Everybody gangsta until the controller starts drifting.

Yo, imagine this highly trained military gamer raging because he missed an easy shot.

Pirates bout to start chrome wrapping their ships

Here's the scary part: the only reason that the navy has acknowledged that they have this weapon is that they have something way more devastating in the back.

Imagine how lethal it’ll be when the navy figures out how to use mouse and keyboard

Sci-fi movies: Lasers are bright red lights that go pew Real life: Invisible, silent, and deadly

Russia: our missiles are hypersonic. US Navy: our lasers are faster

Gen z going to 360 no scope someone in ww3 💀

Pirates be like: *yo report this guy, aim locking us while hes 200 meters away*

Military : we are currently hiring experienced pro gamers

I read an article about this back in school in 2013. I wonder what progress was made on this type of weapon since.

This is probably how they started the fire in Hawaii

Just point it to the target, the cats will take it down

Fun fact: scientists built a small scaled down version specifically designed to kill mosquitoes and it works perfectly.

The unthinkable

Why does it sound like an AI is doing your voice here lmao

This is actually scary powerful, you can’t see or hear it and it’s accurate af. They should defo nerf this

The enemy ship: stop aimbotting! The us military: haha get rekt ez

More terrifying than any blaster I seen in star wars.

After they finished testing the prototype on the USS Ponce the captain requested if they could keep it on the ship. It cost less than $1 per shot and they figured the crew could get some experience using the system. The system was operational until the ship was decommissioned 18 months later. They amount of data they got from the program was crazy as the system was used hundreds if not thousands of times. They also took the same system on a 747 and tested it. The US military was a bit more tight lipped about that operation, but it was remarked that it was successful. Rumors point to testing if the targeting system could hit a missile, possibly an ICBM, from a flying base. This was one of the ideas proposed by Reagan back in the 80s as part of his Star Wars Defense ideas to protect from Russian ICBMs. The technology was not there back then. That system was a 30kw laser. They have put a 60-90kw laser systems called Helios on a missile destroyer in 2019 and another in 2020 and they are still operational. The US is testing a Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense (M-SHORAD) with a 50kw lasers to protect troops from incoming artillery, mortars, and RPGs and likely could protect from drones and possibly take down cruise missiles, incoming missiles, and even jets. They have 3 more on order. The Air Force and Navy also have samples of this 50klw system that they are testing. The US has also order 4 mobile truck mounted lasers and 1 naval laser system for 2024 that is 300kw. 300kw would be a game changer. Say you took op 1/2 the bomb bay of B-52 with even a 150kw laser you could likely hit any SAM or AAM or even other fighter jets that came within several miles of it. What could Russia do to stop it. Literally that B-52 could fly over Russia all day and Russia could not stop it. At 150kw it could down a missile in less than a second and these things can fire back to back shots over and over. Even shooting 20 S-300 at one time would likely not touch it. An Su-35 could not get close enough to use guns and any missile they shoot would be shot down. The US and Israel (with help from the US) are the only countries with this level of laser defense likely for the next 20 years. If they could fit a 300kw system in a bomber, that is powerful enough to strike the ground from 50,000 feet. This strong of a laser should be able to do double that range or more in clear weather (Israel claims their 150kw lasers will have a range of 20km). Think of sending a B-2 with one of these 300kw systems just flying over Russia hitting ever SAM site and radar it sees., then pepper tanks with hundreds of shots until the engine or ammo cooks off... It could hit thousands of targets in just a few hours. Now currently lasers can not be used on humans according to the Geneva Convention, but this is likely to change as there is really little difference between a laser and an AP round from a rifle. It is going to punch a hole right through you and likely vaporize the flesh so fast it will not cauterize. It will be like driving a needle right through your body.

*Gamers joining the navy* "I have never been more prepared for anything in my life."

1945: We have metal as armour 2045: *Mirrors*

I was working 2nd shift on a production floor around 81 or 82 and we all had our radios on the same station so you could hear really well. The news came on and they said that the military just announced that they had a portable laser projector that could cut the wings off of a plane at 3 miles. We all got to talking about it and waited for the next news a half hour later.. Never heard anything else. Maybe somebody sent out a press release that shouldn't have, hmmm.🧐😖🤔😲

Need several of those LASERS all around the ship

**holds up pocket mirror and flips off the entire us navy**

"Ps4 or xbox controller?" He be asking the million dollar questions lol

Imagine it was a 20yo Sega controller.

Imagine one day finding this on console or Steam💀

Imagine showing up with a mirror 🪞 *UNO Reverse card*

Gonna destroy the principal office without destroying the entire school.

Picard: Fire at will, Mr worf. Riker: ow!

imagine the navy recruiting pro fps players to man that laser

imagine just vibing out at sea, and all of a sudden, you hear an explosion and you look back, only to find your engine completely fucked.

