Defense sector warns of Chinese laser-cannon threat

""The US' airborne laser was designed to have a range of between 200 and 300km. If the system could strike that far from an aircraft, it should be able to reach much further launched from land," Chang said."
I can agree with what Chang said, with access to more power you can indeed get more range from an energy weapon. There are a couple of problems though, curvature of the Earth, and line of sight. These things combined make it fairly difficult to hit something at considerable distance without the use of an airborne mirror.

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