Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Navy's Next Laser Weapon Is Basically a Real-Life Ray Gun The U.S. Navy just signed a contract for a new portable laser weapon ...

But focus too much on matters of geopolitics, and you can lose sight of something arguably even more profound: Laser guns are ...

The U.S. Navy could soon have a real-life ray gun laser weapon. As of the moment, the United States only has one weapon similar to a ray gun. This is the current lower-energy laser system called Zeus, ...

Click to open image viewer. This plastic "laser gun" toy was made in Taiwan, probably in the 1970s or 1980s. In contrast to earlier toy space weapons that used rays (atomic or otherwise) to defeat ...

Now more than ever, the world seems to be in need of ray guns. I’m curious why lasers aren’t used for more of this type of work. Surely the success of such weapons in Flash Gordon, Star Wars, and Star ...

LOS ANGELES -- The U.S. Navy has fired a laser ray gun mounted on a warship, zapping -- and setting fire to -- an empty motorboat as it bobbed in the Pacific Ocean. The test demonstration, off ...

LOS ANGELES—The U.S. Navy has fired a laser ray gun mounted on a warship, zapping — and setting fire to — an empty motorboat as it bobbed in the Pacific Ocean. The test demonstration ...

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