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Türkiye reveals new laser weapon. Drones in the crosshairs.

Türkiye's first live laser shoot-down of a UAV, demonstrated under the Tolga anti-drone system during Ateş Serbest-2026, is less about the beam than about the industrial claim behind it: a domestically built directed-energy layer entering the counter-drone stack. For procurement professionals, the signal is that laser effectors are moving from laboratory demonstrations into exercise-certified systems, and that a NATO member with a proven drone export industry now intends to field and likely market this capability. We read it as a competitive marker for the short-range counter-UAS market rather than a proven operational answer.