U.S. Navy Successfully Tests Laser Weapon in the Persian Gulf
Navy shows how its new laser gun works at sea
LAZORZ! AMARR VICTOR!
Now if the Navy can deploy their railgun, we'll be that much closer to Eve Is Real.
Posted 10 December 2014 - 08:28 PM
U.S. Navy Successfully Tests Laser Weapon in the Persian Gulf
Navy shows how its new laser gun works at sea
LAZORZ! AMARR VICTOR!
Now if the Navy can deploy their railgun, we'll be that much closer to Eve Is Real.
Posted 10 December 2014 - 10:24 PM
Kinda cool but lacks pew pew sound and color...
In wildness is the preservation of the world,
so seek the wolf in thyself
Posted 11 December 2014 - 05:58 AM
That is so cool wish i could die and be reincarnated another 200 years from now so i can fly them on ships
Posted 11 December 2014 - 09:22 AM
Kinda cool but lacks pew pew sound and color...
this
Posted 11 December 2014 - 01:33 PM
That's about a week old Karasuma
That day, I woke up in the future. Now, however, you're just living in the past.
Posted 11 December 2014 - 03:52 PM
Meh.
It's not a plasma rifle in a 40 watt range.
Posted 11 December 2014 - 05:01 PM
U.S. Navy Successfully Tests Laser Weapon in the Persian Gulf
Navy shows how its new laser gun works at sea
LAZORZ! AMARR VICTOR!
Now if the Navy can deploy their railgun, we'll be that much closer to Eve Is Real.
Apparently you overlooked the historical documents...
Posted 13 December 2014 - 02:04 PM
I'll take the existing 20mm Phalanx system thanks - it can (unlike the current variant of LaWS) actually hit targets which don't move in straight lines, and much more importantly its actually legal to use against humans LaWS is currently illegal under the terms of the Geneva Convention but then again so is torture....
Posted 13 December 2014 - 04:47 PM
I'll take the existing 20mm Phalanx system thanks - it can (unlike the current variant of LaWS) actually hit targets which don't move in straight lines, and much more importantly its actually legal to use against humans LaWS is currently illegal under the terms of the Geneva Convention but then again so is torture....
But they are not lawful combatants! They can torture them all they want... yeah... logic.
In wildness is the preservation of the world,
so seek the wolf in thyself
Posted 13 December 2014 - 06:04 PM
Well where's the logic in having a 20mm cannon which fires 75 rounds a second being "legal" to target a human whereas a 30kW laser is illegal? I'm 100% sure I'd rather the "illegal" option as the cannon isn't going to leave anything other than raw meat splattered over a few metres.
Morals of any sort do rather seem to be very optional in the 21st century so far
Posted 13 December 2014 - 06:48 PM
I'll take the existing 20mm Phalanx system thanks
I did appreciate having the C-RAM while at FOB Shank and Bagram Airfield. BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Saw it prematurely pop incoming IDF a couple of times.
Posted 14 December 2014 - 06:04 PM
Well where's the logic in having a 20mm cannon which fires 75 rounds a second being "legal" to target a human whereas a 30kW laser is illegal? I'm 100% sure I'd rather the "illegal" option as the cannon isn't going to leave anything other than raw meat splattered over a few metres.
Morals of any sort do rather seem to be very optional in the 21st century so far
Because early laser weapons, while not powerful enough to do any damage, were powerful enough to blind. There were prototype man-portable systems that basically mounted on the top of your M16 and let you blind whole swathes of whichever brown people had offended you this time. This was seen as unsporting and was therefore banned.
Posted 08 January 2015 - 08:39 PM
Think flashbangs that permanently blind people... Such form of fighting is why laser weapons were banned.