re: Israel has successfully tested the new “Iron Beam” laser interception system.

The US leads the world in developing laser technology. Every major country is trying to develop this tech. Israel is right up there too. I watched a video on this topic a week or 2 ago. It’s actually pretty cool. The US is looking to put lasers on everything in the future. Tanks, ships even aircraft. They want to have a laser pod attached to the sixth generation fighter jets that are in development.

Lasers do have a drawback right now. They need time to focus on the targets they are shooting at and lasers do not always have that time. Lasers and directed energy weapons as I think they are called also have trouble with hypersonic missiles. Lasers want to focus at the nose of a missile to take it out. Well the faster a missile travels it build up heat and gets real hot at the nose naturally and the more heat is at the nose of something the harder it is for lasers to focus on and track the target. That’s a pretty basic breakdown of how it works. I have forgot and left out some info. A ton of videos exist online explaining this tech and it’s very interesting. We have a long way to go yet to have Star Wars laser rifles and light sabers but we are closer than what I thought before I watched that video. It’s going to be pretty cool tech once it gets worked out.