Boeing Begins Flight Tests and Laser Firings for Laser Gunship Program

Boeing ^ | Oct. 13, 2006

[AmericaUnited]

I'd like to see an order for 50!!

[joe fonebone]

no, they use frickin' lasers........

[aShepard]

.......How do you want your Islamo-Fascists? Regular or Extra Crispy?
.................

Only if we develop the balls to take out everything in sight, and kill all of these cockroaches.

Let's stop playing war with one hand tied around our back!

[NinoFan]

Because it might offend Russia and other countries. I read an article on here about it now too long ago. Will search for it.

[Charles Martel]

Wish we can develop big mirrors in space to protect our satellites and have the ability to manipulate the angle of the mirrors and turn the lasers beams that the Chinese try to blind our satellites back on them.

Yeah, you'd think that NASA would've been using the Shuttle's cargo bay to loft mirror retrofit kits up there, instead of those repetetive and insipid "science experiments".

The mirror trick should be possible; I'm pretty sure that I saw it done on Jonny Quest. ;-)

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

That was my first thought, too!

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

Just use the laser to engage your target through the wall of the building, leaving a dead target and only a smoking hole in the wall of the building.

Imagine if the bad guys are storing IED explosive components in the room.

"WHOOPSIE! Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?"

[naturalized]

ATL will produce scaleable effects, meaning the weapon operator will be able to select the degree and nature of the damage done to a target by choosing a specific aimpoint and laser shot duration.

Stuned him with a beeber.

[zot]

And when shooting at people, the operator can select power settings from "redden skin" to "cremate."

[FlashBack]

The Democrats in Congress are trying to kill anything to do with lasers and the military. This 2006 election is critical to the future of our country.
You got that right...there seems to be alot out there that want to stay home and teach the 'pubbies a lesson....WE CANNOT AFFORD THAT!!!!
Get out and vote as if your lives depend on it because they just might!!!!

[MediaMole]

We need another Freepathon to raise money to get admin moderator one of thes babies.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

We would have thought that they ( US government and the military ) would have put in evasive measures when they built those satellites of any future for seen threats to the satellites.

[ASOC]

"Keyhole" the target and be done with it. We have the weapons in the inventory and in use today.

LASERS, pffft. One sandstorm and you are out of business.

[Sender]

Speaking of fighting a war with one hand tied behind our backs, the main reason that high powered lasers have not already been deployed on the battlefield is that the most common result of illuminating the enemy with a laser is not crispy death, but blindness. Even the beam scatter from taking out a vehicle can blind people not wearing protective eyewear. And blinding the enemy is considered very taboo according to the Gentlemens' Rules of War.