The 5 Minute Debrief: Giant "laser" to cost $1 mil……actually, just $1 to fire

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"I have an urgent and horrifying news story.....Cannonball Laser!" A new laser system has been used aboard the U.S.S. Ponce designed to target and destroy small planes and UAVs with a beam of directed energy. The U.S. Navy released a video of one of the successful tests, of which there are said to have been 12 to date. Directed energy weapons (DEW) have been in development for decades – a breakthrough in the technology has always been "3 to 5 years away" but it now seems like real...

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