Laser Weapon System ( La WS)

120804NZZ999001 SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Jul. 30, 2012) The Laser Weapon System (LaWS) temporarily installed aboard the guidedmissile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105) (shown here conducting an operational test) in San Diego, Calif. , is a technology demonstrator built by the Naval Sea Systems Command from commercial fiber solid state lasers, utilizing combination methods developed at the Naval Research Laboratory. LaWS can be directed onto targets from the radar track obtained from a MK 15 Phalanx CloseIn Weapon