Boeing Successfully Tested Laser Cannon

[apache_lives]

weapons of mass destraction?

 

[Shadow703793]

[citation][nom]Cryogenic[/nom]Next we need energy shields, you know to counter those lasers, let's see which will be the first company to successfully test those.[/citation]
Like in Halo!

 

[xenorm]

I'll take two.

 

[superblahman123]

I suppose the next innovation to these "high energy" chemical lasers is to go green with them?

 

[matt87_50]

"The beam control system acquired the ground target -- an unoccupied stationary vehicle"

well thats not really a thorough test, in the real world the vehicles are going to be occupied.

for all they know they could shoot it at a tank, vaporising it but turning its crew in to 50 foot tall super humans... then who's face would be red?

 

[kikireeki]

That could work on a snowman not on a concrete structure!

 

[Ciuy]

a picture of the actual car would help

 

[cabose369]

I would like to see the video of this test. That would probably look soooo cool!!

 

[techguy911]

Shields to stop lasers are already in development they use plasma
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/cold_plasma_000724.html]

 

[Guest]

America...FUCK YEAH!

 

[darkguset]

[citation][nom]grieve[/nom]Once you shoot a laser... It's gone.. there is no guiding a beam of light.[/citation]

You are wrong. It is something that is called a "mirror"

 

[skit75]

[citation][nom]grieve[/nom]Question... How do you "guide" a laser? Don't you aim it... I'm under the impression a laser would be awfully quick, perhaps the speed of... i dunno, light?""The beam control system acquired the ground target -- an unoccupied stationary vehicle -- and guided the laser beam to the target, as directed by ATL's battle management system.""[/citation]

The actual chemical laser could be guided or walked on to target using another targeting laser (IR). I would think a continuous beam would requires tons of power but I'm no scientist.

 

[darkguset]

That would also be a great solution for electric cars! If you fire one of those beams on the cells of an electric car (usually on top of roof) they will recharge in a flash! Hence if a terrorist drives an electric car and they try to kill him, they will only give him a boost in his car so he can get away more easily! lol! Bring back the rockets i say!

 

[Guest]

Isn't that a tractor beam coming from the imperial cruiser? Morans.

 

[skit75]

Sorry for 2 posts in a row but, I just gotta say it.....

Screen-shot or it didn't happen!

 

[koga73]

what would happen if the enemy had "mirror shields"?

 

[jj463rd]

LASER's are a lot of fun.One thing simple and fun is to mound a simple 5 to 20 milliwatt 635nm diode LASER pointer on a large hobby astronomical telescope of an aperture of 15 to 18 inches using that telescope as a collimator (expanding the beam diameter but making the beam vastly more parallel at a distance(divergence reduction)).You don't want too powerful of a LASER with too high of a photon density to avoid detection.Also avoid using it in foggy conditions where the beam can be seen from other angles.Then use another large hobby astronomical telescope of an aperture of 15 to 18 inches using it for target sighting at extreme distances.Mound both telescopes coaxially on a stable mound (heavy tripod etc.).Get a police scanner and set up both on a mountain or hill with a view of targets from 15 to 60 miles away in the dark.It's like blitzkrieging France in May 1940.Have fun just kidding folks don't do this.

 

[Stryter]

[citation][nom]Honis[/nom]Next weapons platform? FREAKING SHARKS![/citation]

Yea, but something will go wrong with the budget and we'll have to settle for ill-tempered sea bass instead.

 

[tmike]

"Once you shoot a laser... It's gone.. there is no guiding a beam of light."

That is a non sequitur. Further, while I certainly wouldn't hold my breath waiting for dynamic guidance of a light beam while the beam is "in transit", its path is affected by gravity and is therefore technically "steerable".

It would have been more precise to have said that the apparatus was guided instead of the laser beam itself, but the semantics are identical in practice.

 

[djcoolmasterx]

[citation][nom]tmike[/nom]" its path is affected by gravity and is therefore technically "steerable".[/citation]

Wow, they have magically invented photons with mass. LRN2PHYSICS