Defense Tech: LASER HUMMER IN IRAQ: "In 2003, the Army sent ZEUS, a Humvee armed with a 10kw solid-state laser, to Afghanistan, to blast mines and other explosives left over from years of war. In the six months ZEUS spent there, the laser-hummer zapped over 200 pieces of unexploded ordnance, according to the Army, 'at one point setting a record for ordnance disposal by negating 51 pieces in less than 100 minutes.'

Now, ZEUS 'is being forward deployed' again, Army Space and Missile Defense Command Lt. Gen. Larry Dodgen tells Defense Daily."

(Via a DefenseTech.)