The Defense Department for the first time has destroyed a cruise missile target with a laser during a test in New Mexico -- a seminal achievement in the campaign to weaponize directed-energy technology and a demonstration that the game-changing potential to revolutionize operational concepts and dramatically alter the way U.S. forces fight is at hand. On Feb. 12, the Office of Naval Research conducted a test of a Layered Laser Demonstrator at White Sands Missile Range, NM, when a cruise...
