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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – U.S. weapons maker Lockheed Martin and Israeli contractor Rafael have teamed up to create a high-energy laser weapon system, based on a technology already under development in Israel that could be market ready next year. The idea, the companies said on Monday, is to produce a version of the Iron Beam, which is a laser-based air defence system being developed separately by Rafael and Israel’s Ministry of Defense, geared towards the U.S. market and elsewhere. Iron Beam passed a series of tests in the last year that “proved the operational capability of the system”, they sai…