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Aviation Ping!...................
That does not look like a directed energy weapon to me.
No sir.
I’ve seen this movie before.
I wanted sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!!
Rudolph with your nose so bright,
won’t you guide our bomber group tonight. 🎅🎄
>> A rendering General Atomics previously released depicting a laser weapon-armed Avenger.
“A rendering”. With the requisite fake red laser beam wreaking havoc on the enemy below!
Still, it’s good that America is working on this technology. Hopefully without overly enriching General Atomics for the half-assed results that seem to be the par in technology today. Pardon me! My cynicism is showing. :-)
Osama Bin Laden was given a proper Muslim funeral at sea just like Muslims do, minutes after his death.
It looks a little photoshopped. But it is very cool they are developing this technology. Many years ago drove from Las Vegas to Reno and went by Indian Springs Air Force Base. That was drone central - hundreds on the runways.
We should test it various dictators in China, North Korea, Iran etc. One short burst and a very small hole thru the enemy head.
Pretty cool should it ever come about. A high energy beam traveling at the speed of light virtually removes the need for the user to mentally calculate any deflection (leading a moving target, gravity influenced drop, etc). You hit what is in your sights the instant you pull the trigger. I would guess that the only variable is the distance to the target as the beam may spread and weaken at longer distances.
I wanted sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads!!
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This is the Air Force - the shark version is fielded by the Navy.
Sounds like a logistical nightmare. Couldn’t we just use antifa?
” as long as there is sufficient power and cooling capacity “
Aye, there’s the rub.
Never addressed the issue that I saw in a scan.
“””I wanted sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads!! “””
“”Laser Beams””
These big, slow drones were developed over 2 decades ago and good for ops like surveilance and dropping hellfires undetected - but hard to deploy.
You need total air superiority and there’s huge overhead. You need an airfield and a large infrastructure of equipment and men to run them.
Same person sitting in the cockpit of both MQ-9s?
“All we can say about that is we have a laser.”
My cat lets me play with his.
What sort of power plant is required for the laser? Lots of 12v car batteries wired in series might be too heavy. So small nuclear reactors it is.
Probably lithium batteries..................
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