Weapons

Laser For Aerial Defense

Protection from aerial threats is critical for ships out at sea, being exposed to aerial assaults from any direction. Laser technology and its use as a weapon is no longer restricted to scienc fiction, and examples for various uses already exist in the world’s armies. The main use of laser by the military might be mostly for passive applications rather than for attack, such as laser markers on optic sights for better-aimed shooting, laser rangefinders that can measure the distance from the soldier to the enemy, as well as many others, but there are a number of uses for laser energy as an agressive weapon. Of those, the United States’ Nautilus system for aerial defense, which has not yet been put in operational use.