Holy Shit: U.S. Navy Has Weaponized Lasers
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Holy Shit: U.S. Navy Has Weaponized Lasers
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/02/18/us-navy-adds-futuristic-laser-beam-to-its-arsenalLaser beam weaponry was once confined to the fantasies of sci-fi villains. But this summer, the U.S. Navy will turn fiction into reality when it deploys its first laser weapon aboard one of its ships.
The new weapon, dubbed the solid-state Laser Weapons System, promises to be able to incinerate aerial drones and speedboats quickly and on the cheap. That presents a big improvement over today’s weaponry, which typically relies on a finite supply of interceptor missiles that cost roughly $1.4 million a shot. The laser, on the other hand, can be fired continuously and costs just a few bucks per shot. A prototype will be deployed this summer on board the USS Ponce in the Persian Gulf.
“It fundamentally changes the way we fight,” Capt. Mike Ziv of the Naval Sea Systems Command told the Associated Press.
The Navy’s newest weapon doesn’t have the orange glow of a laser-torpedo in Battlestar Galactica — it’s actually invisible to the human eye. The laser’s targeting system identifies and locks onto hostile invaders, and the laser directs a beam of energy that can burn through a boat or plane and fry sensitive electronics. It takes just 30 kilowatts of electricity to power the shot, and a single sailor can operate the weapon.
You can check out this demonstration; however, it is not spectacular -- no red or green laser bolts that make pew-pew noises:
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It's amazing how many weapons men can think up and how little they can manage to make life better for most.
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Thats cool. Weapon defeating weapons are cool.
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