[egarvue]

Hmm...range: 200 miles. Velocity of weapon: speed of light. Targeting system: precision. Size of impact: basketball. Effect on target: melting. Missile defense? Nah...what we have here is the worlds greatest sniper rifle. Go ahead, Castro, give that speech to your communist flunkies from the stadium tomorrow....

[Walkingfeather]

eeewww...... you'd have to sandblast castro off the back wall..... if you could find the wall

[ArrogantBustard]

That would sure light up his cigar. Not sure it would have any other effect; the man seems invulnerable to assassination attempts.

[section9]

First, take the stated range and at least double it. A lot of this is fluff designed to mislead the Usual Suspects as to this weapon's true capabilities.

The U.S. is basically going to start investing in a fleet of these things, sort of like "airborne battleships". The beam itself will probably be adjustible (that is, narrowed) from your basketball sized shotgun blast to a precision pencil point.

Naturally, that tall, white robed, Arabic-lookin' feller in the turban is history once this thing gets a bead on him.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[MrB]

Go ahead, Castro, give that speech

Opening sequence of the movie "Real Genius".