organization:u.s navy

Navy re-establishes Atlantic fleet to check Russia - POLITICO
▻https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/24/navy-atlantic-fleet-russia-751660

The U.S Navy on Friday formally reactivated the Cold War-era naval command it relied on for decades to confront adversaries in the waters off North America — the latest in a series of efforts to check Moscow’s military expansion.

The move comes as Russian submarine activity surges in the Atlantic.

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U.S. Navy Deploys Its First Laser Weapon in the Persian Gulf

Cost per shot: $1
Cost per device: $40 million
Power of the laser : 50 kW
Range : 10 km

The U.S Navy has developed a brand new weapon that could become the norm for taking down enemy drones and other small vessels. The Laser Weapon System, or LaWS, is the Navy’s next line of defense against anything from Iranian unmanned drones to Somali pirate boats. The system will be installed on the USS Ponce and get tested across the Persian Gulf this summer. While the program is only in the prototype phase now, the weapon could be deployed across the Navy’s fleet by 2017.

▻http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-14/u-s-navy-deploys-its-first-laser-weapon-in-the-persian-gulf.html

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