What I love,is they are controlling the thing from a Dell Laptop, probably running Windows. I would laugh if the blue screen of death popped up while firing.
yup, scary ehh...although ill be dissapointed if isralei and more importantly, us brits, dont get some of that action :) we did support the iraq war...and afghanistan
Hopefully they'll be able to builder cheaper better systems to protect Sderot and other Israeli cities along the border. Russia and company have some catching up to do!
Red China has been deploying a ground based laser defense systems for quite some time now. Not sure about what they, or the Russians have done about airborne versions.
russia has old 1970s chemical lasers... way too big to be portable.. we want to put them on tanks, ships, and in the far future.... rifles and handheld weapons... "ala star trek."
Diablogamer45; The firestrike laser seems pretty small. Do you know what platform(s)it is intended for and what its potential targets are? It seems rather small to attack satellites from the surface or from atmospheric aircraft. I would suspect it would be mounted on road vehicles or aircraft. Do you know if its intended for the JSF?
The firestrike can apparently be used for destroying incoming projectiles such as RPG's, missiles, mortars, etc, and offensive precision strikes. I read it could be mounted on tanks /helis and has variable configuration. The US currently has the most comprehensive integrated sattelite network in the world, one which China hasn't come close to matching. Once Chinese (or other potential power threats) have, then you'll see US lasers made to blind them. Believe it is not intended for JSF.
well lasers have a lot of disadvantages compared to projectile weapons, until they're able to make small batteries powerful enough, laser weapons will be strictly limited to mounted versions on ships, tanks, planes, and other vehicles. unless people are fine carrying 20 car batteries on them. give it some 50 years, maybe 100.
What I love,is they are controlling the thing from a Dell Laptop, probably running Windows. I would laugh if the blue screen of death popped up while firing.
Jimbo898 3 years ago 8
yeah the awful blue screen problem. But managed to fix it by downloading latest version of bios
law8673 3 years ago
Power must be 100 kwatt.And it should work for 4 seconds to hit targets
Globalizator1 3 years ago
complicated design and you tube2a, broaden your horizons...
hansbenedikt 4 years ago
in the future, america will be using lazers and the rest will be still stuck with projectile weapons, ha, hilarious.
tube2a 4 years ago 2
yup, scary ehh...although ill be dissapointed if isralei and more importantly, us brits, dont get some of that action :) we did support the iraq war...and afghanistan
Snakebloke 4 years ago
Hopefully they'll be able to builder cheaper better systems to protect Sderot and other Israeli cities along the border. Russia and company have some catching up to do!
KaoriBlue 4 years ago
Red China has been deploying a ground based laser defense systems for quite some time now. Not sure about what they, or the Russians have done about airborne versions.
edwong3 3 years ago
russia has old 1970s chemical lasers... way too big to be portable.. we want to put them on tanks, ships, and in the far future.... rifles and handheld weapons... "ala star trek."
aleazcazan 3 years ago
Chinese lasers can blind sensitive spy satellites, not destroy missiles.
US now has firestrike laser ready, sorry you lose =)
diablogamer45 3 years ago 8
Diablogamer45; The firestrike laser seems pretty small. Do you know what platform(s)it is intended for and what its potential targets are? It seems rather small to attack satellites from the surface or from atmospheric aircraft. I would suspect it would be mounted on road vehicles or aircraft. Do you know if its intended for the JSF?
ATFSCrash 3 years ago
The firestrike can apparently be used for destroying incoming projectiles such as RPG's, missiles, mortars, etc, and offensive precision strikes. I read it could be mounted on tanks /helis and has variable configuration. The US currently has the most comprehensive integrated sattelite network in the world, one which China hasn't come close to matching. Once Chinese (or other potential power threats) have, then you'll see US lasers made to blind them. Believe it is not intended for JSF.
diablogamer45 3 years ago
And Firestrike is only 15 kW, which isn't small potatoes, but still. the 105.5 kW laser that has now passed the 3rd phase of JHPSSL is a bad boy.
techraan 2 years ago
well lasers have a lot of disadvantages compared to projectile weapons, until they're able to make small batteries powerful enough, laser weapons will be strictly limited to mounted versions on ships, tanks, planes, and other vehicles. unless people are fine carrying 20 car batteries on them. give it some 50 years, maybe 100.
baronofcheese 3 years ago