tom's Hardware reports that the Royal Navy will start equipping its Type 45 destroyers with this new laser weapon in 2027. The weapon can target hit a coin-sized target travelling 400 mph from one kilometer away. DragonFire is a 50 kW-class fiber-combined laser developed by a consortium of UK defense companies. Each shot uses about $13 in energy. That makes it less expensive to shoot the little bugger than a fancy cocktail costs in most bars. It can be used to obliterate incoming drones before they hit the destroyer. DragonFire blasting a speck of dust a half-mile away Just kidding, it hit a flying target bigger than dust As we would expect, DragonFire uses a spectral beam-combining architecture that merges multiple glass-fiber laser sources into a single beam with near diffraction-limited quality. Yikes!! That's really good!! It has a stabilized turret that houses the beam director, electro-optical sensors, and a secondary tracking laser for continuous target i...