USNI News:

The April sinking of Russian cruiser RTS Moskva (121) in the Black Sea by the Ukrainian Navy is prompting the United States Navy to push hard for directed energy defenses on its warships, the service’s top officer told reporters on Tuesday.

Moskva was monitoring the air war above Ukraine when two Neptune anti-ship missiles struck and sank the ship. The Russian ship’s point defense systems – missile and gun systems designed to stop missile threats on their final approach to the warship – failed to thwart the Neptunes, USNI News reported.

When asked about what new developments the Navy is pursuing as a result of a more dangerous security environment, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday told reporters that lasers on ships was high on his list.

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