The LCS has just what the Navy needs to defend freedom of the seas in the first island chain.
Littoral Combat Ships for Maritime COIN
Previously:
Littoral Combat Ship Still Fighting to Prove Its Worth
Bringing Vietnamese Counterinsurgency To The Philippines And South China Sea (Part I) – Analysis
Taiwan’s National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) is developing a 50-kilowatt laser weapon to neutralize enemy missiles and drones
Taiwan Developing Vehicle-Mounted 50kW Laser Weapon
ARLINGTON, Va. – The new head of Naval Surfaces Force wants to accelerate the installation of directed energy weapons on surface warships, as the Navy grapples with low-cost, long-range attack drones proliferating widely in places like the busy commercial shipping lanes of the Middle East.
New SWOBOSS Wants More Directed Energy Weapons on Warships as Low-Cost Threats Expand
U.S. tech companies and government agencies are racing to develop defenses against potential terrorist drone attacks, a threat that has security experts increasingly concerned as they’ve watched the rise of drone warfare in Israel, Ukraine and Yemen.
U.S. tech companies prepare for potential drone attacks as international strikes spark concern
Sponsored by Raytheon or something like that. /s
Pictures and video of the Iron Dome in action have made appearances across the news and social media apps since Hamas terrorists launched an attack against Israel on Oct. 7. It’s a powerful system, but instead of smart rockets, what if there was a system that used lasers instead? That is exactly what Rafael Advanced Defense Systems’ latest aerial defense system, the Iron Beam, is capable of.
Israel’s Iron Beam: Everything you need to know
Related:
White House requesting funding for Israeli laser weapon, other military assistance
Video via Fridayeveryday
China’s Green Space Lasers in Hawaii—What We Do Know, What We Don’t
Related:
I Found MTG’s Jewish Space Lasers! /s
Conspiracy Theorists Go Viral With Claim Space Lasers Are To Blame For Hawaii Fires
[2018] In absence of fog, the images from a SpaceX launch Tuesday are stunning
Viral Photo Of ‘Laser’ Starting Fires In Hawaii Is Completely Fake
The Department of Defense granted Wayne State University $750,000 to attempt to give ferrets “Havana Syndrome.” Earlier this month, the intelligence community concluded the illness is not caused by a weapon.
DoD Will Spend $750,000 Inducing ‘Havana Syndrome’ in Animals, an Illness the Intel Community Cannot Prove Exists
Related:
The Pentagon is funding experiments on animals to recreate ‘Havana Syndrome’ (PETA’s response included)
Related:
The Army will finally stand up a laser-equipped Stryker platoon next month
YouTube: We tested the US Military’s secret space weapon
The US doesn’t believe that these weapons are weapons of mass destruction—which would violate the Outer Space Treaty!?!
The study found that US systems wouldn’t be effective against even a limited North Korean attack, let alone a more sophisticated one from Russia or China.
New scientific review punctures myth of missile defense
While the jury is still out on who committed the attacks against U.S. officials, or even whether there were any attacks at all, directed energy weapons certainly do exist. Havana Syndrome might be science fiction, but directed energy weapons are very much science fact.
Havana Syndrome, Directed Energy Weapons, and the New Cold War
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