⚡️🇬🇧 NEW - Footage shows UK's Dragonfire laser weapon system engaging drones at a test range

The British DragonFire laser weapon passed its test with flying colors, destroying a drone located 1 km away at a cost of one pound sterling per shot.

The Royal Navy confirmed today that it aims to start deploying lasers on its ships within two years.

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The article says 10£ per shot, not one pound, as mentioned in your note...

> DragonFire offers a cheaper (£10 per shot compared with, for example, over £1m for a Sea Viper missile)

(it can hit a £1 coin at a range of one kilometre) my mistake 🤦‍♂️

Looks pretty slow so far. I think they’ll need much more laser guns when faced by a swarm of these bugs.

⚡️ ERRATUM - 10£ per shot, not one pound.

Can they fire off thousands of those at once?

I don’t have the impression

I think the idea is that it has more long term potential to do that (thousands of targets at once) than the alternatives.

Doesn't work underwater