US Navy successfully test fires high-energy laser weapon system
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The U.S. Navy on Wednesday released dramatic photos from a demonstration of a high-energy laser weapon system that “successfully engaged” a floating target during a test in the Gulf of Aden.
The Navy took to Twitter to post futuristic infrared images that showed the laser training on its target. Another image showed sailors in a control room presumably wearing protective glasses.
The Navy on Tuesday opened a $23 million laboratory in California’s Ventura County that will serve as a test facility for new laser weapons, the Times of San Diego reported.
The paper described the Directed Energy Systems Integration Laboratory as a 1,500-square-foot facility "designed so that weapons can be installed on its roof as well as inside the building for test and evaluation."
