I think further testing should be conducted in Somali waters until all small craft traffic disappears.
Griffin
Meanwhile,the Somalis continue to make fools of them... I appreciate the hard work and risks of the soldiers&sailors but the administrators,bureaucracrats and policymakers are criminally negligent and wasteful. They should just put a fake sailboat on top of the conning tower of a nuke sub,set up a trap and when the Somalis rush the boat,
raise the sub with a very large
inverted circular mesh containment so when they bail overboard,the outer perimeter restricts upward and inward. Presto!
A bagful of pirates!
Of course,you could then submerge again...
No more pirates! Seriously,
they are already outgunned beyond belief and while the U.S. generates even more high-tech gadgetry they just go on TERRORIZING the sea lanes and fighting \"The war against TERRORISM\" against their own citizens. Same for the war on drugs. What good is all this gadgetry while our borders are a joke and illiterate savages make fools of our
armed forces?
Alien
This looks like just the right system to use on Somali pirates. Disable their craft one by one until they realise piracy is no longer a viable \'job option\'.
kdpalmer
This Laser will be great in the war against Pirates off Somalia, hit them before they get to close.
Freddy Bossa
Ahora si la guerra de las galaxias empieza...
Burnerjack
Griffin,YOU, Sir are a GENIUS! Alien, the key to your plan : After Peter Griffin kills Yogi Bear with a shot gun, He coolly looks at BooBoo and says\" Now, go back and tell the others.\"
Zappenfusen
Did they really destroy a \"small target boat\" powered by what appears to be $50,000.00 worth of outboards? Wouldn\'t a small Somalian pirate suffice for testing purposes? It appears all they destroyed was the outboards!
Matt Rings
The battle against Somali pirates, is as an earlier poster noted, not a lack of weaponry, but the Navy has its hands tied by \"rules of engagement\"... Suspected pirates just toss their weapons overboard when approached by Navy vessels, and then they just become \"innocent fishermen\"... and head back to Somali to re-arm, and head out to kill and pillage with fresh weapons.
Facebook User
Does no one think that this is a pointless weapons system? Wouldn\'t a sniper with a .50 cal be more effective and a heck of a lot cheaper. Afterall this laser won\'t work in the rain or the fog.