How long are they going to play this game with lasers? In the 1980s I was working on a frame for a laser that was going to be used by the Navy to shoot down icbms. This can be a very practical weapon but you need a very large power source. Maybe a separate turbine to run just a generator for this. This is not difficult to do if you just do it. The difficulty would be in what the range is a Bissell laser and how much heat can a generate at a distance. The fact that they’ve been doing this for 40 years tells me that they probably can’t do this in our lifetime or, it’s right around the corner. The creation of a Mach 6 missile has been here 4 years and it seems that we are just way too far behind the ability to eliminate this threat
Race, my experience has been that when Uncle Sugar says he’s working on something, you can safely assume that he already has a working model of a much advanced version sitting in a warehouse somewhere.