Laser gun fired from US navy ship

Seen this earlier today on BBC website , thought it was pretty interesting and so decided to share it.
Pretty scary what kind of technology the USA has , glad they are on our side!


www.bbc.co.uk...

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Your link is dead. You might want to addresss that...

where is the laser?? Is that it at the 34 sec on the left of the boat or is that a camera.

Originally posted by zteam2012
where is the laser?? Is that it at the 34 sec on the left of the boat or is that a camera.

The boat is the target. You can see the laser make contact with the left outboard motor at 8 seconds on the video. Extremely accurate!

Thats a scary toy.

As expected, it only took seconds before the fire started, I dont think the U.S is really on our side either, I just hope they never use that thing on us or any human. OUCH

Originally posted by TheRealTruth84

Originally posted by zteam2012
where is the laser?? Is that it at the 34 sec on the left of the boat or is that a camera.

The boat is the target. You can see the laser make contact with the left outboard motor at 8 seconds on the video. Extremely accurate!

i meant where is the laser coming from.

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Ill-tempered, mutated sea bass

Is it just me or does anyone else think that was a total waste of an outboard motor. Why couldn't the pull a dummy ship to practice on. I now some guys that would kill to put those on a bass boat. It was pretty cool though but you would expect something much more Imperial Star Destroyer like for all the money they spend.

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Laser was mounted on a Navy destroyer, ex-USS Paul Foster, and fired from a mile away.

Seeing such waste really chaps my butt.

Two 200hp outboard boat motors totally destroyed.

No wonder our Federal budget is out of control.

On topic: That is a bad beam to use against our enemy.

I saw a normal microwave over turned into a really powerful weapon once.

Is this beam used in the demonstration akin to a microwave?

Forgive my ignorance but I am curious.

Bramble you beat me to it about the motors. You must be a boat person as I am. I could not believe my eyes when I saw those motors fry.

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Cool video, i hope the enemy will stand still..... and not chrome plate their engines.
I want better testing, yes it's a start but how do mirrored surfaces factor in?

Looks like a waste of time for that laser to be honest.

I was expecting the laser mentioned a few weeks ago that could penetrate 10meters/s, that would be good to see.
We have the lasers bolted onto aircrafts that shoot down missiles.

Setting fire to a plastic casing didn't look that impressive, I vote artillery shell next time.

I vote the good ole tin foil hat for protection, point it back at them!

We have much more powerful death rays. Interesting to note that instead of a cheap bouy they decided to destroy a very expensive engine on a very expensive boat. Like the military has money to burn.

Kinda disappointed. I was hoping for a bolt of light to come down on that boat and it bursting into flames.