Fox News Admits Government Using Lasers Directed Energy Weapons

Video Transcript:

Lasers sound like the stuff of science fiction right sound completely unbelievable how can our military possibly be using those in future warfare guess what you've just had a recent breakthrough more great test results that are making lasers a reality so it's called Athena the Locking Martin makes it and they've been doing a lot of the pioneering in this laser field now what's really exciting about it is it's so hard hardest that much power and make it compact enough that's actually to make practical sense down range and they've proven that they can do that recently they tested it against five moving drones so realistic drones but they might go up against with you know enemy forces might send against us for example or terrorists might send against us and it's successfully shot down all five of the drones this is huge news because it means that in a realistic practical setting it's looking very promising so it could be ready to field quite soon so when you see the movies or you look at comic books or television shows when you see laser weapons they tend to be a color right red or green or something like that real lasers one of the key advantage that they provide is that they are invisible you actually can't see them you just see this damage suddenly starting to blow something up so if we take a look now at what the Athena did to a truck so we're looking at a truck engine and the Athena within seconds was able to beam right in there keep the whole thing up and burn through the engine of this vehicle so if you imagine if you were in that vehicle all the sudden this hole would start appearing in your engine and the whole thing would just disappear that's what these lasers do now there's some other key advantages that we should mention let me give you three of them one unlimited ammo as long as we have power they have an unlimited magazine down range of course having unlimited ammo can be a huge advantage second it's silent we don't give the enemy any advance warning that it's coming now the third one I wanted to touch on is that it travels at the speed of light so not only are we delivering powerful powerful powerful decisive effects we've got to be we're also doing it so rapidly they don't know what hit them so you can circle back to that example of being in the car again that would happen so instantaneously within seconds you truly would have no idea what was happening it would just suddenly start disintegrating right so what can we use these yes so we talked about the vehicle a bit we talked about how Athena has just proven itself against drones but in the real world application our forces could use it against the drones we could use it against aircraft we could use it against vehicles on the ground like we mentioned we could also use it against fast attack boats and in fact Athena's sibling Adam a couple years ago proved that it could eliminate these fast attack boats so if you imagine boats start trying to swarm one of our ships not a problem for this laser burns right through the hull as you can see right there it's burning right through the hull I'm incredibly excited about this news this great news about the successful testing of Athena because it means that we'll be putting these powerful weapons soon we could put them in the hands for warfighters and give them even more powerful weaponry to keep themselves safe