And now, an article that includes the phrases “Death Star-style” and “laser-firing truck”:
Defense contractor Northrop Grumman is promising the Pentagon that it’ll have weapons-grade electric lasers by the end of 2008. Which means honest-to-goodness energy weapons might actually become a military reality… Northrop is promising to hit what’s widely considered to be the threshold for military-strength beams: 100 kilowatts. With that much energy, lasers should be able to knock mortars and rockets out of the sky. Northrop’s system combines a bunch of smaller lasers into a bigger one — Death Star-style, sorta. In March, the company announced that it had completed the first of these eight “laser chains.” Yesterday, the company said it had joined two of the chains together… “We are completely confident we will meet the 100 kW of power level and associated beam quality and runtime requirements of the JHPSSL Phase 3 program by the end of December, 2008,”… And it’s not the only energy weapon project that’s making progress. The Army just gave Boeing a $36 million contract to develop a laser-firing truck.
I would have included the part of the article with the phrase “airborne laser,” but that would’ve been just too much awesome for one post. Click.
References:
* Weapons-Grade Lasers by the End of ’08? [Danger Room]
* Pic [TIME]
Previously:
* Thursday Military Tech – Self-Healing Invisibility Shields
* Thursday Military Tech – Zionist Robo-Snipers
* Thursday Military Tech – The Totally Awesome Israeli Jets Of Operation Orchard
