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04-09-2008, 07:12 PM
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US army has laser guns in its sights
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LASER weapons mounted on trucks could be ready to roll into battle within five years. This week Boeing won a $36 million contract from the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command to build the optics needed to track and focus lethal laser energy onto rockets, artillery shells and mortar rounds. The High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator will use a new solid-state laser powered by electricity from a truck-mounted diesel generator, rather than bulky and dangerous chemicals.
Later this year, military engineers will stage a shoot-out between two rival designs for the 100-kilowatt solid-state laser. The winning laser will have to be ruggedised to survive field conditions and made small enough to fit inside the truck. The laser is scheduled to start shooting at real targets in 2013.
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04-09-2008, 07:34 PM
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Bond, Desi Bond!
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Re: US army has laser guns in its sights
Money hain to Laser hain 
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04-09-2008, 10:55 PM
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Re: US army has laser guns in its sights
Conventional laser cutters have had the problem of being limited to targets at a particular distance only, due to focus problems. I wonder how these guys plan to get around that issue and create a multi-range laser gun.
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04-09-2008, 11:29 PM
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Bond, Desi Bond!
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Re: US army has laser guns in its sights
^^ Simple. Go near to the enemy and hen blast the laser
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05-09-2008, 04:09 PM
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Re: US army has laser guns in its sights
lolz giga...u coped the ad also
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05-09-2008, 04:13 PM
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Re: US army has laser guns in its sights
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The laser is scheduled to start shooting at real targets in 2013.
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So who is it going to be? Russia? 
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05-09-2008, 04:16 PM
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Re: US army has laser guns in its sights
these ppl can have anything ......... invisible soldiers might b next on their list .....
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05-09-2008, 04:40 PM
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Re: US army has laser guns in its sights
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Originally Posted by Abhishek Dwivedi
lolz giga...u coped the ad also
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eeks... curse adblock.
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05-09-2008, 05:55 PM
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Re: US army has laser guns in its sights
Not Russia, its may be Afgan or iran or ......
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05-09-2008, 07:13 PM
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Re: US army has laser guns in its sights
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Originally Posted by Abhishek Dwivedi
lolz giga...u coped the ad also
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lolz
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09-09-2008, 05:01 AM
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Re: US army has laser guns in its sights
how exactly does a laser work? is it like regular light focused onto a single point with a couple of lenses, only amp'd a bit?
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09-09-2008, 07:06 AM
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The Smaller Bang
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Re: US army has laser guns in its sights
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how exactly does a laser work? is it like regular light focused onto a single point with a couple of lenses, only amp'd a bit?
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Laser is just a HIGLLY concentrated and focused beam of photons - i.e, light.
The INTENSE energy it has can cut metal.
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