The US Army to Deliver Its 50-kW Laser Combat Vehicles in 2022 (i.e., Stryker with friggin' lasers on its head)

[The Heretic]

The US Army to Deliver Its 50-kW Laser Combat Vehicles in 2022 - Interesting Engineering

Four laser weapon-equipped Stryker vehicles are in the works.

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[The Heretic]

US Army Commissions 300-kW Laser Weapon System, the Biggest So Far - Interesting Engineering

The contract is aimed at design demonstration, says the awardee.

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[3MTA3]

Kind of gives the phrase "lighting one up" a whole new meaning

 

[DivCurlGrad72]

 

[GWS]

Charles Esten? I've seen him on "Who's Line Is It Anyway". Great comedian!

 

[edzz]

Wow, just wow, and I thought the Space Force would be the first to get ray guns. Who'd of thunk.

 

[3MTA3]

Wonder how long before the Marines start using them to melt their crayons so they can get a hot meal?

 

[P7M13]

What they really wish they could put into the vehicles. A squad of these....

 

[3MTA3]

What they really wish they could put into the vehicles. A squad of these....

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Mrs 3M does this to me on a regular basis. Perhaps this is the best use for female combat soldiers? Just let them get married and it's automatic.

 

[P7M13]

This would be mine....

 

[Snip]

Used to use a CNC laser that was 6mev that could cut up to 1/4" steel. What good would a 300kw laser do on the battlefield? Laser target designator? Something to range and target better?

 

[chukar]

Wonder how long before the Marines start using them to melt their crayons so they can get a hot meal?

Creynons is so 90, duhhh.

Eet poopcorns, its got the fiber stuff.

 

[Certaindeaf]

Wow, just wow, and I thought the Space Force would be the first to get ray guns. Who'd of thunk.

Energy weapons have been in orbit since Reagan.

 

[The Heretic]

Used to use a CNC laser that was 6mev that could cut up to 1/4" steel. What good would a 300kw laser do on the battlefield? Laser target designator? Something to range and target better?

6 MeV

0.00000000000000000026703 kWh

 

[Snip]

6 MeV

0.00000000000000000026703 kWh

Sounds pretty low. Maybe 6MW? Anyway, it was a C02 laser cutting aluminum and steel. The linear accelerator from another company must have been in the mev range.

 

[FireArm]

i hear next they are mounting them on sharks to patrol the coastline, also working on a liquid hot magma cannon...
but they will stop for one million dollars! muahahaha

 

[The Heretic]

Sounds pretty low. Maybe 6MW? Anyway, it was a C02 laser cutting aluminum and steel. The linear accelerator from another company must have been in the mev range.

I am given to understand that cutting lasers as in the 5-20 KW range.

A megawatt laser would be huge and would require a power station outside the facility.

 

[Ura-Ki]

The U.S. Navy currently deploys a pair of 300KW lasers in it's newest Destroyers, and has the contracts for a newer 660KW laser system to be installed later this year!

I don't remember what kind of output, but back in the early 2000s the Air Force was experimenting with airborne laser systems that could shoot down all kinds of threats, including Ballistic re-entry vehicles, bombers, and fighters! It worked as advertised, but I never saw any enter service!

 

[The Heretic]

I don't remember what kind of output, but back in the early 2000s the Air Force was experimenting with airborne laser systems that could shoot down all kinds of threats, including Ballistic re-entry vehicles, bombers, and fighters! It worked as advertised, but I never saw any enter service!

As I recall, the downside was that those lasers required a dedicated aircraft of considerable size, were slow to recharge, and that anti-missile missiles were deemed more practical?

 

[DivCurlGrad72]

Energy weapons have been in orbit since Reagan.

Ronnie Ray-gun! Too bad we got wimpy Mr. Peanut II back in the Oval Office.