Imagine if you are in charge of shooting down drones and your controller battery runs out

Ask Hawaii if it works

"Hey mom said it's my turn now" " no it's still my turn" *starts fighting _KABOOM_ _dies_

Games: laser weapons drain quickly Reality: *_activates infinite ammo cheat code_*

Everybody gangsta until the boat has a perfect mirror on it to reflect it right back

This really is an advanced warfare moment

The movie Real Genious showed this idea to the public. Only thing missing is a space based reflector

"Real life lightsaber" "First laser gun" We're getting closer to star wars every day

Imagine being a enemy soldier on a boat and your with your buddies and suddenly one of them just explodes 😐

Alien:Hahaha we can finally beat hu- *Laser:Sssshhhhh*

Oh we have many, mounted on the land, ships, planes and satellites. It's been over 30 since I work in the field. I'm sure it is fully functional now.

The operator when they miss a point blank shot: yeets controller to the ocean

The operator when they missed the shot: Damn I'm fucking lagging

So we finally weaponized laser pointers

Might be the best defense against a supersonic missile incoming. It would probably take a lot of shots fired rapidly.

“The navy is aiming something at us, but I wonder why they haven’t fired it yet” ...All a sudden your boy next to you spontaneously combusts

The government is using a ps4 controller cause even they can’t get a ps5.

Finally, a real life weapon that is better than what we see in sci-fi movies

Imagine you're a ammunition manufacturer. How much will you spend in lobbying to slow down the military's adoption of laser weaponry?

I love how they make sure to specify “publicly acknowledged” because we all know there’s ones before it and they just weren’t known to public

Everybody gangsta until they start building the death star

Everyone gangsta until they assign a pc player to this job

The target: *has a little mirror* The laser: 😲

"So what games do you play?" "It's complicated..."

“Noooo you can’t spam instant kill weapons!” America: “Ha ha laser go bzzzztttt”

Heard about this a couple of years ago. A really $ saver. Also heard that the idea is being worked on to extend it to take out ICBMs. The power supply might be a gasoline powered generator? I'm guessing.

It was an Logitech controller 💀

The US government really thought we wouldn’t notice the invisible cats taking out the target smh

The scary part about this is whenever the military shows us a weapon there’s already a better one out there

If they miss, then the next point of contact is destroyed.

Wow, Maui had no chance of surviving.

Earth v2021.Apr update: *nerfed the laser gun -now needs ammunition -25% damage falloff -increased recoil -no random crits

“Lasers travel at the speed of light” Star Wars: I’m going to pretend I didn’t hear that

"sir please get off those are display toilets"

"This is the world's FIRST PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGED ACTIVE laser system..."

This is the only *publicly acknowledged* laser. Imagine what else they have that we don’t know of.

They should add a giant speaker that plays starwars blaster noises every time it fires

Carbon dioxide laser weaponry is just like an invisible flamethrower. But yet it can actually go further than the regular flamethrowers.

But it doesn’t make the cool CIWS noise anymore 🥺

**pulls out a pocket mirror** _"checkmate multimillion dollar weapon system"_

US Government: why you need $700 billion for? The Military: “understand, you would not”

Me when someone ring the dorbell haha

POV: your ship spontaneously catches fire *goddamn aim assisted controllers*

Everybody gangsta ‘til people start building warships with mirror-armor plates Edit: I just wanted to clarify with all of you, this comment is for *comedic* purposes. I thought it best to add this because there are overwhelming amounts of ☝️🤓akshually Andys in my replies.

"a laser travels at the speed of light" every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes

“damn bro they really should’ve added point track instead of this area track bullshit”

“Publicly Acknowledged” Watch out, other countries, they might have more.

Imagine the enemy has a similar laser canon with a PC player....

“Just like a laser pointer” -this guy

The military realized that the new soldiers of the Future grew up playing with video games and some have experience with electronics. So most electronic Weapons are similar to video games functions.

Its great, just not in bad weather such as fog, rain or cloudy conditions. Also suffers from limited range because of the curvature of the earth and the height of waves etc that's why it's mounted so high on the ship.

future warfare gonna be like two nations sitting in front of screens and xbox controlers in their hand trying to shoot each other

"Was it a PS4 controller? Or an Xbox Controller?" *Ten questions science can still not answer*

Now boats gonna have mirrors on it

They got around the inverse square law by dumping the equivalent of 24 hrs worth electricity of an entire major mega city into every shot.

"Sorry sir.... i missed the MIG and accidently blew up the space station!"

And this is only the one they're ALLOWING us to see 😂💀

A laser that works like a laser pointer! I can feel my brain cells dying listening to this 🤣

In Modern Warship we call it : ANSEQ-3

Starwars has been outdone now lasers are invisible

"it's incredibly precise" It's a laser. Ofc it is. "Works like a laser pointer" It IS a laser pointer "Travels at the speed of light" IT IS LIGHT!

me with a mirror waiting for the bossfight

All fun and game until you got 500 ping

This takes silent but deadly to a whole new level

Dr. Evil: "All I want is some frickin sharks with some frickin lasers on them"

Everyone gangsta until your friend gets one of these, and you piss them off

I have a target suggestion. 55 gallon drum of popcorn with salt & butter.