[RAY]

The technology to track and hit a fast moving object with a laser does not surprise me. However, to produce a beam with enough energy to destroy an object at great distance amazes me.

[Swiss]

That is what is impressing me as well, to distory an artillery shell in flight would mean either cooking off the explosive inside (by heating the shell) or by setting off the more sensitive fuse of the shell.

From what I have read of fires on the USS Lexington during WWII and other fires involving shells it took a lot of heat to cook off a shell. Very impressive stunt to do this with a Lasor in flight to a spinning shell.