Go look at the power consumption per shot numbers. Note that the Navy under Obama cancelled all their advanced power generation projects to save their precious LCS and DDG1000s.
We won’t be seeing a rapid-fire CIWS laser system any time soon.
“Go look at the power consumption per shot numbers... We won’t be seeing a rapid-fire CIWS laser system any time soon.”
I guess that truck mounted versions contain their power supply as well, so roughly that weight and cubic volume might be bolted to the deck of Naval ships, container ships, barges and/or robotic follower ships. Perhaps if we can’t get a high enough rate of fire from one, we could get enough more firing as a team, to achieve the desired effect.
Of course, nuclear power sources would be the closest thing to real “bottomless magazine”.