\u201cClearly, we can accelerate directed energy into our formations,\u201d said Thurgood, who as head\u00a0of the service\u2019s recently reorganized and beefed-up Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO, manages the service\u2019s most high-tech, high-priority programs: directed energy, space, and hypersonics. (More on hypersonics below). The Army\u2019s especially interested in taking out incoming rockets, artillery, mortar rounds, and small drones with electrically-powered weapons that cost pennies per shot instead of expensive one-use interceptors. But lasers and microwaves have real limits.<\/p>\n For example, they don\u2019t work well against swarms, where lots of small targets are converging on you at once. \u201dYou want to kill a swarm of things \u2014 whatever that thing is \u2014 lasers are not really a swarm-killing tool. They can kill things fast but they can\u2019t kill a swarm of things fast enough.\u201d<\/p>\n That said, he continued with a chuckle, \u201cif you\u2019re in my world, I\u2019m always thinking about Private Thurgood. Killing one thing is better than killing nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.breakingmedia.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/8E08B9D9-AACC-4686-A0E6-38505AD2992B-300x251.jpeg\")
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