| Boat (64) |  |
| Ferry (9) | |
| Pram (10) | |
| Raft (16) | |
| Small boat (5) | |
| Tugboat (6) | |
and small boats, should the need arise. The 30-kilowatt laser weapon system (Laws) is housed aboard the USS Ponce,
In recent tests, Laws successfully hit targets aboard a small boat that was speeding toward the Navy ship.
In a 2011 test, a laser weapon disabled multiple small boats launched from a U s. warship. And in 2012, Laws downed several drones during a naval test of the system t
It s very expensive for port security to use traditional robots for every small boat coming into the port says Sampriti Bhattacharyya a graduate student in mechanical engineering who designed the robot together with her advisor Ford Professor of Engineering
but autonomy and swarming have the potential for so much more than just intercepting small boats. Klunder says that
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