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US Navy’s powerful new laser weapon vaporizes drone threats at sea

The U.S. Navy has quietly crossed a threshold that once belonged to science fiction, using a high energy laser to burn ...
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USS Preble’s HELIOS laser hit four drones and exposed the Navy’s power problem

“This is my goal: If it’s in line of sight of a ship, the first solution that we’re using is directed energy.” This is a quote by Adm. Daryl Caudle, and it sums up the reason the U.S. Navy destroyer ...