Blasting the Air in Front of Hypersonic Vehicles with Lasers Reduces Drag (2020) (twz.com)

You've seen bright LED high beams, but wait until laser wiper deckout kits are available on eBay

From 2020.

Love the optimism that AGM-183A Would be in production in 2022.

Narrator: they would not.

I researched plasma drag reduction for normal vehicles at one point and the primary issue is that it just costs too much power (disregarding that it slightly ionizes the paint job). I did not, however, consider using short-burst lasers beams on their (fricking) headlamps. Added to the ‘not street legal, pending cheap+sufficient supercapacitor storage’ wishlist :)