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.
It’s just a video of the plasma cutter available at Harbor Freight. It cuts thru steel plate 3/8” it looks like a laser..............
Yeah, I use them fairly regularly. The Chinese ones fall apart fast, that’s why a Red or Blue machine costs 3-4 times as much (and why I don’t have one yet).
Now you know where the name ‘Chinese junk’ came from...................
And they did it all without retribution.
That’s why it will happen again. The elite are never held accountable.
Power source you ask? Two choices A) a steam turbine of the same size (but not nuclear driven maybe wood or perhaps coal?) as powers the USS Gerald Ford (CVN 78) or, B) a full on nuclear reactor with a very long extension cord ...
And they did it all without retribution.
That’s why it will happen again. The elite are never held accountable.
“Now you know where the name ‘Chinese junk’ came from....”
That makes it a rerry old Chinese tradition!
their should be they're (whoops)
Don’t discount the uses of the disco ball.
https://youtu.be/eFbPNHdKBc0?t=15m34s
One of my favorite and very underrated cartoons.
Now thats crazy never heard of that one going to have to watch more then I guess seek help
Captain Simian didn’t live that long but it had Jerry Doyle and used a lot of satire.
“A stupid plan is better than no plan”.
I have one on order. I’m gonna use it for popping balloons in the rumpus room. My neighbor’s rumpus room. He lives in Montana.
http://cns-alumni.bu.edu/~slehar/PhaseConjugate/PhaseConjugate.html
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