RAND published a prior report by John Schank, Ken Munson, Brian Perkinson, James McGee, Jerry Sollinger, and Scott Savitz discussing how to address surging demand for power and cooling through modular, flexible ship designs, explicitly discussing the needs of directed-energy weapons such as lasers.
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U.S. Chief of Naval Operations ADM Caudle cited the need for directed-energy weapons (such as lasers) in today's Washington Post, including the fact that warships need t…
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