NASA's drone killer does not play around The USS Ponce is the first ship and crew to put LaWS into action, and CNN recently witnessed the weapon firsthand. Essentially, it works like most laser ...

The U.S. Navy has already fielded a laser weapon on the USS Ponce. And the U.S. Army is looking for ways to use lasers to protect troops in the field from artillery shells, missiles, and drones.

For the first time, a laser weapon system (LaWS) was successfully operated aboard a US Navy ship. A demonstration of LaWS took place in November aboard the USS Ponce while it was deployed to the ...

Laser Weapon System (LaWS) demonstration aboard USS Ponce Human operators still have a chance of succeeding against a single drone, but swarms of the things are another matter. True, a laser can ...