[FatherofFive]

So far the Army's laser testing program has cost about $13 million a year since it began in 2011.

This seems incredibly inexpensive. Less than an 0bama vacation.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Much more practical than the multi-container THEL (Tactical high Energy laser) I worked with back in themid-90’s. That required several shifts to hook everything up and calibrate, but was liquid fuel-powered.

Still needs that expensive. THEL Laser was a very large diameter searchlight-like looking aiming device, like on the truck above. Navy was testing a similar beam device. Good thing above a Navy installation is that local atmospheric heating is negligible because the ship is always moving into “clean” cool air, so local air heating around the searchlight doesn’t distort that little-bitty beam. Ya still got to hit the incoming missile/mortar shell.

[GeronL]

Yes it does seem quite inexpensive doesn’t it?

Maybe it will be deployed alongside CIWS on ships some day?