For those who might not know, the US military and Israel have had these laser systems in field tests for several years, and some rumors that some are in actual deployment.
Other countries unlikely to be far behind.
Now all we need is a pistol and rifle version..............
Al-Jazeera had some pretty good videos of rocket attacks from Gaza being supposedly intercepted by Israeli "Iron Dome" missiles. It was not clear if the Israeli missiles hit anything. They sure do make a lot of strange turns before they finish.
But there were a number of what appeared to be laser shots from ground installations which definitely hit something coming the other way. There was a distinctive beam that intersected with a rocket trail, and the rocket then sparked and fragmented into a number of glowing pieces.
If these were some types of laser weapon, they had a very low rate of fire and the IDF needed a lot more of them than they had to deal with the swarm of rockets.