US Airforce Portable Laser Gun

[Karlos]

Hyperspeed wrote:
I've seen footage on Sky of large rotating turrets being aimed at radio controlled drone planes and the planes eventually blow up in mid air. I've even seen a giant water-cooling tower explode.

The laser being used doesn't appear as a red beam like in Star Wars, it's invisible and silent - which is kind of creepy!

Also, recently there have been incidences of civilian aircraft and even unidentified airliners having bright laser beams shone into their {bleep}pit windows during flights over Washington. This was initially thought to be rogue civilians but it turns out it's a prototype defence system.

You know, whenever I see 'AWACS' I always seem to think 'ear wax'... maybe I'm ill.

Probably an IR laser or a maser (especially if it heats water up in a hurry). If memory serves, masers are an even older technology than lasers.

[Karlos]

Indeed, Tom Clancy dicusses the use of a similar weapon in his book "Debt of Honor" when it is used to down a Japanese AWACS plane covertly.

It could also be used to deflect a plane on a suicide mission....

And for those of you unable to wait for his next book, try the "Tom Clancy Plot Generator" here... (towards the bottom of the page)

[Karlos]

@hyperspeed

Don't forget the canadian troops in afghanistan ;-)

[Karlos]

You see, you have all this firepower, with people I woudn't trust to be able to open a can of beans calling the shots on how to use it.

Is it any wonder?

@metalman

AC-130? Suits you sir! Ooohh! Oooh, do you feel the stirrings of an erection looking at those large weapons sir? Protruding suggestively from the fuselage, sir? Oooh! Suits you, sir!

:lol: