The U.S. Navy used a laser developed in Redondo Beach by Northrop Grumman Corp. to demonstrate how the weapon can defend a ship against small boats, the company and military branch said Friday.
The open ocean tests were conducted between October of last year and this month at the Pacific Ocean Test Range near San Nicolas Island off the Central California coast.
The at-sea tests "validated the potential to provide advanced self-defense" that ships can use to keep threatening small boats at a "safe distance," the Navy said in a statement.
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