You misunderstood me Ten megawatts is close to the maximum its what theyve long planned for that  I subscribe to Aviation Week  Space Technology and if I recall correctly theyve recently flow around and dumped  MW into an onboard calorimeter Once they get the thing throwing beams away from the plane and get everything shaken out its supposed to be downing ICBMs with  MW A beam flux of  megawatt per square centimeter and a fourcentimeterdiameter beam equates to  MW which is certainly close to this realworld but exceedingly powerful laser particularly since the example doesnt even mention the  The whole point of that sentence is to give readers a much better appreciation of these bigass numbers like  I wouldnt have been the least bit surprised if my watt Inova T could have produced that quantity of photons after running its lithium cell down Baseten math sneaks up on you quickly