Comments on: Video: Navy's New Laser Weapon Shoots Down Drones http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/07/20/video-navys-new-laser-weapon-shoots-down-drones/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Black Powder Forum http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/07/20/video-navys-new-laser-weapon-shoots-down-drones/#comment-20672 Black Powder Forum Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:57:02 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=17717#comment-20672 You sure have made your point well here on the internet. I am sure that abilty will continue and grow over time. You sure have made your point well here on the internet. I am sure that abilty will continue and grow over time.

]]> By: J. Tiberius http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/07/20/video-navys-new-laser-weapon-shoots-down-drones/#comment-20671 J. Tiberius Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:36:41 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=17717#comment-20671 Lasers are cool, but I'm still waiting for photon torpedoes! Lasers are cool, but I’m still waiting for photon torpedoes!

]]> By: TheCritic http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/07/20/video-navys-new-laser-weapon-shoots-down-drones/#comment-20670 TheCritic Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:00:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=17717#comment-20670 "We have the power. Last spring, Northrop Grumman’s laser weapons engineers created a blaster that for the first time exceeded 100 kilowatts, which many viewed as the power needed for a weapons-grade laser." Yeah, it'll definitely make air supremacy interesting! I'm thinking that ones gonna make the ground more so, though. I mean, bullets are deadly and so are lasers, but I definitely think there's an intimidation factor with getting attacked by lasers. "Oh no! They're shooting at us!" "Yeah, with bullets." *whatever sound lasers actually make* "HOLY S**T! THEY'RE SHOOTING AT US WITH LASERS!" [Moderator's note: edited the cuss word.] “We have the power. Last spring, Northrop Grumman’s laser weapons engineers created a blaster that for the first time exceeded 100 kilowatts, which many viewed as the power needed for a weapons-grade laser.”

Yeah, it’ll definitely make air supremacy interesting! I’m thinking that ones gonna make the ground more so, though. I mean, bullets are deadly and so are lasers, but I definitely think there’s an intimidation factor with getting attacked by lasers.

“Oh no! They’re shooting at us!”
“Yeah, with bullets.”
*whatever sound lasers actually make*
“HOLY S**T! THEY’RE SHOOTING AT US WITH LASERS!”

[Moderator's note: edited the cuss word.]

]]> By: Aaron http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/07/20/video-navys-new-laser-weapon-shoots-down-drones/#comment-20669 Aaron Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:12:49 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=17717#comment-20669 Well, this should make air supremacy rather interesting! Well, this should make air supremacy rather interesting!

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