The US Navy has deployed laser weapons
John F. Williams/U.S. Navy
The US Military is constructing a laser weapon greater than 1,000,000 occasions extra highly effective than any used earlier than – though as a result of it delivers brief pulses, the general vitality concerned is low.
Present laser weapons produce a steady beam that’s held on a goal, akin to a drone or missile, till it melts – the primary was deployed by the US Navy in 2014. The brand new weapon, often known as the Tactical Ultrashort Pulsed Laser for Army Platforms, could be extra like science-fiction film lasers, firing bullet-like pulses of sunshine. …
