h--p://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/20/raygun-breakthrough-revolutionize-naval-power/?test=faces

Yes, I know it's Fox News, and not a tech source. However it is the first I have seen on this alleged breakthrough.

F of intent.

 

For it to do us any good, it would have to not have been defunded during the Clinton years, it would have to be prototyped for test now as a megawatt class weapon, and it would have to shoot straight UP.    

As a program exercise, if the engineers at Raytheon and Boeing can scale up an order of magnitude in time to field deploy a  working weapon (by 2015), we could still solve a lot of sins.

 

With the current crop of 'heroes' in the DoN and in the industry, though, don't waste time hoping for a miracle.

 

H.

   

     

Harold I have a few questions:

 

1. Do we build a ship class around the FEL, or fit current designs with it?

2. Wont this thing require nuclear power?

3. Aren't ballistic missiles hardened against heat effects (Re-entry), and resistant to lasers?

4. and finally wont this thing be effected by fog, clouds, sea spray, ect?

 

No and no..
No.