army tests 'Laser-Guided Lightning'

[E6722maj Profile]

"There's been a fair bit of buzz online of late over experiments with a technology called a "laser-induced plasma channel" – essentially, laser-guided, artificially generated lightning bolts – at the Army's Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. But, militarily, what's it good for?
The problem, one well-informed source told AOL Defense, is short range. If you set up Picatinny's lightning gun at one end of a football field, it couldn't hit a target at the other end: The beam fizzles out well before it gets 100 yards."

http://defense.aol.com/2012/07/05/why-t ... lightning/

- this, to me, sounds like it would make an ideal 'group taser'

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[The57ironman Profile]

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......watch for them at traffic stops...



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[E6722maj Profile]

first thing i thought of was 'urban pacification'

you could certainly control a crowd if you tasered them en masse. but they wouldn't do such a thing, surely...........?

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[The57ironman Profile]

first thing i thought of was 'urban pacification'

you could certainly control a crowd if you tasered them en masse. but they wouldn't do such a thing, surely...........?

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......i would think they would decommission a vehicle rather than use them on humans...........






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[Shaggietrip Profile]

Very interesting.

The guidance will indeed be an issue. I am sure it is not a prb creating such things. Getting it to go where you want will be. The full article does touch on this. As some laser bombs need guidance this will also. Dont think throwing a scope on this weapon will do much good.


Cool post thanks for the read.