US Navy Combat Lasers Are Too Expensive for Actual Deployment
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6BA4V)
The US Navy combat laser program is getting stalled with $55 million per year for prototypes but no combat deployment. The US Navy does not want to start spending billions to deploy small numbers of lasers that will probably live up to expectations of effectiveness. When the US Navy says a weapon system is too ...