Giant Laser blasts 300mph aircraft
In case you thought that the pain gun was the only real-life science fiction weapon that Raytheon was up to, then you haven’t heard about this real-life laser.
This Laser Close-In Weapon System was recently unveiled in an airshow in England, and it has recently made history as the first time a laser has shot down an aircraft in flight.
This demonstration took place last May, and I don’t know why this is the first time I am hearing so much buzz about it just now. This project was developed by Raytheon and the Navy, and I can only assume that they have de-classified it or something. The laser blast happened 100 miles west of Los Angeles, and the target was an aircraft flying at 300 miles per hour.
The laser was about 50kW, and, unlike what you see in science fiction, the beam was completely invisible. They only know that it hit because the target exploded. The event is being called, and I quote from my source: “the real Star Wars” or “better than Star Wars”.
My source also says that battle-ready lasers probably won’t be ready until 2016. Hopefully, the US won’t use them then, because we will have stopped fighting these wars that we are currently fighting. I can always hope.
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rob Says: July 21, 2010 at 9:40 am
so this is why the outer earth ozone has collapsed an insane amount compared to in the past
SANTOS TOBIAS Says: October 28, 2010 at 12:58 am
LASER SHOULD BE THE THE PRIME WEAPON AND SHOULD REMOVE ALL OLD DEFENSE
Ross Nicholson Says: July 20, 2010 at 9:19 pm
Our government will never stop developing better weapons of war. Americans owe it to the earth to never stop developing better governments of peace. War is a childish and absurd way to settle an argument. Indeed, with adequate intelligence, such arguments should never arise. “Influence” means nothing without artificially created barriers to entry and trade. If governments would free their people to trade freely everywhere, there might be less need of government! However, the conundrum is solved where free people constrain their governments. When some people in a polity can abuse/pollute/poison other people without recourse, then government has legitimate function to restrain such pollution. We must computerize democratic government and make it 100% accountable to the people and sensitive & responsive to the needs of other nations as well.