Posted on 03/02/2017 10:41:02 AM PST by Red Badger
The Silent Hunter laser is powerful enough to cut through light vehicle armor at up to a kilometer away, making you wonder if China already has more powerful laser weapons only for domestic use. ============================================================================================================================
Poly Technologies showed off The Silent Hunter, one of the world's most powerful laser weapons. It claims an output of at least 50-70 kilowatts, which would make it more powerful than the 33-kilowatt laser weapon systems (LaWS) currently deployed on the USS Ponce. The laser is probably based on a smaller anti-drone laser, the Low Altitude Guard.
That's enough to knock out automobiles by burning out their engines from over a mile away, as the 30-kilowatt Lockheed Martin ATHENA laser demonstrated in 2015. The Silent Hunter uses fibre optic lasers (fibre optics doped with rare earth minerals), which provide weight savings over chemical lasers through increasing optical gain by kilometers of coiled fibre optics (as opposed to bulky chemical lasers).
The Silent Hunter is likely to be scaled up and equipped with radars to complement its optical/infrared tracking system, making it a capable close range defense system against enemy missiles, artillery, drones and aircraft.
The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) recently came out with report that China is "near parity" with western nations in terms of indigenous defense technology.
As we can see from IDEX 2017, that is playing out in fields that range from tanks to lasers. And as the Chinese defense industry innovates more, it will likely grab an even bigger share of international arms sales.
There were reports of us having something like this during the Panama invasion.
LOL we can just place active mirror tech on our tanks and bounce it off or reflect it back at them.
Coming soon to a Harbor Freight near you. It’ll be in the barbeque grill aisle.
Trade Show.................
Why they are not being tried and executed like rosenbergs?
Specular reflection may be a defense and can potentially turn the weapon against itself.
What’s the power source of the mobile version?
LOL
Or a simple smoke bomb..............also from China..............
They cannot fire a laser over the horizon. A ship can fire cannon and missiles over the horizon.
That's how it was shipped to the trade show from principal contractor MARS (James McCullen Destro XXIII, chairman and CEO).
“Thank the Clinton Crime Family for selling high tech know-how to the ChiComs back in the 90s.”
Clinton enabled the ChiComs to advance thier missle tech a decade in a matter of months through a Rat donors company. Bernard Scwartz was his name l think. Bush did NOTHING as usual.
The A-10 Warthog made tanks and this toy obsolete decades ago.
IIRC Japanese movie producers deployed just such an offensive defensive eespon in The Mysterians 1957.
Kim Jong Un has been wanting one of these for getting rid of his officers without using mortar rounds or anti-aircraft guns.
“Keeping it simple for the chi-coms. in theater use of a laser, far more powerful— from the US side— would come from space,”
Maybe that’s one of the missions the X-37 spends time in space fiddling with.
“Thank the Clinton Crime Family for selling high tech know-how to the ChiComs back in the 90s.”
2 posted on 3/2/2017, 11:43:53 AM by BenLurkin
Nope. No manufacturing there.
Hey, let’s give fissile nuclear material to evile Russia while we’re at it!
Must. Have. More. Enemies!
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