Anon1024001 (May 28, 2008 at 11:14 pm)

needs a shoop da whoop version

jimhigginson2000 (May 23, 2008 at 3:26 am)

this is fucken sweet the only down side is were only gonna make bigger lasers witch is fucken sweet and hopefully theyll get smaller but ......do u think our other ememys or bigger countries in the world wont counter act?or wont posses the same technolgy shit maybe they are workin on laser that will shoot these plans out of the sky were gonna blow the planet up one day i frink know it this is just gonna make other countries make stronger weapons the more we have they more they have..fuck

Lurchkenny (April 2, 2008 at 3:29 pm)

Remember a few years ago when N. Korea tried to test-launch a missle and the fuel tank blew up during the boost phase? I bet that was us. The laser targets the fuel tank.

Lurchkenny (April 2, 2008 at 3:29 pm)

Remember a few years ago when N. Korea tried to test-launch a missle and the fuel tank blew up during the boost phase? I bet that was us. The laser targets the fuel tank.

MinuteSpent (March 20, 2008 at 12:20 am)

its obvious this system is being tested for next generation satellite defence -

Jamesmessig (February 27, 2008 at 11:19 pm)

Yes, a mirror could reflect some of the light but all mirrors have finite reflectivity. Besides, there comes a point in reflecting concentrated energy that all mirrors, no matter what their reflectivity will breakdown and reflectivity will suddenly drop to a useless degree by the sudden onset of non-linear reflective properties. This happens for all reflective mirrored materials. Relize that the developers of the ABL have taken this into account. E&M induced current arcs on mirror cause burnthru

AnselmoFanZero (February 27, 2008 at 8:19 pm)

Useless if you got a good mirror! ;-)No joke...

Jamesmessig (February 24, 2008 at 10:00 am)

This is an amazing technology. There is no reason why systems further on down the line could not be 100 megawatt class lasers perhaps even more tightly focused. By the way, such a system might be used as a antipersonel weapon with a lethal range of 40 kilometers or more. It sounds cold, but zapping and frying a human target from a covertly operating YAL 747 ABL makes a lot more sense then sending in 150,000 U.S. troops to take down a regime and capture its leader. No offense intended but WOW!

LENIN190087 (February 7, 2008 at 8:22 am)

without initiation

NJRocks281 (February 2, 2008 at 4:42 pm)

falls back onto those who lauched it