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Re: Laser guns are almost here

PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:45 am
by Onix
I want a black hole laser in Icar. Or maybe they're all black hole lasers? :confused:

I'm not entirely sure if I believe a metamaterial black hole would exhibit Hawking radiation but it would be cool to find out.

Re: Laser guns are almost here

PostPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 7:41 pm
by Chainsaw Aardvark
Even if lasers are a ways off - a new concept is fast approaching. There is a project known as Wiki-Weapon that is attempting to make guns that can be reproduced on 3D printers.

At least at the moment, a rapid prototype machine costs ten to twenty times more than a handgun, so arguments about making firearms available to everyone ring a bit hollow. Furthermore, the thermoplastic used by these machines probably can't withstand firing most commonly used cartridges - rendering the exercise somewhat impractical.

Kind of scary really, I'm pretty sure some of our games warned us about this.

Re: Laser guns are almost here

PostPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 9:48 pm
by kumakami

Re: Laser guns are almost here

PostPosted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 3:34 am
by Onix

Re: Laser guns are almost here

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 1:24 pm
by tygertyger

Re: Laser guns are almost here

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 3:31 pm
by J.K.Mosher
They should Red Dwarf's example . . .

Switch from Soft Light to Hard Light . . . :)

Re: Laser guns are almost here

PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 10:13 am
by Onix
And in the latest news, a .

At 1 Km the 50Kw weapon could cut through a 15 mm thick (half inch) steel girder. The wording is a bit ambiguous though. It doesn't say how fast it could cut through it or if it only punched a hole or sliced the thing in half. Even under the most conservative of those interpretations, that's a lot of heat on target, steel is not easy to burn through.

It was able to take down drones and a fast moving (50 m/s) metal "ball" (I'm assuming this was a hollow sphere).

Re: Laser guns are almost here

PostPosted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 1:42 pm
by Onix


Unfortunately the gun is just the nozzle end of a half ton laser. (Or is that fortunately?) Anyway, it gives an idea of what a laser of that power can do. Even if it's only a few inches away from the object it's cutting.

Re: Laser guns are almost here

PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 4:05 pm
by DOC_Agren
Battlefield Laser

getting closer and closer

Re: Laser guns are almost here

PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 4:33 pm
by Onix
At slow motion 300 fps it takes 13 seconds to detonate. That's about 2.5 to3 seconds real time I think.

So 30kw at 1.5 km can detonate the warhead of a missile. Interesting data.