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Navy Unveils World's First Active Laser Weapon In Persian Gulf |
2017-07-19 |
[ZeroHedge] Three months ago we introduced China's "silent hunter" experimental laser gun, and now, as CNN reports, in the waters of the Persian Gulf looms the US Navy's first - in fact, the world's first - active laser weapon. Now let us demonstrate the power of this fully armed and operational battle station! 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. For the test, the USS Ponce crew launched the target -- a drone aircraft. Immediately, the weapons team zeroed in.That slap you heard was the collective sphincters slamming shut from the Iranian speedboat operators. LaWS begins with an advantage no other weapon ever invented comes even close to matching. It moves, by definition, at the speed of light. For comparison, that is 50,000 times the speed of an incoming ICBM. "It is throwing massive amounts of photons at an incoming object," said Lt. Cale Hughes, laser weapons system officer.Suddenly sinking drones, missiles and annoying speedboats became cheap. Say when, Iran. |
Posted by:DarthVader |
#5 Wouldn't it be amusing if Israel bought a few... |
Posted by: trailing wife 2017-07-19 17:13 |
#4 Batteries ? |
Posted by: Besoeker 2017-07-19 16:16 |
#3 Army's drone killing lasers getting a ten fold power boost This is the 21st century I was promised! |
Posted by: DarthVader 2017-07-19 14:19 |
#2 @#1: The laser-equipped sharks take care of those. |
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2017-07-19 13:52 |
#1 How's it do against supercavitating torpedoes? |
Posted by: gorb 2017-07-19 13:44 |