Airborne lasing of enemy personnel. Stealthily. Can volcano lancing be far behind?
The Advanced Tactical Laser, weighing twelve thousand pounds and mounted in a Hercules transport plane, is intended to give Special Forces Command “ultra-precision strike capability” against a wide range of ground targets. Its power is somewhere in the hundred-kilowatt range.
According to the developers, the accuracy of this weapon is little short of supernatural. They claim that the pinpoint precision can make it lethal or non-lethal at will. For example, they say it can either destroy a vehicle completely, or just damage the tires to immobilize it.
Apparently one of the benefits is though to include “deniability,” but it seems to me that even the more superstitiously retrograde are going to put one and one together when their comrades spontaneously combust.
I think I liked it better when we left a card.
Let me know when they use it to pop corn…
I think having random bad guys burst in to flames has a pretty useful psychological effect whether they put two and two together or not…
I want one.
Mounted on a shark.
Hell, I want one … mounted on family mini-van!
Finally, a frickin’ laser…
XBradTC ~ I loved that movie!!
Most weapons developers claims ARE supernatural
Ah, finally! Now I can say, “O.K. Gunny, light ‘em up.”
Depending on the capability of the laser, instead of leaving a card, you might be able to etch your signature into your work. “Flamed by Lex”
Roachman, that should read:
a frickin’ “laser“
I like this whole concept – talk about bringing it hard. And invisible too!
XBradTC – great “Real Genius” ref…
Kris-,
You’ve out-geek checked me.
Well played, madame. Well played.
After hearing about this, I just had to watch Real Genius. It was a “moral imperative”. Good flick.
I’m sure it was fantastic back in ’85, but now it looks like life imitating art.
Roachman: I’m just keepin’ it real.