Beam Weapons

That wasn’t the headline that I would have used. I thought when I was about to read this story that they were using the lasers to simply find the IEDs. No, they’re using lasers to destroy IEDs remotely. I think they’re approaching the capability to put them on the frickin’ heads of the sharks.

[Update a few minutes later]

Speaking of twenty-first-century warfare, Alan Boyle has an interesting piece on the new age of battlebots.