Navy plans to fire laser weapons off of ships within a year
The US Navy is moving at warp speed to develop lasers with more lethality, precision and power sources as a way to destroy attacking missiles, drones, aircraft, and other threats.
"We're doing a lot more with lasers," Rear Adm. Ronald Boxall, director of the Surface Warfare Division, said earlier this month at the annual Surface Naval Association national symposium.
The Navy plans to fire a 150-kilowatt weapon off a test ship within a year, he said. "Then a year later, we'll have that on a carrier or a destroyer or both."...
