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DARPA Unveils Drone-Slaying War Laser
Fast Company ^ | 3/08/2012 | Neil Ungerleider

Posted on 03/11/2012 10:30:14 PM PDT by U-238

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To: kitchen

“Plasma rifle in the 40 watt range.”

“Hey, just what you see here pal.”


21 posted on 03/11/2012 11:07:39 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
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To: mylife
I would not want to be the middleman with the mirror.

Why not the plane carrying the laser and mirror as in the ABL?
22 posted on 03/11/2012 11:11:38 PM PDT by U-238
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You do not necessarily mount this laser on a truck. You have it attached to an airplane.


23 posted on 03/11/2012 11:19:59 PM PDT by U-238
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To: U-238

The big words proposed, that means give someone a few billion and they might be able to build one. I doubt it!


24 posted on 03/11/2012 11:23:45 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: org.whodat

Develop it through a black project through a black project. Maybe develop the project through DARPA’s many sub-contractors.


25 posted on 03/11/2012 11:27:28 PM PDT by U-238
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To: U-238
Develop it through a black project through a black project. Maybe develop the project through DARPA’s many sub-contractors
26 posted on 03/11/2012 11:28:28 PM PDT by U-238
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To: org.whodat

Develop it through a black project with a black budget. Maybe develop the project through DARPA’s many sub-contractors


27 posted on 03/11/2012 11:29:10 PM PDT by U-238
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To: U-238
hellyeah!!!! "Drone-Slaying War Laser"...THE DRONE SLAYER! SHOW THEM THE WAR LASER

It's the 21st Century, now begins the epoch of PULP SCI-FI MILITARY REALITY TV!...

29 posted on 03/11/2012 11:53:21 PM PDT by no-s (when democracy turns to tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote)
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To: U-238

ALTB?


30 posted on 03/12/2012 12:00:26 AM PDT by mylife
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To: mylife

Why not put the laser on the “Global Hawk”? This would be a perfect weapon for the Global Hawk. Have Drones hunting other Drones.


31 posted on 03/12/2012 12:06:12 AM PDT by U-238
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To: mylife

Why not put the laser on the “Global Hawk”? This would be a perfect weapon for the Global Hawk. Have Drones hunting other Drones.


32 posted on 03/12/2012 12:06:20 AM PDT by U-238
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To: U-238

Sounds good on paper.


33 posted on 03/12/2012 12:16:05 AM PDT by mylife
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To: mylife
It does not necessarily have to hunt other UAVs. It has enough power to destroy trucks and other ground targets.
34 posted on 03/12/2012 12:20:09 AM PDT by U-238
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To: Jonty30

Amazing stuff from GRASP Labs. Confined to the lab for now because of the need for calibrated position sensors, give ‘em a few years & they’ll be flying in the real world...

Aggressive Maneuvers for Autonomous Quadrotor Flight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvRTALJp8DM&feature=related

Aggressive Quadrotor Part II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geqip_0Vjec&feature=related

Aggressive Quadrotors Part III

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-dkonAXOlQ&feature=related


35 posted on 03/12/2012 12:55:50 AM PDT by ADemocratNoMore (Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)
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To: ADemocratNoMore

It will be interesting as to how maneuverable they will be when they are sized up to fighter jet size.


36 posted on 03/12/2012 1:05:45 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: U-238

I. Want. One.


37 posted on 03/12/2012 1:11:06 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
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To: Jonty30

Computers don’t pass out from pulling too many g’s.


38 posted on 03/12/2012 3:42:56 AM PDT by Dusty Road
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To: Dusty Road

That too.


39 posted on 03/12/2012 3:58:30 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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