{"id":102002,"date":"2020-02-06T21:13:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T05:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/us-military-to-unveil-new-super-powered-lasers-capable-of-zapping-putins-nukes-out-of-the-sky"},"modified":"2020-02-06T21:13:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T05:13:04","slug":"us-military-to-unveil-new-super-powered-lasers-capable-of-zapping-putins-nukes-out-of-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/us-military-to-unveil-new-super-powered-lasers-capable-of-zapping-putins-nukes-out-of-the-sky","title":{"rendered":"US military to unveil new super-powered lasers capable of zapping Putin\u2019s nukes out of the sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-military-to-unveil-new-super-powered-lasers-capable-of-zapping-putins-nukes-out-of-the-sky.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE US military is close to unveiling new super-powered lasers capable of zapping nukes straight out of the sky.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 150-kilowatt weapons will be fitted to warships and are able to \u2018take out\u2019 drones, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/2821827\/raf-typhoons-scrambled-intercept-russian-bombers\/\">aircraft, cruise missiles and even other ships<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe previous laser prototype was tested in the Persian Gulf three years ago aboard an amphibious the USS Ponce,\u201d said Col Mikhail Khodarenok, former editor of the Military-Industrial Courier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE US military is close to unveiling new super-powered lasers capable of zapping nukes straight out of the sky. The 150-kilowatt weapons will be fitted to warships and are able to \u2018take out\u2019 drones, aircraft, cruise missiles and even other ships. \u201cThe previous laser prototype was tested in the Persian Gulf three years ago aboard [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}