Posted 10/3/2014 07:25 (#4106527 - in reply to #4104976) Subject: RE: US Navy unveils new futuristic weapon.
The real practical benefit is that it can deliver the destructive power of aircraft, at the range of some aircraft, with no aircraft. You can't lob artillery shells hundreds of miles with pinpoint accuracy, but these you can. You can get a lot of the force projection of a carrier in something the size of a destroyer.