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To: clueless idiot
One thing they keep forgetting - a laser will not penetrate thick cloud cover or heavy fog. Railguns are the way to go.
6 posted on 12/05/2001 12:04:39 PM PST by Ford Fairlane
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To: Ford Fairlane
Charged Particles Mr. Muntz. Charged Particles!
8 posted on 12/05/2001 12:12:30 PM PST by Falcon4.0
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To: Ford Fairlane
One thing they keep forgetting - a laser will not penetrate thick cloud cover or heavy fog.

Nor battlefield or man-made smoke, presumably. There may be ways around this.

Question I have is: how quickly can these things shoot? And if THEL costs $3000 per shot, couldn't you just shell Israel into bankruptcy?

10 posted on 12/05/2001 12:30:28 PM PST by r9etb
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To: Ford Fairlane
Certain wavelengths will penetrate smoke and fog. Aside from that I am skeptical this will be in use anytime in the next 10 years.
39 posted on 12/06/2001 10:13:14 AM PST by subterfuge
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