US Air Force to Equip Fighter Jets with Laser Weapons by 2022

If you were beginning to lose hope that futuristic laser weapons would ever become a reality – it’s 2015, people! – then you may be in luck. The US Air Force is working on it, and could be attaching laser artillery to fighter jets as early as 2022. Last September, the US Navy spent $40 million installing a 30-kilowatt Laser Weapons System (LaWS) onboard the USS Ponce. The first of its kind, the laser has yet to be used in a true combat situation, but it has been test-fired on practice drones.

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