India has conducted a successful trial of the land version of a vehicle-mounted directed energy weapon (DEW), the country’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said. The demonstration took place in Andhra Pradesh’s Kurnool on Sunday. The weapon used high-power laser to bring down several unmanned drones at a range of around 3.5km (2.1 miles), officials told local media. Directed energy weapons use ‘focused electromagnetic energy to engage and neutralise threats’, according to th