Watch this US Navy ship destroy a flying drone with a laser weapon
The USS Portland disabled a flying drone with a “solid state laser” in the Pacific Ocean.
Videos showed the Northrup Grumman-developed 150-kilowatt-class Laser Weapon System Demonstrator (LWSD) destroying the drone.
“With this new advanced capability, we are redefining war at sea for the Navy,” a Navy official said in a press release.
A US Navy ship downed a flying drone with a “solid state laser” in the Pacific Ocean, the service branch announced on Friday.
The USS Portland (LPD-27), a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship,
deployed its Technology Maturation Laser Weapon System Demonstrator (LWSD) against an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) last week during a demonstration,
the first such use of a high-energy class solid-state laser, the Navy said.
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