Navy's Move to an All-Electric Fleet Will Boost Directed-Energy Weapons
Credit: ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY
The U.S. Navy's nascent fleet of electric ships, designed to produce tens of megawatts of power, could be the technological bridge that moves directed energy from large, earthbound systems to full-scale, highly mobile weapons. "New advanced electric-propulsion systems that can generate 30 megawatts...
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