CNN: Exclusive: CNN witnesses US Navy's drone-killing laser
(CNN)In the sometimes hostile waters of the Persian Gulf looms the US Navy's first -- in fact, the world's first -- active laser weapon.
The LaWS, an acronym for Laser Weapons System, is not science fiction. It is not experimental. It is deployed on board the USS Ponce amphibious transport ship, ready to be fired at targets today and every day by Capt. Christopher Wells and his crew.
CNN was granted exclusive access to a live-fire test of the laser.
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Update #1: US Navy Tests Laser Weapons System in Persian Gulf -- Sputnik
Update #2: The US Navy Works Directed Energy Weapons -- Second Line Of Defense
WNU Editor: As I had mentioned in yesterday's post .... The Birth Of Laser Weapons (July 16, 2017) .... we are still far away from having these weapons generally deployed due to energy constraints, but this laser platform on the USS Ponce amphibious transport ship appears to be a winner and a promise of things to come.
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