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March 18, 2009
Finally! Military Strength Lasers
No doubt just in time for the Obama administration to cut funding for them.
In recent test-blasts, researchers at Northrop Grumman managed to get its 105 kilowatts of power out of their laser -- past the "100kW threshold [that] has been viewed traditionally as a proof of principle for 'weapons grade' power levels for high-energy lasers," Northrop's vice president of directed energy systems, Dan Wildt, said in a statement.
That much power won't get you a Star Wars-style blaster. But it should be more than enough to zap the mortars and rockets that insurgents have used to pound American bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Now, about lightsabers....
posted by DrewM. at
10:25 AM
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