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To: Flavius
Faster than the speed of light?


5 posted on 09/29/2008 8:08:40 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Gondring

Mach 5 refers to 5 times the speed of sound.


21 posted on 09/29/2008 8:32:57 PM PDT by B4Ranch (I'd rather have a VP that can gut a Moose, than a President that wants to gut our Second Amendment!)
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To: Gondring
Faster than the speed of light?

Irrelevant. First THEL doesn't actually work -- see the Hezbollah War for proof.

Second, the THEL has to paint the warhead for a sufficient amount of time before it heats up enough to explode. If it's moving faster, it'll have less exposure time before the laser is out of range.

Third, THEL is extremely vulnerable to countermeasures. So even if THEL worked as designed, and you were able to paint a hypersonic target, it would still be easy to cover an incoming warhead with a reflective coating.

29 posted on 09/29/2008 8:45:00 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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