US Navy Laser Weapon
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US Navy Laser Weapon
Have I missed something, or is this new?
Video: US Navy tests $40 million laser weapon in Persian Gulf - Telegraph
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Video: US Navy tests $40 million laser weapon in Persian Gulf - Telegraph
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I will suggest to you that this item was tested quite a bit before it ever got over to the PG.
Suggest that this open "test" is a message being sent to some people in the region.
It may also be a marketing ploy to get certain allies to buy these things?
Not sure.
Suggest that this open "test" is a message being sent to some people in the region.
It may also be a marketing ploy to get certain allies to buy these things?
Not sure.
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Thanks LW50
I know the concept has been around for some time - this sort of thing was being mooted at an RAF Weapons Employment Course that I attended in the mid-1980s (but not as a viable airborne weapon system because of the weight of electrical generating kit required to power the beast).
Agreeing your comments fully - I meant was the video new; from the delivery platform, it looks fairly recent.
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I know the concept has been around for some time - this sort of thing was being mooted at an RAF Weapons Employment Course that I attended in the mid-1980s (but not as a viable airborne weapon system because of the weight of electrical generating kit required to power the beast).
Agreeing your comments fully - I meant was the video new; from the delivery platform, it looks fairly recent.
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When I read the article and it said, "The video, released by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), shows the LaWS system detonating a rocket propelled grenade" I was imagining it destroying it in flight and was standing-by to be very impressed.
Instead it destroyed one being towed at 5-10kts.
Even the UAV kill was mostly head sector with very little spin rate.
Further lazy journalism - "burning out the engine" and "burns out the hull". Neither of these things happen.
Nice toy though...
Instead it destroyed one being towed at 5-10kts.
Even the UAV kill was mostly head sector with very little spin rate.
Further lazy journalism - "burning out the engine" and "burns out the hull". Neither of these things happen.
Nice toy though...
