£72.5m = 100 million US Dollars
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“...will be fitted to a British warship and armoured vehicles...”
“...to build demonstrators that will test the capabilities
before they are cleared for regular use...”
Is the electricity they use generated by wind power or solar power?
What? FOSSIL FUEL?
UNACCEPTABLE!
Snark....
Read a possibly classified assessment of the then Soviet navy some 40 years claiming they were expected to field ship lasers within five years.
And, there are a few FReepers that read too much popular mechanix that think our navy already deploys all sorts of particle beam weapons.
This could be devastating to the cat population.
Phasers like on Star Trek. They just need a powerful ultra small battery for the hand held devise. The warp core could power the larger size power cannon.
radio frequency weapons are now laser weapons - those Brits are amazing