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Hi all,
I was nearly going to put this in the sci-fi forum as a joke, but then I realised that military lasers would actually be an awesome topic to ask some questions about. (Below).
But first, my Marvel observation.
These baby's LOOK X-Men or Marvel, like something from "Agents of SHIELD". And guess what? The government's trying to disguise the leak of their secret program name by disguising it as something about *lasers*. But we know what they're *really* doing, don't we! "The US air force research laboratory started gathering market information under an advanced technology demonstration program known as SHiELD, or self-protect high-energy laser demonstrator."
Pah! "self-protect high-energy laser demonstrator" = as if! Pull the other one!
But seriously...
I thought lasers were only in the battlefield range, like 1.5km or something, and could fire through a truck engine? I didn't realise we were expecting to head into the megawatt range so soon? Does anyone have anything more concrete on greater distance weapons?
I was nearly going to put this in the sci-fi forum as a joke, but then I realised that military lasers would actually be an awesome topic to ask some questions about. (Below).
But first, my Marvel observation.
These baby's LOOK X-Men or Marvel, like something from "Agents of SHIELD". And guess what? The government's trying to disguise the leak of their secret program name by disguising it as something about *lasers*. But we know what they're *really* doing, don't we! "The US air force research laboratory started gathering market information under an advanced technology demonstration program known as SHiELD, or self-protect high-energy laser demonstrator."
Pah! "self-protect high-energy laser demonstrator" = as if! Pull the other one!
But seriously...
I thought lasers were only in the battlefield range, like 1.5km or something, and could fire through a truck engine? I didn't realise we were expecting to head into the megawatt range so soon? Does anyone have anything more concrete on greater distance weapons?