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Lockheed Martin plans to make its most powerful military laser yet, 500 kilowatts (www.popsci.com)
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Lockheed Martin plans to make its most powerful military laser yet, 500 kilowatts::The planned laser will be in the 500-kilowatt range. Weapons like these can defend a ship or base against drones or other projectiles.

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[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lasers like this are mostly useful as defensive weapons. They are good at shooting incoming artillery shells, missiles, and small drones. They don't have the range to be an effective offensive weapon. Kinetic effectors dominate there.

If these existed today, many fewer Ukrainian civilians would be dead from Russian drones and missiles.