U.S. Navy Develops Laser Weapon!

[Legodude77]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/08/17658147-navy-unveils-powerful-ship-mounted-laser-weapon?lite
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/us-navy-laser-test-takes-drone-18907970


Capable of taking down planes and drones from the sky and boats with pinpoint accuracy.
Cost only $1 worth of electricity to take out a small drone.
Go read the news articles about it, then discuss here.

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[Spartan923]

woo
technology!

[otto-san]

For some reason I remember seeing about this a long time ago?

Was probably a concept or something and not an actual working thing.

Neat!

[Night Fox]

Capable of taking down boats from the sky with pinpoint accuracy.

to be honest, I'm more interested in the flying boats

[Bisjac]

old tech is best. we still got artillery on our battleships that can arch over the horizon and shoot ships we cant technically see.
cant do that with straight line lasers :p

[Legodude77]

to be honest, I'm more interested in the flying boats

Fixed

[Night Fox]

old tech is best. we still got artillery on our battleships that can arch over the horizon and shoot ships we cant technically see.
cant do that with straight line lasers :p

yeah but with lasers you don't have to worry about leading your target

[Wynd_Fox]

For some reason I remember seeing about this a long time ago?

Was probably a concept or something and not an actual working thing.

Neat!

Same, but I thought it destroyed missiles.

[Night Fox]

Same, but I thought it destroyed missiles.

I think I remember the same thing, but this is something else probably, although I'd bet it would work against missiles too

[Doomonkey]

Reminds me of Blockland laser weapon.

[Nonnel]

Cool. :o

[Wynd_Fox]

I think I remember the same thing, but this is something else probably, although I'd bet it would work against missiles too

Maybe it takes too long to focus enough to do damage to a missile? I don't really know how laser weaponry works, so that might not make any sense at all.

[Night Fox]

Maybe it takes too long to focus enough to do damage to a missile? I don't really know how laser weaponry works, so that might not make any sense at all.

planes and drones are probably harder to damage than missiles, but missiles are significantly smaller targets

[Zloff]

'Murica

[Night Fox]

'Murica

yeah, that's what "U.S." generally means