U.S. Navy is Getting Ready To Use Star Wars Lasers in Battle

[mouse]

We all knew that it was only a matter of time before Star Wars came to earth. Who doesn’t remember the lasers and the lightsabers? And who could forget the Death Star – especially when its green laser blew Princess Leia’s home planet of Alderaan to dust! If you’re anything like me, you wondered if you’d ever see anything like that kind of technology in your own lifetime.

While I was holding my hopes out that someone would figure out a way to create a real working lightsaber, it turns out the the U.S. Navy has been hard at work creating another weapon that looks like it came straight out of a Star Wars movie: the laser cannon

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The Navy decided to research laser weapons systems because they found them to be much cheaper than alternative weapons on their ships and just as (if not more) effective than normal weapons. These lasers will be used to attack drones in the air and other types of boats in the water. They will produce more than enough heat to overheat their targets and render them useless.

The lasers have a targeting mechanism that allows them to lock on to their targets and burn through them with relative ease. As far as manpower goes, each laser system can be operated by one sailor, thereby freeing up sailors for other duties. As to when the Navy plans to begin routinely using these lasers, sources say that it will be around the summer of this year.

Contrary to what you see in Star Wars, you won’t be able to see the laser beam – you’ll only be able to see the damage done. While lasers seem like they’d be effective in just about any situation, the Navy admits that they’re not very reliable in the rain, in the dust, or if there’s a lot of turbulence in the air.

What do you think? Do you think the weapons of today will eventually give way to lasers and such?



SOURCE: http://news.yahoo.com/us-navy-ready-deploy-laser-183035272.html

[Nbadan]

Who exactly do we plan to use these advanced lasers against again?

[TDMVPDPOY]

hey mouse

if you shoot one of these in space, does the laser beam continue to move forward if you turn off the canon/energy source...or it will lose its speed moving forward with nothing pushing it from behind?

[pgardn]

hey mouse (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=220)

if you shoot one of these in space, does the laser beam continue to move forward if you turn off the canon/energy source...or it will lose its speed moving forward with nothing pushing it from behind?

Holy shit...

Pushing it from behind? Are you Fckn kidding? So light gets pushed by other light from behind or it slows down...


Do they pull newborns with nooses to remove them from mom in Australia?
Honest to God...

[TDMVPDPOY]

what im trying to say is, if you hold onto the trigger that laser beam will always be moving forward

if you release the trigger, whatever laser beam has been shot out does it keep on moving forward? or does it fade into the distance getting weaker speed it travels at

[boutons_deux]

what im trying to say is, if you hold onto the trigger that laser beam will always be moving forward

if you release the trigger, whatever laser beam has been shot out does it keep on moving forward? or does it fade into the distance getting weaker speed it travels at

bullets aren't "pushed from behind" beyond the end of the barrel. you must be thinking rockets :)

laserlight travels at the speed of, uh, light.

doesn't have any mass to be pushed.

a laser shot, that which doesn't get absorbed by dust, rain, gas, will go to infinity or until it gets absorbed, just like starlight from Bs of light years away gets absorbed when it hits the earth and its atmosphere.

[pgardn]

We all knew that it was only a matter of time before Star Wars came to earth. Who doesn’t remember the lasers and the lightsabers? And who could forget the Death Star – especially when its green laser blew Princess Leia’s home planet of Alderaan to dust! If you’re anything like me, you wondered if you’d ever see anything like that kind of technology in your own lifetime.

While I was holding my hopes out that someone would figure out a way to create a real working lightsaber, it turns out the the U.S. Navy has been hard at work creating another weapon that looks like it came straight out of a Star Wars movie: the laser cannon

http://technews.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/6a016764d242da970b017eea1d9c9d970d-800wi.jpg

The Navy decided to research laser weapons systems because they found them to be much cheaper than alternative weapons on their ships and just as (if not more) effective than normal weapons. These lasers will be used to attack drones in the air and other types of boats in the water. They will produce more than enough heat to overheat their targets and render them useless.

The lasers have a targeting mechanism that allows them to lock on to their targets and burn through them with relative ease. As far as manpower goes, each laser system can be operated by one sailor, thereby freeing up sailors for other duties. As to when the Navy plans to begin routinely using these lasers, sources say that it will be around the summer of this year.

Contrary to what you see in Star Wars, you won’t be able to see the laser beam – you’ll only be able to see the damage done. While lasers seem like they’d be effective in just about any situation, the Navy admits that they’re not very reliable in the rain, in the dust, or if there’s a lot of turbulence in the air.

What do you think? Do you think the weapons of today will eventually give way to lasers and such?



SOURCE: http://news.yahoo.com/us-navy-ready-deploy-laser-183035272.html

Maybe uses in specific situations.

Lasers are relatively easy to reflect so targets could defend themselves. And as the article states, scattering would be a problem. Big advantage is they are super quick, very little time lag, so erratic fast moving targets are not a problem, almost no time lag.

[TDMVPDPOY]

if they shoot a laser.....and some clown/target is holding up a mirror, would it reflect the laser?....just like upstairs in the nba section with the deflections by fakerfaggots

[boutons_deux]

if they shoot a laser.....and some clown/target is holding up a mirror, would it reflect the laser?....just like upstairs in the nba section with the deflections by fakerfaggots

if it's front-surfaced mirror, a much getter chance of not getting broiled. If it's a back-surface mirror, the loss of some of the huge energy passing in/out of the glass would probably heat the glass enough to destroy the mirror. you have to be kinda fast to hold your mirror up, and what's the cross section of the incoming laser beam?

[pgardn]

Kinda fast...

Hey tdmvp, a laser is being aimed at you, wield the mighty mirror shield.

Too late, we have a cooked Aussie down, repeat, we have a cooked Aussie down.

[Wild Cobra]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q23e02p0vss

[Wild Cobra]

Know of any good laser clips in movies? If I have the Bluray or DVD I can "clip" it. I just uploaded this one to YOUTUBE:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXUZyB-7tE8

[TDMVPDPOY]

wont u need stacks of these like surface to air missiles if ur fighting against quantity?

how fast can this stop something and move onto the next target?

remember china is only concern with quantity mass droppings

[Wild Cobra]

How is this laser type weapon?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M6EHV8U1Rc&feature=youtu.be

[Wild Cobra]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnTDEKqBXJA

[CosmicCowboy]

what im trying to say is, if you hold onto the trigger that laser beam will always be moving forward

if you release the trigger, whatever laser beam has been shot out does it keep on moving forward? or does it fade into the distance getting weaker speed it travels at

Does 299 792 458 m / s ring a bell?