Star Wars-style laser weaponry is coming to the battlefield.

Last year the U.S. and Israeli armies field-tested a chemical laser made by TRW that successfully knocked out 100 mm rockets and artillery shells.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/TechTV/techtv_laserartillery030416.html

There's a CNN report on this too with a picture of the device. Check it out at:

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/10/29/laser.cannon.ap/

And here's a SUPER SWEET site with lots of pictures and stuff! Read all about it!:

http://www.israeli-weapons.com/weapons/missile_systems/systems/THEL.html

And here's another science magazine article about the laser:

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/laser-00g.html

It's worth mentioning here that artillery shells are MUCH harder to target and shoot than rockets or missiles. Artillery shells are sometimes travelling at 2 times the speed of sound or more and are sometimes as small as a brick. This is some scarily impressive shooting here people. No human could EVER perform this feat. This also gives you an idea of just what it would be like to really fight a robot army. Can they make a headshot with every bullet they fire? Why YES, thay can! Humanity will not win against the machine army, should it ever come to that. ~Eric