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German Laser Destroys Targets More Than 1Km Away
kkleiner writes "A German company has brought us one step closer to the kinds of shootouts only seen in Sci-Fi films. Düsseldorf-based Rheinmetall Defense recently tested a 50kW, high-energy laser at their proving ground facility in Switzerland. First, the system sliced through a 15mm- (~0.6 inches) thick steel girder from a kilometer away. Then, from a distance of two kilometers, it shot down a handful of drones as they nose-dived toward the surface at 50 meters per second."
What can possibly go wrong...?! :p
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A 6' high ceiling? Where are you living, the Shire?
...Had this been an actual emergency, we would have fled in terror, and you would not have been informed.
I assume you mean 'pew-pew', unless you are, for some reason, particularly relieved at the successful testing of this laser...
Grammar Nazis!
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