美海军将在 '庞塞号' 上部署激光武器

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VOA Chinese, Feb 18, 2014
www.voachinese.com/content/us-navy-20140218/1853831.html

, which is translated from

US Navy to Deploy Next Generation of Weapons. VOA, Feb 18, 2014
www.voanews.com/content/us-navy- ... eapons/1853674.html
(Laser on USS Ponce now and rail gun in coming months)

Note:
(a) It is unclear why US military adopts a low profile: no announcement in the websites of Pentagon or US Navy.
(b) USS Ponce (LPD-15)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Ponce_(LPD-15)
(named for [City of] Ponce in Puerto Rico, which in turn was named after the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León, the first governor of Puerto Rico and European discoverer of Florida)

The "c" in "Ponce" is pronounced the Latin American way: "s." See
Consonant: c. StudySpanish.com, undated
www.studyspanish.com/pronunciation/letter_c.htm
("When appearing in the combinations 'ce' and 'ci,' the 'c' is softer. Spaniards pronounce this like the 'z,' while Latin Americans pronounce it like the 's'")
(c) Juan Ponce de León
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Ponce_de_Le%C3%B3n
(Ponce set sail from Hispaniola "until April 2, 1513, when they sighted land which Ponce de León believed was another island. He named it La Florida in recognition of the verdant landscape and because it was the Easter season, which the Spaniards called Pascua Florida (Festival of Flowers). The following day they came ashore * * * The precise location of their landing on the Florida coast has been disputed for many years")

pascua (n; from Vulgar Latin pascua,from Ancient Greek paskha passover, from Hebrew):
"1(Christianity) Easter
2(Judaism) Passover"
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pascua