I wonder how a vehicle covered by corner cubes would work out.
Is this real?
The whole comment about World’s evil shark-owning billionaires unimpressed, gives me pause...
The not particularly awesome result was announced by Boeing, maker of the ATL, yesterday.
Not impressive? Place the laser so as to pierce the gas tank and watch what happens.
Devestating to the enemy when used in combat. Consider the financial ruin of your opponent, having to repair fenders and get paint jobs. If they have MAACO, they may be able to recover to fight another day.
Twenty years and how many millions, one hole in one fender. Wonderful. SAC off.
Will the laser work if the target has a mirror finish?
Just asking.
Look out, bumperstickers!!
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For sale: Brand New Boeing Laser
Spent many millions (possibly billions, I didn’t do military service) developing this weapon to equip US troops with the best weapons. Will only sell to enemies of the United States and those that demean her.
Contact: Barry O (aka President Carter the Worse)
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC
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this tech could also easily work as defense against AA missiles, something that grows more important as enemies are researching new ways to detect stealthy aircraft.
You’d send in a squadron defense aircraft armed like this, and it would shoot down the missiles aimed by defenders against the attacking element of aircraft. Attackers could simply stay on target.
Or you’d have an unihabited smaller version escort a flight of anti-ship missiles. This l’il guy would shoot down the defending missiles, leaving all friendly missiles intact until the closing phase, where they would only be attrited by CWIS.
I want to see how the Hercules transport plane transformed into a gunboat. That’s gotta be way cool.
“The not particularly awesome result...”
I suspect similar near-verbatim quotes might be found from sword-weilders
about the first few shots from the first blunder-busses and muskets.
But you might not be able to locate such quotes.
Because after a bit of perfecting of said gunpowder-powered throwers
of lead...those same sword-yielders went to the rubbish-heap of
history at a much younger age than untold generation of their
sword-bearing ancestors.
And they bled out before they could scrawl out in their blood an
account of how a simple country rube with a musket (and absolutely no
skill with any sort of sword) mortally wounded them FAR beyond the
reach of any sword.
Imagine this device used on people. Naturally the Warsaw Convention means we’d never do that.
Vehicle NOT moving, didn’t even see a hole completely through, and that was the hood of the vehicle, not the fender.