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DARPA testing planes with a 'Star Wars'-style laser cannon
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| 16 Sep 2014
| Eric Mack
Posted on 09/16/2014 11:08:57 AM PDT by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon
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posted on
09/16/2014 11:10:19 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: mandaladon
One shot deal? One charged shot, or else you have to figure out how to build a very powerful onboard laser energizer small enough to fit into the aircraft while perhaps carrying other ordinance as well. Wow.
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posted on
09/16/2014 11:13:40 AM PDT
by
Obadiah
(None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.)
To: mandaladon
on a clear day you can laser forever....
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posted on
09/16/2014 11:15:18 AM PDT
by
12th_Monkey
(One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
To: mandaladon
>>>science has discovered how to create a real-life lightsaber
Wait...WHAT? Where is that?
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posted on
09/16/2014 11:15:20 AM PDT
by
prisoner6
(Stop the Stupid)
To: mandaladon
ABL = cancelled by the Zero.
ATL = still under development and has been for quite a while while the technology is being refined.
This laser weapon thing is not new.
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posted on
09/16/2014 11:21:17 AM PDT
by
Hulka
To: mandaladon
Can they mount it on sharks? Seems like that is the important question left out.
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posted on
09/16/2014 11:21:35 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
To: prisoner6
LOL, The stock in prosthetic limbs will skyrocket on that day...
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posted on
09/16/2014 11:21:57 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: mandaladon
Okay now a real question.
give 360-degree coverage
Seems to me, if I was on that plane, I wouldn't want 360° coverage in all directions that laser can aim. about 180°, tops.
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posted on
09/16/2014 11:25:35 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
To: prisoner6
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posted on
09/16/2014 11:27:04 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
To: thackney
Carry two pods. One above and below fuselage.
To: thackney
>>> fired a few photons into a vacuum chamber with a cloud of extremely cold rubidium atoms
So it works only in a (sorta) vacuum in the presence of rubidium atoms - so it’s not really a vacuum.
No mention of being able to use it as a weapon.
So it’s an incredibly complicated, impractical flashlight that more than likely requires a huge and probably immobile power supply.
meh. Not a light sabre.
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posted on
09/16/2014 11:38:13 AM PDT
by
prisoner6
(Stop the Stupid)
To: Resolute Conservative
I would still like some software (or better yet, hardware) blocking features in the direction of the wings and other important parts.
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posted on
09/16/2014 11:43:20 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
To: prisoner6; All
"sabre"
I think; I understand what your sayin'..how about a x-ray laser, powered by a high-energy
pulse..say an high-energy capacitor, powered by bleeding off power from engines.
using an high altitude semi-atomious drone on a scram-jet platform?
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posted on
09/16/2014 12:07:12 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics in always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8^)
To: Obadiah
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posted on
09/16/2014 12:15:35 PM PDT
by
rdcbn
To: skinkinthegrass
Well, I want my flying car too.
This comes close but no seegar.
http://www.e-volo.com/
Personal, electric copter. Have to search the site for the cool vids. 20 min flight time. Not ready for prime time.
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posted on
09/16/2014 12:16:07 PM PDT
by
prisoner6
(Stop the Stupid)
To: mandaladon
There was the Airborne Laser (747) which was designed to shoot down ballistic missiles, but that was cancelled a couple of years ago.
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posted on
09/16/2014 12:20:34 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: mandaladon
We don't have X-wing fighters just yet
Says who?
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posted on
09/16/2014 12:24:49 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Uninstall Fascist Firefox. Get Pale Moon.)
To: mandaladon
I can just imagine a flight of laser equipped Anti-Air BUFFs leading smaller bombers on a strike.
Wouldn't that be interesting?
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posted on
09/16/2014 12:25:38 PM PDT
by
LonePalm
(Commander and Chef)
To: prisoner6
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posted on
09/16/2014 12:26:37 PM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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