[ExI] Power sats as weapons

spike spike66 at att.net
Sun Sep 9 22:25:30 UTC 2012


>... On Behalf Of Keith Henson
...

>>... It wouldn't be used for accomplishing that task.  A laser wouldn't 
> need to nuke the whole city, but rather just punch holes in the engine 
> compartments of the battle tanks... spike,

>...They are not *that* good, beam diameter would be a couple of meters at
the best.  And you can armor tanks to some extent with highly reflective
shields...

Ooops Keith is right, I mixed two different things.  We were talking about
lasers all the way out in GEO.  From that distance with any reasonable sized
reflector we would be unlikely to even get most of the energy into a 2 meter
diameter circle.  With current controls technology we would be in the 5 to
10 meter range.

spike




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