{"id":107408,"date":"2020-05-21T10:45:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T17:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/the-us-navy-wants-to-arm-nuclear-submarines-with-laser-cannons"},"modified":"2020-05-21T10:45:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T17:45:25","slug":"the-us-navy-wants-to-arm-nuclear-submarines-with-laser-cannons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/the-us-navy-wants-to-arm-nuclear-submarines-with-laser-cannons","title":{"rendered":"The US Navy wants to arm nuclear submarines with laser cannons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-us-navy-wants-to-arm-nuclear-submarines-with-laser-cannons2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s just one problem, according to the magazine: Laser weapons basically don\u2019t work underwater, where laser light scatters and gets absorbed almost immediately.<\/p>\n<p><b>Top Secret<\/b><\/p>\n<p>While public documents reveal certain details about the designs the Navy has been testing since at least 2011, the Navy has remained tight-lipped about the execution or purpose of such a system, <em>PopMech<\/em> reports. One theory, according to the magazine<em>, <\/em>is that the Navy plans to integrate the lasers into the submarines\u2019 periscopes and use them as surface weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But there\u2019s just one problem, according to the magazine: Laser weapons basically don\u2019t work underwater, where laser light scatters and gets absorbed almost immediately. Top Secret While public documents reveal certain details about the designs the Navy has been testing since at least 2011, the Navy has remained tight-lipped about the execution or purpose of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107408","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=107408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}