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Army's New Laser Weapon Can Shoot Down Mortars and Drones
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| 21 Dec 2013
| Luis Martinez
Posted on 12/22/2013 7:30:54 AM PST by shove_it
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Nice foto of a truck without a laser on it.
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posted on
12/22/2013 7:30:54 AM PST
by
shove_it
To: shove_it
Should be an effective riot control tool.Be good on the southern border when equipped with motion and heat sensors.
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posted on
12/22/2013 7:35:56 AM PST
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: shove_it
So far the Army's laser testing program has cost about $13 million a year since it began in 2011. This seems incredibly inexpensive. Less than an 0bama vacation.
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posted on
12/22/2013 7:41:05 AM PST
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
To: shove_it
Looks to me like the photographer cut off most of the laser on top.
To: shove_it
lets hold up till the POSOTUS is out of office before we give him any new weapons....
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posted on
12/22/2013 7:42:17 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: shove_it
As long as they can miniaturize it down to the point they can put those sharks everything is good!
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posted on
12/22/2013 7:42:43 AM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
To: shove_it
Remember when the Serbs succeeded in shooting down our stealth bomber with a microwave oven during Clinton’s Wag the Dog War on Christians?
Wonder if that would work on drones.....
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posted on
12/22/2013 7:43:41 AM PST
by
txrefugee
To: shove_it
So far the Army's laser testing program has cost about $13 million a year since it began in 2011. Am I the only one who thinks that is ridiculously cheap?
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posted on
12/22/2013 7:44:57 AM PST
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: txrefugee
Remember when the Serbs succeeded in shooting down our stealth bomber with a microwave oven...? Not exactly.
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posted on
12/22/2013 7:46:04 AM PST
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: Jack Hydrazine
As long as they can miniaturize it ... The humpable "return to sender" version sounds good.
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posted on
12/22/2013 7:52:28 AM PST
by
shove_it
(long ago Orwell and Rand warned us of ObamaÂ’s America)
To: txrefugee
That ‘Stealth Bomber’ (the F-117) was almost 20 years old when that happened. Notice how the Chinese and Russians still haven’t been able to replicate our technology, even a decade later? Now with drones, stealth tech may not even matter.
And what happens when these lasers are turned on protesting crowds of hungry people because of hyperinflation?
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posted on
12/22/2013 8:00:55 AM PST
by
Azeem
(There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo.)
To: shove_it
When is a truck that size ever around mortar fire?
If you can get that in close enough to be useful, you can get artillery in to blast the mortar source.
Israel is one of the few practical applications.
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posted on
12/22/2013 8:08:39 AM PST
by
G Larry
To: txrefugee
There is a lot more to that story than just using “creative” means.
The one thing I’ll say is this; the F117’s mission planning was controlled and authorized by....NATO.
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posted on
12/22/2013 8:10:09 AM PST
by
SZonian
(Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
To: shove_it
Does it work against hypersonic anti-carrier missiles?
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posted on
12/22/2013 8:13:10 AM PST
by
VanShuyten
("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
To: shove_it
Can they put it on frikkin' sharks' heads?
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posted on
12/22/2013 8:13:37 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: shove_it
Put enough energy on anything and it’ll blow
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posted on
12/22/2013 8:14:26 AM PST
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: txrefugee
Sarcasm. . .right? One never knows these days. . .
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posted on
12/22/2013 8:23:32 AM PST
by
Hulka
To: VanShuyten
“Does it work against hypersonic anti-carrier missiles?”
Compared to the speed of light,those missiles may as well be standing in one place.
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posted on
12/22/2013 8:27:50 AM PST
by
puppypusher
( The World is going to the dogs.)
To: Hulka
GIVES US THE advantage in Korea-a good place to (re)start a war and END it.
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posted on
12/22/2013 8:29:58 AM PST
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: Straight Vermonter
>> Am I the only one who thinks that is ridiculously cheap? No ... two years, less than $40 million, and they have functioning hardware. That's what a taxpayer wants.
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