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Originally posted by Phage
A laser produces a beam of coherent amplified electromagnetic energy. It will work on any flying object, identified or otherwise.
Originally posted by Eurisko2012
reply to post by Phage
I wonder what the range is??? 100 miles? 2,000 miles?
Is weather a factor?
"High Energy Laser beam racing toward it at 670 million miles per hour, Northrup Grumman corp.", said in a statement.
Originally posted by MysterE
Take that Ahmadinejad! You want to get tough with your enriched uranium... Well were shooting rockets out of the sky with freaking lasers! This is certianly a monumental advancement in missil defence, as well as other applications. Techonlogy is advancing so fast, it is hard to keep up with!
[edit on 12-2-2010 by MysterE]
Originally posted by MysterE
reply to post by SLAYER69
That weapon is intense, If I see that sucker pop up, im out of there (if I can make it)
-E-
Originally posted by MysterE
reply to post by archasama
Iran is dangerous, their dictatorship is opressive to their own people, and constantly threatens a whole race with inialation (much like Hitler). It's like giving a child a big gun and expecting him to use it properly.
-E-
Originally posted by bkaust
Originally posted by MysterE
Would have been much cooler if it were "frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their frickin' heads" ;p
We deny any such weapon, as we also denied the Stealth Bomber for a decade.DoD
In the early 1990s, the US Air Force was preparing tests at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, designed to lead to a ground-based plasma-weapon in the late 1990s capable of firing plasma bullets at incoming ballistic missile warheads. The enabling technology was a 'fast capacitor bank' called Shiva Star that could store 10 million joules of energy and release it instantaneously. Officials anticipated firing bullets at 3,000km/sec in 1995 and 10,000km/sec - 3% of the speed of light - by the turn of the century. The tests absorbed little more than a few million dollars of annual funding (Jane's Defence Weekly 29 July 1998). Dumped into the 'soft' electronics of a re-entry vehicle, the bullets were envisaged as destroying multiple manoeuvring warheads at rapid reacquisition rates. By the second half of the last decade, the Shiva/plasma bullet programme was officially dropped. Observers have remarked on how its sudden disappearance at the time the firing tests were scheduled was redolent of a transition to the classified environment.
The Phantom Works, Boeing's prototyping organisation, has raised the possibility of plasma-based directed-energy weapons equipping a future breed of hypersonic aircraft platforms, such as those favoured for research and development by the Bush administration. George Muellner, vice president and general manager of the Phantom Works, said that it should prove feasible to "skim off" some of the plasma that forms naturally around a M8.0 aerospace vehicle for use by an onboard directed-energy weapon.
Everyone is familiar with the amazing force field and energy weapons from sci-fi movies like Star Wars and Star Trek, but are we just a few years away from having that technology at our fingertips? We'll investigate new, top-secret military weaponry and recent inventions like a new airplane mounted laser cannons from Northrop Grumman that can shoot down enemy planes and shoot nuclear missiles out of the sky.
Originally posted by dubiousone
Originally posted by MysterE
reply to post by archasama
Iran is dangerous, their dictatorship is opressive to their own people, and constantly threatens a whole race with inialation (much like Hitler). It's like giving a child a big gun and expecting him to use it properly.
-E-
What hogwash. Iran has never threatened "a whole race" with annihilation. Try denying ignorance for once.