AeroVironment's second-generation Locust Laser Weapon System on some of its ...
The New York Times

Locust Swarms Could Expand Their Range in a Hotter, Stormier World

The crop-devouring pests love arid conditions and the occasional downpour. Global warming is offering more of both. By Raymond Zhong Rising temperatures could expand the area of the globe under threat ...
Mashable

Why today's biblical locust swarms can't be stopped

In 1937, aboard slowly-moving trains, the Army National Guard used flamethrowers in an attempt to quell a relentless plague of locusts crossing through Colorado. But the flamethrowers failed. And so ...