According to an Oct. 25 Boeing announcement, the U.S. Army has awarded a Boeing and General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems team a contract to develop a 300-kilowatt solid-state laser weapon.This will be the most powerful laser to date.As per the statement, the program will eventually see the system being demonstrated to the US Army’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office or RCCTO.Viewers may note that the weapon is formally called the “Distributed Gain High Energy Laser Weapon System” or DGHELWS.In this video Defense Updates analyzes how the new 300-kilowatt solid-state laser weapon of the US Army is a technological leap?