Navy Set To Deploy Terrifying Solid State Weapon--Against Us? (video and pictures)

NO MORE EXPENSIVE, PESKY MISSILES. nO MORE MILLIION DOLLAR AIR TO AIR/GROUND FLYING FALLIC SYMBOLS. nOW OUR AIRCCRAFT WILL BE OUTFITTED WITH  150 KILOWAT LASERS. 

You get fried from the sky.

Friggin’ laser beams.

That’s the new toy the Navy gets to play with soon, as the solid-state Laser Weapon System isscheduled to deploy on at least one ship in the Persian Gulf by this summer. It’s designed to fight what the Navy calls “asymmetrical threats” — unmanned aerial drones, speed boats laden with explosives, swarms of smaller ships like missile boats and patrol craft, and tuxedo-wearing British men in jetpacks.

Here’s a video of that weapons system in action. (You can probably skip the second half of the video, which is mainly some truly terrible CGI work.) MOREHERE

This baby is a lot smaller than earlier versions, which means it is easily mounted on aircraft. 

 The goal of the HELLADS (High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System) program is to develop a 150 kilowatt (kW) laser weapon system that is ten times smaller and lighter than current lasers of similar power, enabling integration onto tactical aircraft to defend against and defeat ground threats. With a weight goal of less than five kilograms per kilowatt, and volume of three cubic meters for the laser system, HELLADS seeks to enable high-energy lasers to be integrated onto tactical aircraft, significantly increasing engagement ranges compared to ground-based systems.

The program has completed laboratory testing of a fundamental building block for HELLADS, a single laser module that successfully demonstrated the ability to achieve high power and beam quality from a significantly lighter and smaller laser. The program is now in the final development phase where a second laser module will be built and combined with the first module to generate 150 kW of power MOREHERE