Boeing’s latest 10kw laser (HEL-MD) fits in a HEMTT and has a lot of special tuning that makes it plausible as a prototype for missile and mortar defense. The project is working on upgrading it to 50kw, and Lockheed has a 60kw fiber optic laser they’re planning on mounting into the HEL-MD platform. The Lockheed design is really interesting in that it will be a huge leap in energy efficiency.
Eventually, they want to get the lasers into the 100kw range so they can be used offensively against planes, high altitude drones (possibly even satellites and ICBMs) and perhaps even ships and ground vehicles and fortifications.
Still, if you could mount several dozen of them to an air craft carrier, it’d be pretty much impervious to any attack outside of kinetic bombardment from orbit… Or other lasers I guess.
