But, I will say, if this is the best it get's for military lasers.....then, I don't think any type of laser weapon was a factor on 9/11.
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It’s one of a number of steps forward for real-life ray guns in the past year or so. “Solid state” electric lasers finally hit what’s commonly considered battlefield strength. A laser-equipped Air Force gunship disabled a truck with its energy beam. A ground-mounted ray gun blasted drones out of the sky. But all of those energy weapons were weak — and the engineering challenges limited — compared to last night’s shoot-down.
A short-range, Scud-like ballistic missile was launched from an at-sea mobile launch platform near the Point Mugu Naval Air Warfare Center, off of the central California coast. “Within seconds, the Airborne Laser Test Bed [ALTB] used on-board sensors to detect the boosting missile and used a low-energy laser to track the target. The ALTB then fired a second low-energy laser to measure and compensate for atmospheric disturbance. Finally, the ALTB fired its megawatt-class High Energy Laser, heating the boosting ballistic missile to critical structural failure. The entire engagement occurred within two minutes of the target missile launch, while its rocket motors were still thrusting,” according to a statement from the Missile Defense Agency.
This is a test the MDA was hoping to conduct in 2002, after spending about a billion dollars. But the Airborne Laser ran into all kinds of problems along the way. The chemicals the jet depended on to generate its high-strength laser weighed down the 747. Getting the laser to accurately zap through the atmosphere proved tougher than anticipated. The Airborne Laser eventually ballooned into a $7.3 billion project. Finally, Defense Secretary Robert Gates got so fed up, he told the MDA to end the Airborne Laser program after a single jet.“I don’t know anybody at the Department of Defense who thinks that this program should, or would, ever be operationally deployed,” Gates told Congress last year. “The reality is that you would need a laser something like 20 to 30 times more powerful than the chemical laser in the plane right now to be able to get any distance from the launch site to fire
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Anything we are allowed to see is 50 year old technology. What new has come along - seriously revolutionary stuff I mean.
ReplyDeleteBefore 1950 we had, jets, boolean logic and computers, nuclear energy, mass production of cars, radio & TV.
After 1950 what do we get ? Better TV, better computers, better jets, better rockets, better artillary, better cars - evolutionary refinements of old technology.
A few significant things are new mag resonance imaging, lasers, nuclear fusion, but you would expect new revolutionary technologies to come onto the scene in exponential quantities.
I think rockets are old tech. Why not just drop 50 kg of uranium from space ? - let it hit the ground at 25,000 miles an hour - simpler than a nuclear bomb laden rocket, and it cannot be stopped.
"Anything we are allowed to see is 50 year old technology"
ReplyDeleteThis test, was the latest and greatest for the US military.
When the US got the bomb, the nuclear bomb, they promptly dropped two of the them on Japan.
If the US had a very advanced laser weapon system, of the sort that could destroy buildings, to the point of dust, you can be sure, the world would know.
So it could quake in it's boots.
OMG !!!!!
ReplyDeleteTHEY HAVE A DEATH RAY!!!!
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Awh shit what in the world will they think of next? And all I want is to find a way to get my toaster to make TOAST not CHAR.
ReplyDeleteI want them to invent a bathtub drain plug that works.
ReplyDeletePenny, the death ray could never work over long distances, too much variation in the atmosphere - causes the beam to bend and diffract. They new this - no doubt - easy to predict - just like AGW is easy to see - it was a make work project.
The army is really all about waste first, efficient killing second - which is just another form of waste- according to M*A*S*H* and the Report From Iron Mountain - did you ever read it ?
I think they used some kind of beam from space or from the ground on 9/11 (or Dolly Partons breasts with implanted plastique explosives). I don't think this laser is anything special but I'm no laser expert but on the other hand I know some things about lasers.