Sometimes, we don't post about airsoft tech, an FPS video game, the latest firearm, or a airsoft-culture icon here. We actually report about feats of military engineering. It may not be the most awesome firearm that we want to have an airsoft version with, but it is something that may just push forward the world's most high-tech military further into the future, with rivals still catching up with the previous military technology breakthrough.

In this case, it is about the U.S. Navy's latest weapon, which is simply called the Laser Weapon System (LAWS). If you will think about a light beams hitting targets quickly and accurately as seen in movies and television shows, then you're thinking of the right weapon.

The U.S. military have been researching on making lasers viable weapons platform just like sci-fi authors and futurists have been telling us. One of the the problem is the power systems that can sustain a high energy weapon like a laser. The other is the type of laser they want to use, which I will leave it to others to explain what these are.

On board the USS Ponce in the Persian Gulf, is the LAWS, which they tested against two targets --- one a speedboat and the other a drone. It successfully hit both targets with the operator using which looks like a game controller as seen in the video below:

The deployment of the LAWS in the Persian Gulf also is a warning to Iran that they have a weapon system that is about ready to go and defeat its strategy of "swarming" sending big numbers of fast attack boats the ships of the U.S. Navy patrolling the gulf, including aircraft carriers. This means that by overwhelming the ships with such numbers, a torpedo or an anti-ship missile may just get through and sink a capital ship, either an Aegis Destroyer, or the biggest, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. With a laser weapon system that can hit and destroy targets on the water or up in the air at a fast rate that the "swarming" approach will be futile.

But a single LAWS on board a single ship may not be enough, and it will take several LAWS installed in some ships in a fleet to be able to swat away the swarms. Now, it's just a matter of waiting when the U.S. Navy will give the green light to have this deployed for all their fleets worldwide.