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DARPA Unveils Drone-Slaying War Laser
Fast Company ^
| 3/08/2012
| Neil Ungerleider
Posted on 03/11/2012 10:30:14 PM PDT by U-238
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posted on
03/11/2012 10:30:24 PM PDT
by
U-238
To: U-238
Great. When has Obama scheduled the first shipment to Iran?
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posted on
03/11/2012 10:38:58 PM PDT
by
Boogieman
To: U-238
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posted on
03/11/2012 10:40:34 PM PDT
by
RedCell
(Honor thy Father (9/6/07) - Semper Fi / "...it is their duty, to throw off such government...")
To: U-238
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posted on
03/11/2012 10:41:40 PM PDT
by
mylife
To: U-238
Since laser beams work at the speed of light, it's effectively impossible for aerial targets to dodge them. The use of laser beams against land targets is complicated by line-of-sight issues, but the miniaturization of laser technology makes them perfect for use against aerial and naval targets. Never mind
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posted on
03/11/2012 10:43:10 PM PDT
by
mylife
To: mylife
Maybe the amount of power the laser uses.
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posted on
03/11/2012 10:43:33 PM PDT
by
U-238
I guess its hard to Lob a laser over the horizon
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posted on
03/11/2012 10:45:13 PM PDT
by
mylife
To: mylife
Probably because drones will eventually have the ability to fly faster and will be more agile than manned jets, so they would need something better than a missile to hit them.
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posted on
03/11/2012 10:45:52 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
To: mylife
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posted on
03/11/2012 10:47:10 PM PDT
by
U-238
To: U-238
Wonderful. Let's leave all of the technical data online so China can steal it. /s
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posted on
03/11/2012 10:47:24 PM PDT
by
Theoria
(Rush Limbaugh: Ron Paul sounds like an Islamic terrorist)
To: U-238
All I know is that some punk kid hit me in the eye with a cheapass laser on a toy gun and it hurt like hell for hours
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posted on
03/11/2012 10:47:24 PM PDT
by
mylife
To: mylife
Lasers can do severe eye damage.The FDA issued a warning after two anecdotal reports it received of eye injury from laser pointers
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posted on
03/11/2012 10:49:14 PM PDT
by
U-238
To: Jonty30
That will never happen
A manned craft is infinity better than a remotely controlled craft unless you can program it for a specific route at high speed ala a cruise missile
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posted on
03/11/2012 10:50:20 PM PDT
by
mylife
To: U-238
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posted on
03/11/2012 10:50:52 PM PDT
by
mylife
To: U-238
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posted on
03/11/2012 10:52:26 PM PDT
by
mylife
To: U-238
I suppose you could build a second plane that carried a mirror that had a system that guided the laser to the mirror and using GPS to know the first two points you could use another source to locate the target and work out a firing solution for the mirror.
I would not want to be the middleman with the mirror.
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posted on
03/11/2012 10:59:41 PM PDT
by
mylife
To: mylife
I wouldn’t say never.
I know a drone will never outthink a man, in terms of creativeness. But you don’t to be that creative, if you have billions of cycles per second and has a reaction time of thousandths of a second.
Hard to beat that.
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posted on
03/11/2012 10:59:59 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
I would not want to be the middleman with the mirror.I guess thats what drones are for LOL
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posted on
03/11/2012 11:01:27 PM PDT
by
mylife
To: Jonty30
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posted on
03/11/2012 11:02:52 PM PDT
by
mylife
To: U-238
150-kilowatt High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System, please.
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posted on
03/11/2012 11:06:18 PM PDT
by
kitchen
(Over gunned is better than the alternative.)
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