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Old 9th Oct 2015, 21:46
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LO making claims of l@ser weapons not fitting into the future battle space,

Reading isn't your long suit either, is it?

By the way, there's a really good reason why the F-35B-based l@ser platform isn't a particularly good idea: onboard energy is not the limiting factor. It's energy storage, conversion, space, weight and cooling that matter.

You don't need 20MW to run a l@ser that will remotely fit in the aircraft. If you had wall-plug efficiency of 25 per cent you could (in theory) continuously run a 5MW l@ser (that's >4x the size of the one in the YAL-1). You might fit that on a large ship.

A perfectly standard turbine-engine generator will feed the energy-storage system of a few-hundred-KW pulsed l@ser quite adequately. GenAtom is working on a 150 kW unit that can be energized by a generator on a PW545.
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