Posted on 09/23/2015 12:17:28 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
And it can probably recharge with a generator attached to its turbine engine. Anything powered by a jet engine potentially has a lot of electricity available.
“We ARE putting them on our ships.”
One laser, on one ship, if I’m not mistaken.
That’s a test case, buddy.
Well duh. Not going to do anything wide scale until it is proved out. Projects take a long time. If something is deployed as a proof of concept then you can bet there are smaller better versions on the drawing boards or going into prototypes. That is how the development cycle works. There is always a gap between what some company is starting to mess with and what is in production and what is in regular service. Each of those intervals is months or years depending on the complexity of the system. So no, if a company is starting to play with them on drones it does not follow that it should already be installed everywhere else.
This has nothing to do with lasers, but I couldn't resist. For my last birthday my son gave me something called a "bug-a-salt-weapon." It's a spring-operated gun that fires a pinch of table salt. Nailing a fly while it's in the air is pretty tough, but when one lands on a surface, the gun is deadly. One shot will not only shred the insect's wings but kill it. I've even killed wasps with it, once they settled on something long enough for me to make the shot.
“So no, if a company is starting to play with them on drones it does not follow that it should already be installed everywhere else.”
That wasn’t my point. My point was that this tech is much more suited, by its nature, to deployment on ships and other platforms than it is on drones. Since we aren’t even “there” yet on those platforms, putting them on drones isn’t a serious development, it’s just a ploy for publicity.
Got to find me one of those...
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