Interesting.
It poses a few questions.
The video is edited and choppy so there is no time reference for how long the beam needed to be on target to ignite the engine housing.
How would it do against a moving target verses an anchored boat?
And why did they see the need to test it using a fairly new boat worth well over $50,000?
I know several boatyards that would have gladly sold them a dozen old clunkers for short money.
The old boats would have been a more realistic recreation of what Somali pirates are using.
Or was it just a waste of tax money to get business to a marina owned by a Congressman?