Indeed. Right now laser systems are feasible as weapons on ships... who have their own gigantic diesel engines (and/or nuclear reactors). Energy dissipation o

Indeed. Right now laser systems are feasible as weapons on ships... who have their own gigantic diesel engines (and/or nuclear reactors). Energy dissipation of a laser in atmo is going to require crazy amounts of energy to go even a moderate distance, so either those lasers are being fired from something really close to the airfield, or else you've got some S.H.I.E.L.D style flying aircraft carrier thing.