{"id":10733,"date":"2011-04-12T02:15:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T07:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=10733"},"modified":"2011-04-11T22:58:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T03:58:24","slug":"us-navy-employs-ship-mounted-laser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/12\/us-navy-employs-ship-mounted-laser\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy Employs Ship-Mounted Laser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Similar to the US Air Force&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/22\/star-trek-coming-navy-may-field-anti-aircraft-lasers\/\">Airborne Laser<\/a>, the US Navy recently test-fired a laser from the deck of one of its test ships, the former USS <em>Paul Foster<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The laser,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irconnect.com\/noc\/press\/pages\/news_releases.html?d=218331\">built by Northrop Grumman<\/a>,\u00a0successfully targeted a small boat on the open ocean with a classified range\u00a0described as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2011\/04\/08\/navy-showboats-destructive-new-laser-gun\/\">miles, not yards<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re used to Star Wars and Star Trek, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=awsQs4ct0c4\">video of the laser shot<\/a> may be a little disappointing.\u00a0 It appears the laser starts a small fire on one of the outboard motors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Similar to the US Air Force&#8217;s Airborne Laser, the US Navy recently test-fired a laser from the deck of one of its test ships, the former USS Paul Foster. The laser,\u00a0built by Northrop Grumman,\u00a0successfully targeted a small boat on the open ocean with a classified range\u00a0described as &#8220;miles, not yards.&#8221; If you&#8217;re used to Star Wars and Star Trek, the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[210,2,36,1677],"class_list":["post-10733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-laser","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-paul-foster-northrop-grumman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}