Boeing Successfully Tested Laser Cannon

[ravewulf]

Saw it on the History Channel ages ago *yawn*

 

[EXT64]

Nice title. Too bad as usual the article tells you little.

 

[bin1127]

Now to etch my face on the moon.

 

[zipz0p]

[citation][nom]djcoolmasterx[/nom]Wow, they have magically invented photons with mass. LRN2PHYSICS[/citation]


Please, follow your own suggestion - try General Relativity this time, though. Gravity bends spacetime, and as such, can warp the trajectory of photons. As a simple example, look up gravitational lensing.

Of course, gravity is not the only way to augment light - it is also wavelike, and other optics works pretty well - just not on such high-powered lasers... the energy density tends to melt common optics. (Put your magnifying lenses away.)

On a related note, lasers are awesome. Pew pew.

 

[megamanx00]

Actually I'm kinda surprised it took so long. Stuff like this has been the wet dream of the military for years.

 

[eddieroolz]

Wasn't something like this illegal? I remember Russia and China bitching profusely last time US tested something with laser.

 

[krunk666]

[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]

They already have those, they're called, high intensity Plasma Bubble.

 

[croc]

Boeing needs to mount its laser system on a Lockheed airframe... How ironic.

 

[coonday]

This isn't the first time they tested this laser. They did so last year and put a five foot hole in a tank from 25,000 feet. And this is just the air to ground laser. They have an air to air one also that can shoot down incoming missiles.

 

[backbydemand]

Even todays smartbombs cause less collateral damage than what we used to do in WW2, does anyone remember the Germans blitzing Coventry or the English firebombed Dresden, that was Biblical style wrath-of-god type stuff. If you did that to someone they damn well knew not to do it again.

So a laser weapon that cost billions takes out a jeep and put a big hole in it? Who is going to notice? People take notice and don't do it again when you carpet bomb the mutha's!!!

 

[croc]

[citation][nom]backbydemand[/nom]Even todays smartbombs cause less collateral damage than what we used to do in WW2, does anyone remember the Germans blitzing Coventry or the English firebombed Dresden, that was Biblical style wrath-of-god type stuff. If you did that to someone they damn well knew not to do it again.So a laser weapon that cost billions takes out a jeep and put a big hole in it? Who is going to notice? People take notice and don't do it again when you carpet bomb the mutha's!!![/citation]

Worked well in 'Nam, right?
Worked well in Iraq, right?
Worked well in Afghanistan, right?

Stupid yank-wanker.... Go fight in a 'situation', then come back and tell us all about it.

 

[yrmoma]

[citation][nom]c0llateral_damag3[/nom]"Collateral Damage"That means killing innocent civilians, for those that haven't served in the military. However, since 2001, most of our "collateral damage" was intentional, and/or we should've never been shooting at it in the first place. We could also GTFO of Afghanistan and Iraq right now, for an incredible 100% reduction in collateral damage. US defense contractors caring about collateral damage, laugable at best... Blackwater's bonus structure is probably based on collateral damage.[/citation]

Go eat the barrel of a gun. Seriously. Have you been there? Have you killed people intentionally? Shut the fuck up.

 

[core i7 ownage]

EXTERMINATE!

 

[core i7 ownage]

EXTERMINATE!

 

[martel80]

I don't think that was any continuous beam but rather a short pulse (it would be very difficult to keep the laser aimed at the car while flying around).
I guess they made just a minor hole in the car's engine since that is enough to "defeat" the car.

 

[apache_lives]

THATS NO MOON

 

[anamaniac]

I want to write my name and draw dicks into corn crops with this...

 

[azzinoth]

lazz00rs xD

 

[caparc]

Did the laser weapon defeat a T34 tank or a Toyota pickup truck?

I've got a better idea, a depleted uranium golf ball gattling gun. I call it the mulligun.

 

[nelson_nel]

[citation][nom]jhansonxi[/nom]Looks nice but you need to consider all the other details like power source, weight, heat dissipation, and rate of fire. It's a government-funded project so cost doesn't really matter (the money comes from taxpayers and nobody cares what they think).[/citation]

Um, you don't think Beoeing already knows this...?