"How Laser Weapons Work" Topic
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Tango01  | 14 Aug 2024 4:51 p.m. PST |
"You may have seen them in "Star Wars," "Star Trek," and other science fiction films and shows. The X-wing fighters, the Death Star, the Millennium Falcon, and the Enterprise used laser weapons in great fictional battles to conquer and/or defend the universe. And starships aren't the only ones packing laser heat. Han Solo carried the blaster, a laser weapon, in "Star Wars", while Captain Kirk used a phaser in "Star Trek". All of these weapons used directed energy, in the form of a laser beam, to disable or kill an opponent.
But what are the advantages of using a laser as a weapon? Is it even possible? Could you use such a weapon to stun an opponent? These questions are being addressed by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate. This program is developing high-energy lasers, microwave technologies and other futuristic weapons systems…"
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| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 18 Aug 2024 3:14 p.m. PST |
The writer lost me at the outset with that anti-canonical characterization of various non-laser weapons as lasers. |
| Tango01 | 18 Aug 2024 3:55 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 25 Aug 2024 9:50 p.m. PST |
Not Laser… but… The military made a robot that can eat (people?) organisms for fuel link Armand |
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