{"id":741910,"date":"2026-08-18T14:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/741910\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T14:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:10:09","slug":"britain-installs-laser-weapon-on-warships-years-ahead-of-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/741910\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain installs laser weapon on warships years ahead of schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tBritain installs laser weapon on warships years ahead of schedule &#8211; Futura-Sciences<\/p>\n<p>August 18, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            2 min    <\/p>\n<p>            <img width=\"1920\" height=\"1047\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/shock-as-britain-installs-laser-weapon-on-warships-years-ahead-of-schedule.webp\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"The United Kingdom aims to equip its warships with a laser five years ahead of schedule\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n                    The United Kingdom aims to equip its warships with a laser five years ahead of schedule. \u00a9 Janiecbros, iStock<\/p>\n<p>\n            See also\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain installs laser weapon on warships years ahead of schedule &#8211; Futura-Sciences August 18, 2026 2 min The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,73938,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-741910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-tech-innovation","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}