If you wait long enough, the future finds you, and the future is here. According to multiple news sources, the Navy’s Laser Weapon System (LaWS) was tested on board USS PONCE (AFSB(I)-15, an interim afloat staging base (but to everyone else it looks a lot like USS PONCE (LPD-15), and has now been approved for combat, as authorized by CENTCOM. You have GOT to heck out the USNI article and video by clicking on the picture.
(Navy photo)
It’s getting more and more hazardous to be a bad guy.
