Military Laser Hits Battlefield Strength
Huge news for real-life ray guns: Electric lasers have hit battlefield strength for the first time — paving the way for energy weapons to go to war.
Noah Shachtman - March 18, 2009
In recent test-blasts, Pentagon-researchers at Northrop Grumman managed to get its 105 kilowatts of power out of their laser — past the “100kW threshold
[that] has been viewed traditionally as a proof of principle for ‘weapons
grade’ power levels for high-energy lasers,” Northrop’s vice president
of directed energy systems, Dan Wildt, said in a statement.
That much power won’t get you a Star Wars-style blaster. But it should be more than enough to zap the mortars and rockets that insurgents have used to pound American bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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March 22nd, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Wouldn`t matter if we control Government, for which we need *real* democracy. Technology will go on one way or the other, we can`t stop it, we can only try to be the Government before it becomes too powerful as a tool for oppression.
It seems a bit worrying that people don`t seem to worry about all this technology in the hands of Governments who are known to be corrupt.
March 24th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
your calebration strength is off , your out put should be set higher .. this would balance your problems with the wattage problem your having .. that is to say you can only fire the lazer for a small fraction of time . its continus use as you know would melt the system , however .. even in this instance a heavier alloy will be needed for in theater testing …..
March 24th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
if you use this weapon in combat you will kill many people .. this research should be used for in space flight applications … yet due to the human nature of course .. i doubt that will ever happen… if the applications however were to be used inspace.. your cooling system would not be a factor . the range and targeting equitment could be simplistic . using satalite tracking systems . you could shoot at a target 4 miles in space. however the wattage will need to be increased to 1,002.6 k W