Raytheon revealed its next-gen directed energy weapon at the Farnborough Air Show today. The video shows its Laser Weapons System (LaWS) -- a six-laser weapon that focuses on a single target -- engaging and then ROASTING an unmanned aerial vehicle from the deck of a Navy vessel at sea.
There are couple reason why this new weapon is awesome:
1) It's a solid-state laser, rather than a chemical laser, so it's not as hazardous to handle and it requires less energy to use.
2) It's smaller, which makes it more feasible to pack onto a naval vessel.
3) Raytheon demonstrated that a laser integrated into the Navy's Phalanx anti-missile defense system (a weapons system already mounted on many naval vessels ) can hit a moving target from the deck of a ship, which itself is moving and rolling along with the ocean.
Check out the destruction...
HOLY SHIT!!!!
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