Navy Demonstrates its new LASER GUN! OMG!

[Lodestar]

STAR WARS LIVES ON...

Here's a paper on it:

Navy Shipboard Lasers for Surface, Air, and
Missile Defense: Background and Issues for
Congress

Ronald O'Rourke
Specialist in Naval Affairs
July 31, 2014

http://fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/R41526.pdf

[yuiyoshida]

1. Some new toys for

big Boys for Christmas. wow.

[Helen Borg]

5. How it works :)

[drynberg]

2. CAUTION: LINK ABOVE JUDGED AS A SERIOUS THREAT, GO AT YOUR OWN RISK

[Lodestar]

3. WHAT are you talking about???? n/t

[Android3.14]

4. Who judged it a serious threat?

Reminds me of an asshole running into a theater and yelling "Fire!"

[Cooley Hurd]

8. It's a link to a PDF.

[another_liberal]

6. I wonder when we'll see the "Crowd control" version?

Don't think it isn't coming.

[jtuck004]

7. Hmmm...

[FairWinds]

9. And with sexy music too . .

how sweet. Too bad the PTB have zero interest in putting as
many resources into human welfare.
The ones I dislike the most are the merchants of death who
develop those diabolical machines and profit so greatly
from them.
I'd like to test that laser on the houses of the scientists that
made it - after getting the people out.
Veterans For Peace

[Dont call me Shirley]

10. When are you weapons makers going to use technology for healing instead of destruction!?

When are you going to use your bio weapons program to clean up the poisoned environment? When are you going to stop creating your sick bizarre fantasies of destruction and start creating tools of healing?

As long as you continue making tools of destruction you are making creations based on wrong thinking. You will always be wrong until you begin healing instead of attacking. Your thoughts are wrong. Your actions are wrong. Your creations are wrong. You are wrong.

Attack is wrong. Attack is always wrong. Attack path leads to death and destruction.

Healing is the correct path. Healing is the path of rejuvenation and becoming whole. Begin to heal your poisoned wrong thinking mind. Pull your attack thoughts out like removing invasive weeds. All of your attack thoughts are poisoning and killing this world. Stop attacking. Begin the work of healing.

Begin the work of healing. For the sake our well being begin the process of healing.

[SalviaBlue]

12. Good question!!!! and very well stated!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. Big deal. Jonny Quest beat this with a mirror.

[dotymed]

13. All of this money for killing.

Of course "our" congress will soon pass a bill that will kill many more poor AMERICANS.

IDC how docile TPTB think they have made our citizens, the time will inevitably come when Americans take up arms against what is now claiming to be America.
IF we elect Bernie Sanders as POTUS, his actions have been for real Americans, we may be able to peacefully re-take America from the oligarchs who currently destroy our country and our people.
I feel like average Americans are the modern equivalent of Native Americans to "our" past government.

[Fred Sanders]

16. A missile still does the same thing better...just waste of ever more money...how much over budget?

[Sam1]

14. How well does it work in the Fog?

[sulphurdunn]

15. A defense against such a weapon

should not be difficult. Ah, the arms race.

[tclambert]

17. Wrap your missile in reflective mylar.

The tin foil defense.

[tclambert]

18. Is it infrared? Pulsed?

How do they avoid thermal bloom? How many shots per minute can it fire? How many shots before it overheats? How does it fair against mirrors?

That's probably all classified for now, but I'm really curious how they dealt with the problems uncovered by previous attempts at laser weaponry.

Personally, I expect more from kinetic energy weapons, for instance, railguns:

[penndragon69]

19. Really nice PR piece!

But since the laser is INVISIBLE, there is absolutely NO evidence that it actually does ANYTHING.
The defense department will do whatever they have to do to keep the money pouring in.