A solid state laser (SSL) would be mounted onto a U.S. Navy warship and would be used to destroy multiple incoming warheads or missiles aimed at a naval fleet or the United States
'We Want LASERS For Our $636m Missile Defense System': Military Experts Aim To Revive Reagan's Star Wars Plan -- Daily Mail
Almost 30-years after President Reagan promised America an impregnable space-laser defence shield against nuclear missile attack, the country is still waiting.
Pentagon planners and successive president's have since moved away from Reagan's 'Star Wars' Strategic Defence Initiatve (SDI) goal, instead concentrating on an anti-ballistic missile defence that relies on using ground-based rockets.
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My Comment: All major US defense related budgets are going to be slashed in the upcoming years .... reviving defense related projects like 'Star Wars' is not going to happen .... even if developments in technology makes it look very feasible.