Spec Ops R&D is always a fun read. This is Star Wars stuff. Hoo-Ahh!
“HELs can even be set for non-lethal effects on people.”
Why? So a future Democrat President can write a strongly-worded letter to some tin-pot wannabe dictator saying “Stand down, or we’ll overcook your tri tip?”
Part of the attraction of lasers and railguns to the Pentagon is the “gee whiz “ high tech stuff, but a more practical is the “ needs no ammo (no exposives)” aspect of easier, never run out reloading. You need fuel for the HEL.
They've had this for quite a while. That they're mounting it now on RWA is impressive, given the minute tolerances in a six dimensional equation required for targeting from a rotary wing aircraft's platform, and that's if the chopper is hovering motionless. Neat trick.
Reducing a threat to total molecular disassembly in a millisecond.
(I gussa gits me summa dat.)
;^)
C'mon Rev, this is just the old Tom Clancy revealing pentagon plans 15 years before they go live.
The last three Tom Clancy novels were junk, written by stand ins, cut and paste, puke.
I have, and have re-read multiple times, every Tom Clancy novel from 'The Hunt For Red October, 1984' 'Red Storm Rising' up to my all time favorite, 'The Bear and The Dragon, year 2000, and all 1028 pages.
Every thing after that, junk and crap.
The 'Teeth of the Tiger' was so poorly written, that there were multiple text screw ups, something that never happened in Clancy's "REAL" novels.
“I want sharks with frickin lasers on their head”
How about an Apache attack helicopter with a frickin high power laser attached to it?
We have HEL systems that can hit artillery shells fired from tanks, and destroy them in mid-flight now.