Marines in Central Command train on the Compact Laser Weapon System (CLaWS), taking down an unmanned aerial vehicle mid-flight, January 2021. (📹USMC)

that feels like an awful long dwell time to score a kill

This thing is what 2-5 kw?

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@x102reddragon Looks like the targeting system could be better used to direct kinetic rounds rather than 2-5kW bursts?

The USMC returned them all to Boeing

Looks like that takes a while to work. I wonder how well it would work when a pilot is trying to evade it.

This is a low power high energy laser

That's a wimpy laser if it took that long :)

It's a DJI Mavic lol

We have compact fiber laser systems that output in 30+ kWs. Whats the purpose of CLaWS?

Just wrap them in tin foil