I'm Adding It To My Christmas List: Navy Laser Blaster Shoots Down Robotic Planes

At first I was gonna ask for all the original He-Man action figures, but now all I want is an anti-robot laser. Suck it, two front teeth! (You should have watched where that mule was kicking anyways)

If you own an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), here's piece of advice: don't fly it near San Nicholas Island, California, or it could be blasted out of the sky - by a laser. Two such vehicles were successfully shot down there on May 24th by a US Navy laser weapon. According to the official press release, this marks "the first detect-thru-engage laser shoot-down of a threat representative target in an over-the-water, combat representative scenario."

Members of the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) utilized a laser shot through a beam director on a KINETO tracking mount, controlled by a MK 15 Phalanx Close In Weapon System (CIWS). The Navy's Laser Weapon System (LaWS) has already shot down UAVs in other scenarios, bringing the total number of downed flying robots to seven.

Seven huh? We're have to at least triple that number if we plan on winning any robot apocalypse. I figure I'm good for five myself. And I'm gonna go ahead put you down for two although I suspect you may only get one before succumbing to your wounds (I'm just being honest).

Navy ray gun shoots down robotic targets [gizmag]

Thanks to Ian, Jason and Ryan, who I'm marking down for three kills each because they all have enough sense to keep up on the latest in anti-robot technology. Good lookin', guys.

• Raytheon Gets Contract For Laser Weapon

  June 15, 2009

  Raytheon, a company best known for my brother and I both swearing we saw an airplane land on top of one of their buildings in Huntsville, Alabama, has received a Navy contract to draw up the initial design of a powerful burning 100-kW Fee Electron Laser (which may or may not lo... / Continue →
• Do Want: The Navy's New Laser/Gun Combo

  July 27, 2011

  The Navy, always looking for a more terrifying weapon, and a few good men "That's the Marines, moron." Oh. Let me start over. The Navy, who apparently doesn't accept contract kills by email even if you cleverly use an official looking email address like AdmiralGW.gov@gmail, is... / Continue →
• Wow: Plane-Mounted Laser Burning A Truck

  October 5, 2009

  This is a short video of Boeing and the Air Force testing a plane-mounted laser's ability to burn the everliving shit out of a stationary object during a flyby. Mission accomplished! This video shows the effect of the high-energy laser beam from the Boeing Advanced Tactical... / Continue →