[extropy-chat] LASER: DARPA's HELLADS small laser weapon makes headway

[Dirk Bruere]

On 9/1/05, Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technovel_darpa_lasers_050830.html
> 
> The HELLADS is intended to be mountable on tactical aircraft, a Hummer,
> or UCAVs and offer performance of 5 kg/kW weapon weight with 150 kW
> beam energy. So it should come in at about 750 lbs in a design useful
> on the battlefield
> 

Better hope the enemy doesn't catch on to wrapping their mortar rounds etc 
in carbon fibre mat.
I've seen lasers with a higher power density than that stopped dead by it.
Makes a pretty light, though, as it re-radiates.
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