The U.S. military has handed two engineers $3.2 million to create a Star Wars-style laser weapon. And now Clemson University researchers John Ballato and Lin Zhu, in South Carolina, have been tasked with advancing these terrifying high energy weapons. Ballato is working on an optical fibre that channels a high energy light which is powerful enough to melt through drones and rockets. He has been ordered to create a highly powerful light beam that also goes in one direction. The US defense department has already been testing out high energy laser cannons.

Source: Fox News June 01, 2017 09:45 UTC