[Noumenon]

Just wow. Get that down to man-portable size and I’ll take one. Just the thing for fly season around here.

[AlmaKing]

Drones with freakin’ lasers on their heads!

Forget sharks.

[Boogieman]

Meh, drones with regular old guns and bombs are surely going to be more practical and versatile.

If lasers were in a usable state for warfare, we’d be putting them on all our ships and tanks first, not bothering with drones. This is a publicity stunt, I think, to drum up funding for more military laser research.

[doorgunner69]

I just love how these Popular Mechanix type articles gloss over minor issues like where does the power for this come from?

[BenLurkin]

[farming pharmer]

I’d like to see the system used for surgical anti-personnel strikes. Fry a few goatf*****s and let the rest cower in fear....

[Kommodor]

"Hitting a target with a laser mounted on a vibrating platform moving quickly through air laden with dust and water vapor is tougher than launching a Hellfire at a moving vehicle. . ."

Funny, I thought that we had long been using things like targeting pods on aircraft to designate ground targets for bombs and missiles.