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Breakthrough Laser Could Revolutionize Navy's Weaponry
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| 1/20/2011
Posted on 01/21/2011 6:27:58 AM PST by Lazamataz
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To: Lazamataz
Great Idea. I’ll take two. How much?
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posted on
01/21/2011 7:18:58 AM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously..... You won't live through it anyway.)
To: JRandomFreeper
Wrong, they have been working on both. And also a rail gun.
To: Lazamataz
Next stop...
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posted on
01/21/2011 7:19:31 AM PST
by
Eepsy
To: JRandomFreeper
As also a retired zoomie I can say not to worry. The AF is doing fine in advancing HEL technology.
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posted on
01/21/2011 7:21:19 AM PST
by
Laserman
To: Lazamataz
This article references putting them on Naval vessels by 2018, and that's using the shipboard power plant. I wonder if shipboard power is required to turn the FEL into a megawatt-class weapon and unneeded for use as a 100 kilowatt weapon. Is that enough to disable enemy fighters/incoming missiles? Could the F-35 be up-amped to power a kilowatt-class FEL?
To: NeverForgetBataan
They have several, check discovery tv, probably have a down loadable vid of them test fired.
To: Lazamataz
Power. That is the sticky wicket.
The Navy has been funding research into a new type of fusion generator which uses static fields to contain the plasma reaction. The configuration is simple, requires very little space (compared to, say, a tokamak), and generates prodigious power. Fusion powered cruisers armed with railguns and FEL CIWS would be formidable platforms.
It would be interesting if the size of the “whiffle ball” reactor could allow it be utilized on an aircraft. Seems the AF wanted to build a nuclear-powered bomber years ago...
http://emc2fusion.org/
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posted on
01/21/2011 7:36:44 AM PST
by
BrewingFrog
(I brew, therefore I am!)
To: Lazamataz
I worked around this puppy for a few years:
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posted on
01/21/2011 7:47:31 AM PST
by
Eagle of Liberty
(formally known as Kerretarded....I changed my name)
To: Eagle of Liberty
Looks like a CO2 system at the AF
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posted on
01/21/2011 7:49:06 AM PST
by
Laserman
To: mmichaels1970
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posted on
01/21/2011 7:54:16 AM PST
by
CMAC51
To: Laserman
Looks like a CO2 system at the AF
Spot on!
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posted on
01/21/2011 7:54:30 AM PST
by
Eagle of Liberty
(formally known as Kerretarded....I changed my name)
To: CMAC51
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posted on
01/21/2011 7:59:03 AM PST
by
KC_Lion
(Lord help our Armed Service members that they not become pawns in Hussein's quest to destroy America)
To: org.whodat
Easier to solve on a large ship than on an airplane, though.
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posted on
01/21/2011 7:59:15 AM PST
by
expatpat
To: JRandomFreeper
More properly COIL LASERS, and yes, where are the railguns so much money has been spent on?
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posted on
01/21/2011 8:12:13 AM PST
by
ASOC
(What are you doing now that Mexico has become OUR Chechnya?)
To: Eepsy
They mostly use fusion bomb-pumped X-ray lasers.
Not something you’d want to mount on a surface ship! You’d only ever get one shot.
To: CMAC51
wasn’t that a Santa Cruz garage band?
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posted on
01/21/2011 8:30:53 AM PST
by
rahbert
To: Lazamataz
I suspect that weaponized “thin air” will be the next item to suffer from unilateral sanctions.
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posted on
01/21/2011 8:31:37 AM PST
by
RobinOfKingston
(An election is not a (national) suicide pact.)
To: Lazamataz
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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posted on
01/21/2011 8:40:12 AM PST
by
The Comedian
("Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" - B. Goldwater)
To: Mr. Lucky
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posted on
01/21/2011 8:48:02 AM PST
by
SC_Pete
To: TexasPatriot1
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