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Meet 'Silent Hunter' - China's New 'Armored Vehicle Slicing' Laser Gun
www.zerohedge.com ^ | Mar 2, 2017 6:45 AM | by Tyler Durden

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: china
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To: Red Badger
This could have been useful as a "enhanced interrogation" device....



41 posted on 03/02/2017 11:20:18 AM PST by ObozoMustGo2012 ("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
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To: Sasparilla

It might work a few times or last several years.

HF stuff is a roll of the dice.


42 posted on 03/02/2017 11:21:06 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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Slice? Maybe if hooked to a nuclear reactor. Punch holes? Absolutely.


43 posted on 03/02/2017 11:21:57 AM PST by USCG SimTech
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To: Carthego delenda est
I’d like to see this sort of technology incorporated into power tools. Instead of lugging around a 15 lb worm drive Skilsaw, it would be a 5 lb laser saw with a 12 inch cut depth. Or instead of using a heavy and noisy chainsaw, how about some kind of light saber like tool for cutting down trees or bucking up firewood. How about a laser drill press or hand held “drill” using lasers.

While their at it, make laser machetes. They could market them as "light sabers."

44 posted on 03/02/2017 11:24:24 AM PST by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: Red Badger

We just need to make something bigger, badder, faster, and more lethal. And while we’re at it, clamp down on sensitive technology transfers to china through scholastic espionage, and root out spies at our national labs.


45 posted on 03/02/2017 11:28:06 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: BlueLancer

“It would seem to me that any reasonable amount of battlefield dust or smoke would diffuse ...”

Possibly a laser that powerful would vaporize dust/smoke/fog that was in it’s way - up to a certain point.

The shell of a car is very thin metal compared to the shell of an armored vehicle or tank.

In any event, I wouldn’t want that thing pointed at me.


46 posted on 03/02/2017 11:30:13 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: Red Badger

Just one more step towards the opening scenes of the first Terminator film.


47 posted on 03/02/2017 11:37:34 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Destro’s mask with enough polish might be a viable defense.


48 posted on 03/02/2017 11:37:52 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Red Badger

I’m sure someone else has already thought of this, but how about shooting out a cloud of miniature corner cube retroreflectors when a laser strike is detected? Unless the laser pulse is very short, the beam will be reflected BACK where it came from, albeit much distorted.


49 posted on 03/02/2017 11:45:03 AM PST by darth
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To: Dogbert41

Hope the Chinese don’t get any ideas from the old Star Blazers.

The Gamelons used mirrors.


50 posted on 03/02/2017 11:50:07 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: xkaydet65

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7uC5m-IRns


51 posted on 03/02/2017 11:53:25 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Dogbert41

Over? With 1 kilometer range the horizon will not even be getting nervous.


52 posted on 03/02/2017 11:53:58 AM PST by TalonDJ
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

“Do you expect me to talk Goldfinger”? “No Mr. Bond...I expect you to die!!” Classic!


54 posted on 03/02/2017 12:06:00 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: Vendome

They sent their kids to US universities..................


56 posted on 03/02/2017 12:09:22 PM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Always wondered if they paid the Japanese production company copyright fees for the name.


57 posted on 03/02/2017 12:12:03 PM PST by xkaydet65
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To: Red Badger
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58 posted on 03/02/2017 12:18:53 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: Red Badger

I can’t watch YouTube unless I go somewhere with public wifi, it just uses up my data plan way too fast.


59 posted on 03/02/2017 12:34:12 PM PST by Carthego delenda est
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To: Red Badger

“They sent their kids to US universities..................”

Yep, and the Uniparty is just fine with it. No need for background checks for ANYBODY who wants to come into our country.


60 posted on 03/02/2017 12:39:11 PM PST by Carthego delenda est
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