The Navy's silent drone destroyer is this ridiculously powerful laser

It's no surprise that the U.S. Navy has a massive suite of high-tech weapons. But the looming threat of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, has forced the Navy to put some of its prowess into an unexpected weapon — a laser.

The Navy's new Laser Weapon System (LaWS) is essentially a silent ray gun that brings a huge wrath onto electronic targets of all kinds, namely drones.

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The USS Ponce is the first ship and crew to put LaWS into action, and CNN recently witnessed the weapon firsthand. Essentially, it works like most laser pointers, just on a massive scale.  Read more...

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