Scared of drones? Then you should see the new weapon the US Navy hopes to use to knock them out of the sky. I'm talking about frickin' lasers here, folks.
After years of testing, the Navy says it's making final adjustments on a new prototype of a Laser Weapons System -- dubbed LaWS -- that will be deployed into the real world in late summer.
In tests over the past few years, LaWs has proven itself to be effective at using directed energy bursts to hit airborne targets, lighting them on fire and sending them to a dramatic final meeting with the desert or ocean floor. Next up, the system will be deployed aboard the U.S.S. Ponce for at-sea testing in the Persian Gulf.
In recent months, the Navy has been testing LaWS with existing weapons systems to see if they could successfully hand off tracking and targeting capability to the laser system. The results, according to a Navy release, have been positive:
"The result is a weapon system with a single laser weapon control console, manned by a surface warfare weapons officer aboard USS Ponce who can operate all functions of the laser -- and if commanded, fire the laser weapon."
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