Fighter Planes With Laser Cannons?

This is pretty cool!

The United States Air Force made the announcement that they want fighter planes to be equipped with laser cannons by 2022.  This was reported on by Breaking Defense.  They go on to say that they Air Force wants to mount them on both larger planes and smaller fighter jets.  These hyper-focused lasers can cause a lot of damage, and are already aboard Naval warships, and the Army is developing a truck mounted laser weapon.  For the Air Force to accomplish this, though, they have some serious issues that they will have to address.

Naval ships and trucks both bounce around a lot, but the lasers are still able to work under these conditions.  Airplanes, however, are going to have to come up with a plan to compensate for the breakneck speed and the constant vibrations that jets produce in flight.  It's not an impossible problem to solve, but may take more than the seven years that the Air Force has set for it's target date.

Now, if they could only build us some X-Wings...