Chinese Weapons Could Soon Fire Lasers Indefinitely After Major "Breakthrough"

The US military tested these weapons in the field, and some of them even destroyed supersonic missiles, they were cancelled owing to large size and weight of lasers.

The military in China has claimed that it has achieved a "major breakthrough" in energy weapons technology. According to a South China Morning Post (SCMP) report, scientists at National University of Defence Technology in Changsha have said that they've developed a state-of-the-art cooling system that would allow high-energy lasers to remain powered up "infinitely" without getting too hot. What this mean is weapons can fire a laser beam as long as they want, which experts say can change the warfare scenario forever. Chinese scientists achieve laser weapon technology ‘breakthrough' https://t.co/aA77jCMeg7 via @scmpnewsIf they have overcome the heating and distortion issues as claimed, in a (relatively) small enough unit for deployment, this is a big breakthrough considering the US… pic.twitter.com/bjAPebsAWw

The Chinese research team that has developed the cooling system say that it completely eliminates the harmful heat that is generated during the operation of high-energy lasers.

"This is a huge breakthrough in improving the performance of high-energy laser systems," SCMP quoted laser weapon scientist Yuan Shengfu as saying in a paper published on August 4 in Acta Optica Sinica, a Chinese-language peer-reviewed journal.