Some test footage of the Laser Weapon System  installed on the guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105). This was previously shown HERE (and discussed HERE and HERE). In the footage, shot apparently last July, it’s shown frying (rather slowly) a small drone aircraft. Previously released video showing the laser knocking down identical flying-wing drones seem to have featured a ground-mounted system; this new video would seem to indicate that the shootdown occurred with the ship-mounted system. No data on how fast the ship was going and how rough the seas were. Guess: sitting still in calm seas.

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UPDATE: now with newsification.

The future is now: Navy to deploys lasers on ships in 2014

It somehow seems vaguely relevant to this news item:

PETA Plans to Fly Drones That Would ‘Stalk Hunters’