Neat. Calling all video game experts for the ultimate gaming experience!
Posted on 09/01/2011 9:22:35 PM PDT by smokingfrog
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla., 31 Aug. 2011. Laser weapons experts from the Boeing Co. Directed Energy Systems segment in Huntsville, Ala., the BAE Systems U.S. U.S. Combat Systems segment in Minneapolis, and the U.S. Navy have tested a shipboard prototype tactical laser weapon based on the Navy's Mk 38 MOD 2 deck gun, during which experts tested the laser weapon against a simulated attack by fast, maneuvering small attack boats, intermingled with neutral boat traffic.
The tests of the Mk 38 MOD 2 Tactical Laser System (TLS) concept were at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The Mk 38 tactical laser system is a proposed high-energy laser addition to the Mk 38 25 mm heavy machine gun deployed on most of the Navy's surface warships. Tests demonstrated a capability to identify and classify hostile targets and provide rapid hand-off to the Mobile Active Targeting Resource for Integrated Experiments (MATRIX) system for attack, officials say.
The test system fired against surface vessels and aircraft to demonstrate a range of target effects -- including swarm tests against fast, maneuvering small boats, which demonstrated a consistent ability to detect, track, classify and engage threat vessels at tactically relevant ranges, officials say.
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Neat. Calling all video game experts for the ultimate gaming experience!
They`re in hot water now!
I saw a neighbor demonstrate a blue 1100 Mw hand held laser that he bought for $200 bucks. It was amazing! If he can pop balloons at 50 feet, then these Navy lasers should have no problems.
I saw a neighbor demonstrate a blue 1100 Mw hand held laser that he bought for $200 bucks. It was amazing! If he can pop balloons at 50 feet, then these Navy lasers should have no problems.
Will it work on dove?
BTTT!
Yeah, and it saves you a lot of trouble! Kills it, defeathers it, bones it, and roasts it, all in one easy step!
Get these things deployed, like, yesterday.
Awesome.
EV beat me to it.
LOL!
That’ll work.
>>> Shipboard prototype tactical laser weapon engages swarms of small, fast attack boats in Navy tests
Urgently needed but it has to be remembered that a laser is strictly line of sight. If the laser can see the boat then the boat is already in missile launch range.
No problem. They just add the General Dynamics Over-the-Horizon Laser Bender (OTHLB, for short)....and voila!
Do you really want to be wasting missiles on 40, 16 foot speedboats?
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