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Laser Ship Weapons Breakthrough?
buzzard
1/20/2011 3:04:23 PM
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.
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heraldabc
1/20/2011 6:54:49 PM
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.
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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.
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buzzard
1/21/2011 10:08:56 AM
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buzzard
1/21/2011 10:09:21 AM
Thanks for the article. It's nice to get more depth of information.
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jessmo_24
1/27/2011 5:40:06 AM
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?
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heraldabc
1/27/2011 3:15:26 PM
Harold I have a few questions:
1. Do we build a ship class around the FEL, or fit current designs with it?
No and no
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2. Wont this thing require nuclear power?
No
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3. Aren't ballistic missiles hardened against heat effects (Re-entry), and resistant to lasers?
Yes and no.
4. and finally won't this thing be effected by fog, clouds, sea spray, etc.?
Maybe, depends, and no.
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