'Star Trek' laser weapons to help shoot down drones

LONDON: US navy experts claimed to have come closer to developing 'Star Trek' inspired laser weapons capable of downing missiles, drones and aerial vehicles. They believe that within two years warships will be armed with weapons capable of firing deadly rays, capable of shooting down fighter jets and destroying missiles. Scientists at the office of naval research have developed a laser weapon that can down boats and drones at a fraction of the cost of conventional weapons.

"On directed energy, I'd say two years. We're well past physics," the Daily Express quoted Rear Admiral Matthew Klunder as saying. Last year the US navy staged a demonstration of a laser it had developed which was able to hit a dinghy from more than a mile away. A single beam fired at it caused the engine to burst into flames. A US air force laser weapon shot down five robotic planes in 2009. The following year, a Phalanx gun fitted with a laser beam "successfully tracked, engaged, and destroyed" a drone in flight over the sea.

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