US Newest $500 Million Laser Weapon Is Ready For Battle!
This is the LOCUST laser weapon system. It is America’s answer to a new, scary threat that the world has come to fear – weaponized drones. Inside the LOCUST is a delicate arrangement of a tracking system, a power system, and a laser output system working together to detect, track, identify, and engage threats with powerful laser beams — like science fiction but without the fiction. LOCUST uses high-resolution cameras and sensors that provide both a wide field of view for acquisition and narrow, high-precision views for tracking. The tracking is done via an advanced gimbaled electro-optical tracking system designed for tracking various threat sets in cluttered or clear skies. This gimbal unit features a fine tracking system, a powerful telescope, a laser rangefinder, an acquisition tracking system, and a targeting laser. With the target identified and locked on, the system’s high energy laser then kicks into action.