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German Laser Weapon Can Shoot A Drone Out Of The Sky
MSN.now ^ | 24 December 2012

Posted on 12/25/2012 6:42:52 PM PST by zeestephen

Or even hit a mortar round mid-air before it's had a chance to explode. The machine fires a 30 kW primary laser and a 20 kW secondary laser that can slice through a steel girder at about 1,000 yards.

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To: JoeProBono

I don’t know what it is but I like it.


41 posted on 12/25/2012 8:14:53 PM PST by BipolarBob (Bitter, clinging to my Bible and AR-15.)
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To: Gandalf_The_Gray

I imagine those containers are for the equipment. Pretty amazing that such advanced stuff is so portable. Of course to be of any use it would need to be. Let’s hope they stay in the right hands.


42 posted on 12/25/2012 8:18:49 PM PST by 21twelve (So I [God] gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. Psalm 81:12)
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To: mikrofon; Charles Henrickson; zeestephen

Ich bin ein burngirder.


43 posted on 12/25/2012 8:19:30 PM PST by martin_fierro (Incoherent Lite)
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To: KoRn

Snappy German uniforms, gadgets, weapons, etc. ...

Yeah they always look sharp signing surrender documents.
:^)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2341234/posts


44 posted on 12/25/2012 8:20:01 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: tumblindice
Yeah...but our Michelle la belle Antoinette Obama with a shovel can beat your fat lady with a spear any time


45 posted on 12/25/2012 8:29:11 PM PST by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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To: mikrofon

Das VolksLampenflashischeinhittenzummerwafflejaegerzapper


46 posted on 12/25/2012 8:40:57 PM PST by bunkerhill7 (jah??)
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To: bunkerhill7

Ja, das schmokegedunka, das glimmer blinken, der drizzelgeflippen.


48 posted on 12/25/2012 8:49:57 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month)
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To: zeestephen

Good thing they didn’t have these at Rostov in late ‘41!


49 posted on 12/25/2012 8:54:47 PM PST by toddausauras (FUBO x 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)
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To: Seizethecarp

“Anti-aircraft laser unveiled at Farnborough Airshow” (video of shoot UAV shoot down) 2010

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10682693

“US firm Raytheon has unveiled its anti-aircraft laser at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire.

“The Laser Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) can either be used on its own or alongside a gunnery system.

“In May, the laser was used to shoot down unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a series of tests.

“Raytheon said the solid state fibre laser produces a 50 kilowatt beam and can be used against UAV, mortar, rockets and small surface ships.”

“’We’ve tied this into Phalanx, the US Navy’s anti-missile defence system that links a multiple barrelled 20mm Gatling gun to a radar guidance mechanism.’”


50 posted on 12/25/2012 8:58:51 PM PST by Seizethecarp (Defend aircraft from "runway kill zone" mini-drone helicopter swarm attacks: www.runwaykillzone.com)
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To: zeestephen

I want a laser pistol that can slice through a steel girder at 1,000 yards... Time for DARPA to offer a big prize to all our starving university inventor teams out there! Just as such teams got busy and came up with self-navigating dune buggies that could successfully traverse a vast stretch of desert without human intervention about 50 years before anyone predicted it’d be done, maybe someone could quickly come up with the aforementioned pistol (or rifle — either one would be cool with me), if the reward was sufficiently great. God knows we need it.


51 posted on 12/25/2012 9:08:24 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: Seizethecarp

Northrop demonstrated shooting down artillery/mortar rounds several years ago.

Good to see people catching up.


52 posted on 12/25/2012 9:36:23 PM PST by donmeaker (Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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To: zeestephen
"...can slice through a steel girder at about 1,000 yards."

Holy smokes (no pun intended). Never thought I'd live to see ray guns developed, but here they are. Wow.

53 posted on 12/25/2012 9:38:25 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: F15Eagle

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/laser-04r.html

Northrop demonstrated superior technology in 2004.


54 posted on 12/25/2012 9:40:51 PM PST by donmeaker (Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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To: KoRn
I saw a documentary on some of the stuff the Germans were doing back then, and it was amazing to consider they were doing it during that time period. They were working on many things that were well ahead of their time.


55 posted on 12/25/2012 9:45:33 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier
Well at least there weren't any warp nacelles hanging off the sides of that sucker :)
56 posted on 12/25/2012 10:01:09 PM PST by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: The Cajun
Well at least there weren't any warp nacelles hanging off the sides of that sucker :)

Naw, they were way ahead of Gene Rodenberry :-)

57 posted on 12/25/2012 10:10:13 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: spokeshave

Hmm...sorta reminds me of winnie mandela and her machetes and gas filled tires. I guess moochelle is the clean up act.


58 posted on 12/25/2012 10:33:31 PM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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To: zeestephen; All
does it come in desert camo?..I'll take 2.

59 posted on 12/25/2012 11:43:58 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (Who'll take tomorrow,spend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0Bama man can :-)
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To: zeestephen

Where do you plug it in ? All these comments and nobody brings up how it gets the juice to fire up .


60 posted on 12/26/2012 12:24:02 AM PST by mosesdapoet ("A voice crying in the wilderness make streight for the way of the Lord")
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