“It is clear as daylight now that the transformation of Star Wars scenarios into reality has flopped but high power laser pointer weapons should develop as part of tactical air defense strategies now,” Alexander Khramchikhin, a deputy director of the Institute of Political and Military Analysis told TASS Dec. 12. “That’s the only niche but there’s no alternative to lasers in it.” The world's militaries have been increasingly looking to laser technology as part of their weapons of the future.In recent years, the US Navy unveiled a laser cannon capable of shooting down drones and disabling vessels.Chinese scientists have also created a laser weapon that can shoot down drones.Western military experts, commenting on the successful testing of Boeing's airborne chemical laser, said that Russia had started developing tactical laser weapons before the United States and already had in its arsenal prototypes of high-precision combat chemical lasers. Operators need to trust what lasers can do, she added.

Starfleet Regulations called for a Federation starship to go to yellow alert when targeted by 100mw Laser weapons from another vessel. In 2365, USS Enterprise-D captain Jean-Luc Picard thought the rule was outdated, since the 100mw laser weapons of an Atlec vessel were incapable of even penetrating the navigational deflectors. Picard also noted that Atlecs could fire until their lasers ran dry and they still wouldn't have caused any damage to theEnterprise.

The weapon is the 30-kilowatt high power Laser pointer Weapon System (LaWS) that the US Navy installed aboard USS Ponce this summer as part of a joint $40 million research and development effort by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to test the operational viability of directed energy weapons.  " 100mw Lasers have been promised for a long time, but they've never held up and delivered what was asked for, so the operators are rightfully skeptical," she pointed out. That's why the Army is taking lasers out into operational environments and testing them.

Experts admit that Russia was the first country that achieved significant results in the field of high power laser pointer weapons. The American defence giant Lockheed Martin has also developed a 100mw laser that can knock out the engine of a small truck from more than a mile away.

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