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US Army Testing Machine Gun-Style Laser Weapon That Vaporizes Targets
Posted on 3/2/21 at 3:28 pm
Posted on 3/2/21 at 3:28 pm
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The United States Army is developing a powerful new laser weapon capable of rapidly firing metal-vaporizing pulses, much like a machine gun.
The new weapon, called the Tactical Ultrashort Pulsed Laser for Army Platforms, is expected to be about a million times stronger than any other laser weapon out there, New Scientist reports. Based on the military’s plans for the weapon, the laser will more closely resemble the sorts of laser rifles in science fiction movies than anything engineers have built in the past.
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Posted on 3/2/21 at 3:29 pm to GumboPot
Star Wars blaster coming right up
Posted on 3/2/21 at 3:31 pm to GumboPot
It's time
Posted on 3/2/21 at 3:31 pm to GumboPot
You do all kinds of things but you disintegrate the mark just one time...
Posted on 3/2/21 at 3:32 pm to GumboPot
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Tactical Ultrashort Pulsed Laser for Army Platforms
I want my own TUPLAP, me.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 3:32 pm to JetsetNuggs
Posted on 3/2/21 at 3:33 pm to GumboPot
edit: too slow
This post was edited on 3/2/21 at 3:33 pm
Posted on 3/2/21 at 3:33 pm to Niner
Phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range?
Posted on 3/2/21 at 3:34 pm to GumboPot
ETA: god dammit ^
"Phased plasma rifle, in the 40W range"
"Phased plasma rifle, in the 40W range"
This post was edited on 3/2/21 at 3:35 pm
Posted on 3/2/21 at 3:34 pm to Kcrad
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I want my own TUPLAP
Seems like it could be related to a FUPA.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 3:34 pm to GumboPot
Does it come in the AR platform?
Posted on 3/2/21 at 3:40 pm to GumboPot
pew pew pew pew pew
Posted on 3/2/21 at 3:41 pm to GumboPot
And people want to act like us dumbass citizens with our semi auto guns would have any chance against our police let alone the military. If a revolution ever does happen in the US, it will have to be orchestrated with people within the military and police, along with the mass majority of the citizens. This isn't even mentioning the rail guns that they already have and I'm sure are improving upon.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 3:41 pm to GumboPot
Yeah, but have you seen the price of ammo lately?
Posted on 3/2/21 at 3:43 pm to GumboPot
More waste if taxpayers money.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 3:50 pm to GumboPot
Posted on 3/2/21 at 3:51 pm to GumboPot
The army in the next ME war we shouldn’t be in:
Posted on 3/2/21 at 3:56 pm to GumboPot
You missed this part, dude.
quote:Over/under on how long until cops have it?
Aside from building a more powerful laser in its own right, the military is leaning even further into sci-fi tropes and trying to give the weapon an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) effect as well. When the lasers strike metal, the plan is that they rapidly accelerate electrons that are strong enough to disrupt nearby electronics.
But while it sounds far-fetched, all of this is possible and feasible with tech that already exists today, Heriot-Watt University engineer Derryck Reid told New Scientist.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 3:59 pm to GumboPot
What are the magazine limits? We need common sense laser control.
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