The Pentagon says laser weapons are nearly ready for prime time

# Pentagon Says Laser Weapons Could Be Ready Within 2 Years The U.S. military says it has figured out how laser weapons work and is now focused on the harder challenge: making them cheap and fast enough to produce in large quantities. A top Pentagon official told Congress that the military wants to deploy these weapons at scale within the next two to three years, speeding up the timeline because of new defense priorities involving missile defense and lessons learned from recent events in Iran.