Posted on 09/23/2015 12:17:28 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Just wow. Get that down to man-portable size and I’ll take one. Just the thing for fly season around here.
Drones with freakin’ lasers on their heads!
Forget sharks.
Meh, drones with regular old guns and bombs are surely going to be more practical and versatile.
If lasers were in a usable state for warfare, we’d be putting them on all our ships and tanks first, not bothering with drones. This is a publicity stunt, I think, to drum up funding for more military laser research.
I just love how these Popular Mechanix type articles gloss over minor issues like where does the power for this come from?
Obama’s new military will be green, they will be solar... /sarc
You have to ask???
Haha!
Drones with guns and bombs are going to be more vulnerable. So are manned aircraft.
If lasers were in a usable state for warfare, wed be putting them on all our ships and tanks first, not bothering with drones.
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Go to the article. They have a video of a ship with a 30kw laser.
I’d like to see the system used for surgical anti-personnel strikes. Fry a few goatf*****s and let the rest cower in fear....
I just love how these Popular Mechanix type articles gloss over minor issues like where does the power for this come from?
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According to the article, rechargeable batteries. They can get off five to six shots on one charge. The system is being designed for a drone with a 3000 pound payload capacity.
Funny, I thought that we had long been using things like targeting pods on aircraft to designate ground targets for bombs and missiles.
Nah. I’d just go to the ‘Annihilate’ setting. Turn to 11.
Yeah, one ship? I said all of our ships... one ship is still just a test case, not tech in a usable, deployable state.
Roger that. 150KW is a lot of power. What's going to generate it, or store it? That will weigh a fair bit, how will the drone get it, a laser, itself, and a fuel supply for itself in the air?
We ARE putting them on our ships. And as for putting them on tanks... they are line of sight so it is better to have them in the air anyway. Also shooting a bunker with a laser is not as effective as shooting it with a cannon. Aircraft are not insulated with cement.
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