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02-22-2011, 02:06 PM
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02-22-2011, 02:34 PM
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02-25-2011, 05:16 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Norfolk, Virginia | | Between this, the rail gun, and the magnetic catapults, the Navy is turning into the Air Force of the sea!
And check this out - this aircraft is the next step in high-tech air superiority, and already in final stages of development for use by the Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIsIzjVi7j4
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02-25-2011, 07:28 AM
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That new jet is pretty cool, the VTOL in my heart will always be the Harrier tho 
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02-25-2011, 07:43 AM
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Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk  Doubt we'll ever see laser weapons used in warfare. | Oh, it's gonna happen, dude. The Air Force already has a weaponized a 747 for use as a laser weapons platform, up to and including a high-power firing test last year - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1.
The fact that they haven't requested further funding for it doesn't keep me from believing that they've stopped pursuing it. It just makes me believe that they're moving any more progress under wraps for security reasons.
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02-28-2011, 10:43 PM
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03-01-2011, 05:03 AM
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Originally Posted by neurotictim Oh, it's gonna happen, dude. The Air Force already has a weaponized a 747 for use as a laser weapons platform, up to and including a high-power firing test last year - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1.
The fact that they haven't requested further funding for it doesn't keep me from believing that they've stopped pursuing it. It just makes me believe that they're moving any more progress under wraps for security reasons.
Just my $0.02. | By the time a laser becomes powerful enough to actually kill or cut things, you can easily blind someone. Even be it from scattered light. When the power is that high, you'd struggle to have anything that was "eye-safe", even from the afore mentioned scattered light.
Protocol IV of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, is specifically about lasers. While that does include in article 3:
"Blinding as an incidental or collateral effect of the legitimate military employment of laser systems, including laser systems used against optical equipment, is not covered by the prohibition of this Protocol."
It was added to the convention in the mid 90s. The laser powers we have now, weren't even a pipe dream at that point! I can just see changes being made should a weaponised laser ever come into regular combat.
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03-01-2011, 06:21 AM
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03-01-2011, 08:45 AM
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03-01-2011, 01:10 PM
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03-01-2011, 01:48 PM
| | | | Now if we can just find a way to mount them on the heads of sharks.... |
03-01-2011, 01:49 PM
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Originally Posted by erbine Now if we can just find a way to mount them on the heads of sharks.... | You mean the friggin' laser beams???
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03-01-2011, 02:08 PM
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03-01-2011, 02:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Eric Perry You mean the friggin' laser beams??? | He probably meant the laser cannons. The beams themselves would be quite challenging to mount on the head of a shark for more than a millisecond. |
03-01-2011, 02:35 PM
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03-01-2011, 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by bongomania He probably meant the laser cannons. The beams themselves would be quite challenging to mount on the head of a shark for more than a millisecond. | Yup. |
03-01-2011, 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by MatticusMania And the result is flied shark. Not quite so intimidating. | Are these Japanese sharks?
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03-01-2011, 03:12 PM
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03-01-2011, 03:13 PM
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03-02-2011, 11:51 AM
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Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk Doubt we'll ever see laser weapons used in warfare.
That new jet is pretty cool, the VTOL in my heart will always be the Harrier tho | I think you're wrong. It won't be used on cities, but would be very good for anti aircraft and anti boat combat.
Also, I keep reading it as Free Election Laser.
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