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The Navy Testing Frikn' Laser

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With their new high-energy laser weapon, the U.S. Navy has succeeded in combining buccaneers and Buck Rogers. Called the Maritime Laser Demonstrator, the ray gun quickly disabled a small boat in a recent test. Such lasers could one day protect military vessels from the same kind of tiny boat that almost sunk the destroyer U.S.S. Cole by augmenting the small machine guns already aboard American warships.

The test, conducted on April 6th by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), marks the first time that a high energy laser has properly functioned as a weapon on the high seas. Offensive lasers often have problems in dynamic environments like the ocean, and have so far proven mostly useless in battle. Due to that dicey history, the lessons learned while developing the laser may prove more valuable than the laser itself

"We are learning a ton from this program - how to integrate and work with directed energy weapons," said Peter Morrison, program officer for the ONR. "All test results are extremely valuable regardless of the outcome."

As you can see in the below video, the laser works by slowly burning a hole through the boat's engine. Since it lacks the blast of a "Star Wars"-style laser, or even the force of the machine guns already used for ship defense, ONR designed the laser to complement and diversify, rather than replace, the systems already protecting American warships, Morrison said.

ONR developed the laser in conjunction with the defense company Northrop Grumman. The program had a ceiling value of $98 million, and took about two and a half years to complete.

I was hoping for an explosion, but still pretty cool.

Next phase "frickin sharks with frickin lasers on their heads".

Not too impressive. I'll take frickin' 20 mike mike over that any day.

Right now I see the coast guard using it as an interdiction weapon. A boat does stop lase it's engines.

Without the scifi explosions from laser hits they realign lose a lot of coolness

very cool! now how do i mount on on the z to get rid of traffic on my morning commute?

that was only the 14 kV demonstration. They lazed it for about 3-5 secs and boom one motor down then the motor caught on fire then the other one did. The navy has a 100 kV laser system on battleships and carriers and can burn through 20ft of Steel a Second!!!! not a typo 20ft/sec!!!! :tup:

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Originally Posted by Bullitt@UAMotorsports (Post 1048707)

Wow! That, I want to see. Can you imagine this being pointed at someone's head...ouch! Sucks to be the 1st person in history to get lasered, Halo style.... come on Bin Laden, come out were we can see you.

Now that's a LASER. Though I think you mean 14 kiloWatts and 100 kiloWatts (power)

Now you can see why the Government doesn't have any Friggin money because out of all the motors they want to burn, they decide to burn whats seems to be BRAND SPANKING NEW Mercury 200's that cost roughly anywhere from $12-16k each ! Stupidity (but that is a pretty cool laser)

I cant wait to see when they testfire the railgun... :excited:

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Originally Posted by whoadeeson (Post 1049349)

You forgot the government mark up! so probably 100k each.

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Originally Posted by memorylasts (Post 1049458)

You forgot the government mark up! so probably 100k each.

Yikes! Let's hope they confiscated them from some drug runner.