U.S. Navy Successfully Uses Laser to Shoot Down Drones

[going_home]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20011041-501465.html


http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim//2010/07/20/uav.jpg


Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTpP412fM8U&feature=player_embedded


;)

[beam]

pew pew pew-pew

[teufelhunden]

can they attach it to sharks?

[cockerpunk]

moon base?

[zondo]

pew pew pew-pew


:rofl:

[Army]

Retrofit the Battleships using giant 16" wide beam versions.
http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/images/smilies/79.gif

[Fred]

After touring the USS New Jersey last year...

that'd be a shame!

Its got plenty of room for the pew pew, but don't get rid of the 16s!!!

[Army]

http://www.starblazers.com/images/gallery_images/maingallery21.JPG

[Fred]

... that looks awfully familiar from my childhood...

[going_home]

http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/babies-with-laser-eyes-20100219-103657.jpg



















http://roflrazzi.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/celebrity-pictures-patrick-stewart-laser-pointers.jpg





:rolleyes:

[questionful]

great, humans have invented yet another excellent way to destroy things.

it sure would be a fun toy, but i have a feeling it wasn't invented for that purpose.

[Newt]

Looks like it's still an oddity for the techs to poke around with. It took over eighteen seconds to cause catastrophic damage to a drone moving relatively slowly in a straight line. That's not going to work on a missile a quarter the size going ten times that speed or an aircraft trying not to be hit. The next steps for it to be a toy that could replace or seriously augment existing anti-missile/air systems are going to have to make it accurate enough to target vital points intelligently and make it powerful enough to destroy them in a combat relevant time frame.

[Spider-TW]

Probably an intermediate funding show. "For more powerful laser-fu, deposit funds now."

[Ratt]

Probably an intermediate funding show. "For more powerful laser-fu, deposit funds now."

-Sounds about right.

[dboggs79]

If that's impressive, what kinda toys do you think they have that they won't show you. This isn't the first time they've done this. Ronald Regan called it "Star Wars"!

[JoshK]

Raytheon definitely has a long ways to go for this system, but it is more than a proof of concept; with very little (comparatively) tweaking this laser could be battle ready. It also shows that several mile stones (including the targeting, being on a moving boat, etc.) have been overcome.

It's cool that at least one service thought the technology was worth pursuing. (see: YAL-1)

[OPBN]

Considering I read recently that the Chinese are getting ready to test a missle with a 900 mile range capable of pinpointing and taking out aircraft carriers, we better come up with something quick.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100805/ap_on_re_as/as_china_us_carrier_killer

[Spider-TW]

Considering I read recently that the Chinese are getting ready to test a missle with a 900 mile range capable of pinpointing and taking out aircraft carriers, we better come up with something quick.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100805/ap_on_re_as/as_china_us_carrier_killer

Connecting the laser fuel up to a nuclear reactor should be good. Just wave it in the general direction. :)

[JoshK]

Considering I read recently that the Chinese are getting ready to test a missle with a 900 mile range capable of pinpointing and taking out aircraft carriers, we better come up with something quick.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100805/ap_on_re_as/as_china_us_carrier_killer

They might prove me wrong, but what they aim for it to do and what it can actually do are most likely two completely different things.

[Warwitch]

http://www.starblazers.com/images/gallery_images/maingallery21.JPG


Dude. :headbang:

[hill160881]

How long do you think it was that we had stealth tech. before the public knew? twenty maybe thirty years. so i would bet that the phaser(lol) being demonstrated is almost a decade old or built on decades old research. So one would ask the question what do they have now. Ya, its probably capable of shooting down just about anything they want, and quickly at this point. Limited only by the amount of juice they could dump into it. :eek: Just a theory though.