That is a notably specific kind of military ambition. The focus, at least in Bloomberg’s account, is not simply on adding a new weapon to a ship. It is on whether future vessels can produce the power such weapons would need.
The report supports a narrow but clear point: the navy is looking at future warships and the power systems that could make laser and microwave weapons possible aboard them. It does not, on the evidence available here, amount to an announcement that such ships are entering service or that the weapons are already being fielded.
Kochhar’s comments, as summarized by Bloomberg, tie the idea directly to countering swarms of cheap drones. Even in that brief description, the engineering challenge sits in the foreground.
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