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I hope this works how it sounds. The development of fighter planes, missiles and bombs, and drones has pretty grossly given an edge to invading militaries, able to quickly enter territory and do tremendous amounts of damage, especially to civilian life.
Being a bulky, heavy weapon with a reliance on a lot of electricity should hopefully encourage this for defensive use, and if it can keep all those flying invaders in check this could be a boon against war.
The SK version is bulky and heavy because it's their 1st Gen however other countries already have versions that are significantly smaller, lighter, and fully mobile.
Actually what im seeing from other countries are even larger and heavier technologies. I mean all of these can be mobilized as low speed ground vehicles, a far cry from the mobility and invasive potential of aircraft. Its the energy requirement thats the kicker, and the weight of batteries. Which is why we're only seeing this technology being deployed as stationary anti air defense. Its a nice bonus that lasers have to travel in a straight line so we dont have to worry about long range trajectory attacks like with ICBM's.
The only downside im seeing so far is surprisingly limited range hampering its ability to handle incoming supersonic targets.
Someone should let the US Army know. 😎
The US already has a DEW unit that fits in a UTV (Side by Side) for shooting down smaller drones...and they had it back in 2022.
The US also has a more powerful palletized version that fits in the bed of a pickup truck.
Then there's the even heavier duty DE M-SHORAD capable knocking down UAVs and Mortar Rounds. It was tested and approved in 2021 and the first units of this are already deployed.
You realize all of these links are of anti-air defense