在美国白沙导弹靶场，用TRW公司研究的激光武器样机摧毁了俄罗斯设计的炮兵火箭。TRW公司的Nautilus激光防空武器可以捕获一个目标，并且激光束长时间瞄准着它，穿透厚的钢弹壳，使战斗部暴炸，整个过程发生只需几秒钟时间。而后在不到1秒钟内略为转动反射镜重新瞄准另一个目标 At the White Baidi Missile Range in the United States, Russian-designed artillery rockets were destroyed using prototype laser weapons researched by TRW. TRW’s Nautilus laser air defense weapon can capture a target, and the laser beam aimed at it for a long time, penetrate the thick steel shell, the warhead exploded, the whole process takes only a few seconds. Then turn the mirror slightly to re-aim at another target in less than 1 second