Army's New Laser Weapon Can Shoot Down Mortars and Drones

Yahoo/ABCNews ^ | 21 Dec 2013 | Luis Martinez

[shove_it]

Nice foto of a truck without a laser on it.

[Farmer Dean]

Should be an effective riot control tool.Be good on the southern border when equipped with motion and heat sensors.

[FatherofFive]

So far the Army's laser testing program has cost about $13 million a year since it began in 2011.

This seems incredibly inexpensive. Less than an 0bama vacation.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Looks to me like the photographer cut off most of the laser on top.

[Vaquero]

lets hold up till the POSOTUS is out of office before we give him any new weapons....

[Jack Hydrazine]

As long as they can miniaturize it down to the point they can put those sharks everything is good!

[txrefugee]

Remember when the Serbs succeeded in shooting down our stealth bomber with a microwave oven during Clinton’s Wag the Dog War on Christians?

Wonder if that would work on drones.....

[Straight Vermonter]

So far the Army's laser testing program has cost about $13 million a year since it began in 2011.

Am I the only one who thinks that is ridiculously cheap?

[Straight Vermonter]

Remember when the Serbs succeeded in shooting down our stealth bomber with a microwave oven...?

Not exactly.

[shove_it]

As long as they can miniaturize it ...

The humpable "return to sender" version sounds good.

[Azeem]

That ‘Stealth Bomber’ (the F-117) was almost 20 years old when that happened. Notice how the Chinese and Russians still haven’t been able to replicate our technology, even a decade later? Now with drones, stealth tech may not even matter.

And what happens when these lasers are turned on protesting crowds of hungry people because of hyperinflation?

[G Larry]

When is a truck that size ever around mortar fire?

If you can get that in close enough to be useful, you can get artillery in to blast the mortar source.

Israel is one of the few practical applications.

[SZonian]

There is a lot more to that story than just using “creative” means.

The one thing I’ll say is this; the F117’s mission planning was controlled and authorized by....NATO.

[VanShuyten]

Does it work against hypersonic anti-carrier missiles?

[dfwgator]

Can they put it on frikkin' sharks' heads?

[bigbob]

Put enough energy on anything and it’ll blow

[Hulka]

Sarcasm. . .right? One never knows these days. . .

[puppypusher]

“Does it work against hypersonic anti-carrier missiles?”

Compared to the speed of light,those missiles may as well be standing in one place.

[DIRTYSECRET]

GIVES US THE advantage in Korea-a good place to (re)start a war and END it.

[NorthMountain]

>> Am I the only one who thinks that is ridiculously cheap?

No ... two years, less than $40 million, and they have functioning hardware. That's what a taxpayer wants.