Navy set to deploy Laser aboard Ponce

[Feuer Frei!]

So, it's finally happening. After a lot of testing (6 years).
Video in link.

The Navy will deploy a high-energy, solid-state directed energy, or “laser” weapon early next year on board the amphibious transport dock Ponce, Navy officials said Monday.
This will be the first such deployment of the Navy’s Laser Weapons System after it completed test shots last summer aboard the destroyer Dewey. The laser targeted fast boats and unmanned drones in the tests completed in the Pacific off the California coast.

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Mind you, the laser is the size of a dime, it would barely singe a fighter plane, letalone destroy it.
This one's meant to deal with fast attack boats and drones at this stage.
Watch out Iran!!!