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Originally posted by Vulcha
reply to post by SplitInfinity
If you read my post, you'll have seen that I asked this question: What if another country manufactured the same material that is used in the satellites to reflect the beam? Not standard reflectors. The same reflectors as used in the satallites that reflect the beam. If another country managed to create said material, and used it to armor missiles, aircraft, ships, etc, surely that would make the FEL redundant?
Originally posted by SplitInfinity
Now with the FEL LASER...you have a Beam of Photons carrying with it Super Excited Electrons in a Free Radical State. Since the FEL BEAM is comprised completely of QUANTUM PARTICLES...weird things start to happen at such a beams contact at Solar Core Temps. and bombardment of Uranium or Plutonium with all these Photons and Electrons.
The Changes that occur in Uranium and Plutonium do not necessarily change the element but rather DEPLETE THE ELEMENT and as a byproduct...hydrogen and helium atoms seem to be created. This can only seem to be a process of Neutron Decay and some Quantum Creation of a Proton since both Protons and Neutrons are comprised completely of QUANTUM PARTICLES such as various forms of Quarks, Gluons, Leptons, Mesons, Bosons...etc.
The Beam only obtains Solar Core Temps. if using a very Powerful supposedly secret Micro-Fusion Generator. The current Ford Class Carriers...the USS. Gerald R. Ford...CVN-78 and the USS. J.F.K....CVN-79...are supposedly set to use two new A1B Nuclear Fission Reactors. Questions have come up and there is a possibility that either two Newer more powerful Reactors will take their place or there will be the use of 2 A1B reactors plus a third Micro-Fusion Generator which has been rumored to have an output equal to 7 A1B Reactors. In this case...the FEL will obtain BEYOND Solar Core Temps. and at these temps...actual changing of Uranium and Plutonium into smaller base Atoms is possible...either that or it will create a massive Fusion Detonation that will take half of Earths Atmosphere with it! LOL! What a Life!
As for the Reflection Satellites...it does not use Optics in the conventional sense. It is more like Multiple and Movable Prism like Insect Compound Eyes...very advanced...very difficult to make and at a level of tech multiple decades in advance of any other Country. Split Infinity
Originally posted by SplitInfinity
reply to post by techwolf
The upgraded SM-3 use a New form of extremely Powerful Long Burn Solid Rocket Fuel which has increases the Original SM-3's range, speed and with a Network of Super Computers for Target and Acquisition...we have one hell of an ABM.
There is a video of a New SM-3 destroying a U.S. Satellite with a Full Tank of Toxic Hydrazine Booster Fuel on the web.
As for the Reflection Satellites...it does not use Optics in the conventional sense. It is more like Multiple and Movable Prism like Insect Compound Eyes...very advanced...very difficult to make and at a level of tech multiple decades in advance of any other Country. Split Infinity
Any spec of dust, salt, oil, blemish, etc on a mirror (IE any time a mirror is outside of a sterile lab room) Would be a hole through which the laser could burn through the mirror. The amount of power used is such that this would be near instantaneous. So reflective missiles, aside from being more expensive, more maintenance intensive, and absolutely easier to track, would only achieve very very minor gains in resistance to the envisioned laser from a reflective coating.
Originally posted by SplitInfinity
reply to post by SoulVisions
The FEL as it is intended to be used would be very hard to be reflected by any Nano-Coating as the Alignment of the Prism Like Multi-Compound FEL Reflectors must be aligned by a group of NETWORKED SUPER COMPUTERS. If it is off by even the smallest degree...the FEL Beam would Vaporize the Prisms.
Originally posted by SplitInfinity
reply to post by techwolf
When I saw a Non-Nuclear FEL on the NEWS targeting a small rocking boat at sea a while back...I ALMOST FELL OUT OF MY CHAIR! I NEVER thought that they would even suggest that we had this Tech. Then I found out the reason why. China was VERY CLOSE to launching an ALL OUT INVASION OF TAIWAN! The Chinese Communist Regime had thought...wrongly...that a combination of the U.S. Military being involved in TWO WARS...a stagnant U.S. Economy...Chinese Loans in the Multiple Billions given to the U.S....as well as a General LACK OF UNDERSTANDING by the Communist Chinese Government of true U.S. Military Capability...had brought the Chinese Communist Regime to the conclusion that the time was ripe to take Taiwan.
The U.S. Military War Planners then did something BRILLIANT! They invited a Large Contingent of High Ranking Chinese Military Leadership to attend U.S. War Games that were taking place out of Norfolk. The Chinese were then taken to MANY bases across the U.S. and then at a specific time...WERE TOLD AND ALLOWED TO WITNESS A DEMONSTRATION OF BOTH THE FEL AND MEB DIRECT ENERGY WEAPONS that the U.S. had major breakthroughs in over a short time. The Chinese Military Leadership was placed in a STATE OF SHOCK!
Originally posted by SplitInfinity
reply to post by SoulVisions
I am not trying to deal in ABSOLUTES but it would be very hard to counter this form of Laser as just as you replied...Above Solar Core Temps. would vaporize just about anything and the ability to be able to anticipate or detect an FEL Beam Strike would be almost Impossible. Since the incoming Laser Beam is moving at 186,300 Miles Per Second...that does not give even the Fastest of Computers or the impossibility to Mechanically Align any possible Reflective Defense in the angle necessary to reflect the beam.
As far as other ways to render the Laser inert...sure...anythings possible but in this case...VERY IMPROBABLE.
You do at least have valid points and for that I am glad. Split Infinity
Originally posted by SplitInfinity
reply to post by techwolf
TW...google...Free Electron Laser use on CVN-78 Gerald R. Ford...as well as CVN-79 John F. Kennedy. Also google Ford Class Nuclear Reactors A1B.
This is all VERY REAL. CVN-78 will be at sea in 2015...CVN-79 will be in 2020. ALL Nimitz Class as well as all Aegis Cruisers will have Nuclear Powered FEL's installed.
The only issue is what Reactors they will use. It will either be two A1B's...or two Newer Reactors designs that are more powerful or TWO A1B's with a single Micro-Fusion Reactor that is supposedly 7 times more powerful than a single A1B....as well as being MUCH SMALLER.
The Last Possibility would make many people VERY PISSED OFF...as the fact that we are in an Energy Crunch and our Military has Micro-Fusion Tech. that WORKS! LOVE to see that! LOL! Split Infinity
In each laser firing at Boeing's facility in West Hills, Calif., the high-energy laser achieved power levels of over 25 kilowatts for multi-second durations, with a measured beam quality suitable for a tactical weapon system. The Boeing laser integrates multiple thin-disk lasers into a single system. Through these successful tests, the Boeing team has proven the concept of scalability to a 100-kilowatt-class system based on the same architecture and technology.