Many Lasers Become One In Lockheed Martin's 30 kW Laser Weapon 202
Zothecula writes "In another step forward for laser weapons that brings to mind the Death Star's superlaser, Lockheed Martin has demonstrated a 30-kilowatt fiber laser produced by combining many lasers into a single beam of light. According to the company, this is the highest power laser yet that was still able to maintain beam quality and electrical efficiency, paving the way for a laser weapon system suitable, if not for a Death Star, for a wide range of air, land, and sea military platforms."
Please place all shark jokes in this thread. (Score:5, Insightful)
Lets keep them in one place, nice and tidy.
Re:Please place all shark jokes in this thread. (Score:4, Insightful)
Combing many lasers into one?
This isn't sharks, this is a DEATH STAR.
Unfitting. No use case. ROI = 0. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Newtonian physics and ballistics don't apply! (Score:5, Insightful)
So your example of a nice, predictable weapon is a stream of bullets subject to gravity and wind, or a self-guided package of explosives, while your idea of unpredictability is a collimated beam of photons.
Sweet deus.