United States tests laser weapons system
Ukrinform
The US Navy has successfully tested world's first laser weapons.
This is reported by the CNN channel.
The weapons were deployed on board the USS Ponce amphibious transport ship.
"It is more precise than a bullet," Captain Christopher Wells told CNN. "It's not a niche weapon system like some other weapons that we have throughout the military where it's only good against air contacts, or it's only good against surface targets, or it's only good against, you know, ground-based targets -- in this case this is a very versatile weapon, it can be used against a variety of targets."
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.
