Israel have unveiled the world's first laser-based interception system that can shoot down enemy missiles and drones for just $2 per blast.
The £413million Light Shield - also known as Iron Beam - fires beams of light with between 100kW and 150kW of energy at targets several kilometres away with pinpoint accuracy.
Now, after completing development and passing its final tests, the state-of-the-art weapon, which 'never runs out of ammo', has officially been declared operational.
After being in development for over a decade, the cutting edge weapon will be delivered to the military by the end of this year.
Taking to X to share the game-changing achievement, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett posted a clip of the Light Shield in action, blasting enemy drones out of the sky.
'For the first time ever, our new Light Shield laser defence system successfully shut down dozens of enemy UAVs, using only a beam of light,' he said. 
The £413million Light Shield - also known as Iron Beam - fires beams of light with between 100kW and 150kW of energy at targets several kilometres away with pinpoint accuracy
Describing how the technology works, Bennett explained that the moment an incoming threat, such as a rocket, drone, or UAV, is detected, a high energy laser locks on and destroys it in mid-air within around two seconds.
'When a missile is coming in, hundreds of micro lasers are fired at once towards that missile, and then a very clever algorithm identifies which one of them hit the target and then tells all the other laser beams to redirect and then the full laser power hits that exact point.
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