The Pentagon wants lasers. Can anyone build them fast enough?

# Pentagon Orders Up Laser Weapons Like It's Buying Fighter Jets The U.S. military is telling defense companies it's ready to buy dozens to hundreds of laser weapons over the next few years, moving them from experimental prototypes to actual battlefield tools. Right now, companies only make a handful of these high-powered laser systems at a time, but the Pentagon wants them to ramp up production and treat lasers as a standard military technology—similar to how they mass-produce missiles or radars. This is essentially the military's way of giving companies the green light to invest billions in factories and manufacturing equipment to make laser weapons a regular part of the armed forces.