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Boeing and BAE partner to put a laser on a machine gun, make the world a better place
Engadget ^
| 27 July, 2011
| Tim Stevens
Posted on 07/27/2011 9:26:34 AM PDT by James C. Bennett
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Navy’s Next Wonder Weapon Combines a High Speed 25mm Gun With Deadly Laser
http://gizmodo.com/5824804/navy-next-wonder-weapon-is-a-dual-laser-kinetic-machine-gun
Boeing and BAE are building a weapon that combines a traditional M242 autocannon—which fires 175 rounds per minute with a range of 2.5 kilometers—with a high energy laser. They call it the Mk 38 Mod 2 Tactical Laser System.
Similar to the successul Boeing's Laser Avenger—which is being developed for the US Army—the MK 38 Mod 2 combines a powerful Naval 25-mm machine gun with a solid state high-energy laser weapon module.
The laser will be able to target and destroy surface and air targets like small boats and unmanned aerial vehicles. The Navy is excited about it because they can integrate it in current ships with little work.
[Boeing]
To: James C. Bennett
Next, our soldiers will have laser beam on their “frikkin’ heads.”
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posted on
07/27/2011 9:27:46 AM PDT
by
Grunthor
(Faster than the speed of smell.)
To: Grunthor
And the problem with that is...?
Whether you’re ventilated, blown into red mist, or turned crispy-fried by a beam weapon, as long as the ENEMIES of the US are on the receiving end, I’m okay with that.
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posted on
07/27/2011 9:31:59 AM PDT
by
hoagy62
(Help stamp out crack-pull up your pants.)
To: hoagy62
Me too. AWESOME!!! (And pass some marshmallows!!)
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posted on
07/27/2011 9:34:39 AM PDT
by
ZULU
(Crapo, Coburn and Chambliss are a herd of renegade RINOs.)
To: James C. Bennett
With the end of DADT...
To: James C. Bennett
Nothin` new- I saw this in 10 cent Marvel comic books in the 1940`s and 50`s.
To: James C. Bennett
Wasn’t it Buck Rogers that had a Ray Gun ... long ago?
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posted on
07/27/2011 9:37:51 AM PDT
by
OldNavyVet
(One trillion days, at 365 days per year, is 2,739,726,027 years ... almost 3 billion years)
To: James C. Bennett
Boeing has clearly learned the principle of
More Dakka.
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posted on
07/27/2011 9:39:14 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Admin Moderator
Latest tool for your troll-zotting pleasure.
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posted on
07/27/2011 9:41:24 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Grunthor
Next, our soldiers will have laser beam on their “frikkin’ heads.” Are they ill-tempered?
To: Thane_Banquo
No, that would be the Sea Bass.
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posted on
07/27/2011 9:46:46 AM PDT
by
Grunthor
(Faster than the speed of smell.)
To: James C. Bennett
OH NO
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posted on
07/27/2011 9:54:48 AM PDT
by
struggle
To: James C. Bennett
So, when is the next meeting of your chapter of the Luddite Society?
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posted on
07/27/2011 9:55:49 AM PDT
by
Redleg Duke
("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfus)
To: James C. Bennett
Interesting computer aiming problem.
Lead needed for conventional munitions, none for laser.
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07/27/2011 10:01:19 AM PDT
by
Vinnie
To: James C. Bennett
In the uncut version of ALIENS (the second Aliens movie) the Colonial Marines had self targeting machine guns. I have seen them called "Chain Guns", "Auto Guns" or "Sentry Guns". The Marines set them up in a tunnel used by the aliens to gain access to the complex.
It was a great scene but for For some reason this "Tunnel scene" was cut from subsequent releases.
Video: ALIENS: AUTO GUNS
Video: Alien machine gun
Video: "Aliens" Directors Cut "The Tunnel"
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posted on
07/27/2011 10:13:05 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(The more effeminate & debauched the people, the more they are fitted for a tyrannical government.)
To: James C. Bennett
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posted on
07/27/2011 10:30:42 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.' - Homer Simpson)
To: James C. Bennett
The most important question is, will it fit the bed of my Dodge Dually!
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posted on
07/27/2011 10:46:12 AM PDT
by
Boiling point
(Cain / Palin 2012)
To: bunkerhill7
Nothin` new- I saw this in 10 cent Marvel comic books in the 1940`s and 50`s.
That's odd ... there were no Marvel comics then. (The precursors were Timely and Atlas). How about some nice Fawcett or National Periodical Publications (later DC) or Quality comics?
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07/27/2011 11:06:53 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: James C. Bennett
“Shoot what’s available, as long as it’s available, until something else becomes available.”
“The most important rule in a gunfight is: Always win and cheat if necessary.”
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posted on
07/27/2011 11:50:30 AM PDT
by
Recon Dad
( five words most feared by a Louisiana politician: “Will the defendant please rise.”)
To: Dr. Sivana
I might be old but I ain`t senile yet.
`While living in a cabin in the woods of rural Illinois (whoops, wrong history). At any rate, an already established pulp-magazine publisher of the time, Martin Goodman, founded Marvel Comics in 1939. Originally it was grouped together with other subsidiary companies under the umbrella name of Timely Comics. The first publication came out in October of 1939 (see image above) and was dubbed Marvel Comics #1.`
http://www.comic-book-collection-made-easy.com/marvel-comics.html
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