In the last decades of the 20th Century, the proponents of Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) have promised that lasers and high-power energy weapons would revolutionise warfare. In many ways, this promise has come true in a different form as thousands of smaller lasers fill the arsenals of modern military forces. These lasers, however, are mostly range-finding systems designed to improve the capability and effectiveness of kinetic weapons or dazzlers designed to incapacitate enemy optics. Recent developments, however, suggest that the promise of DEW is moving closer to reality.
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