Laser Takes Out Truck Engine From a Mile Away

Posted by Soulskill on Friday March 6, 2015 @06:48AM from the all-it-needs-is-an-orbital-targeting-platform-and-we-can-make-popcorn dept.

MutualFun (1730480) writes Aerospace company Lockheed Martin has used a laser to obliterate the engine of a small truck from more than a mile away. (Finally, Star Wars is making a comeback!) The company says, "The demonstration marked the first field testing of an integrated 30-kilowatt, single-mode fiber laser weapon system prototype. Through a technique called spectral beam combining, multiple fiber laser modules form a single, powerful, high-quality beam that provides greater efficiency and lethality than multiple individual 10-kilowatt lasers used in other systems."

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how much it took by cachimaster · 2015-03-06 06:55 · Score: 3, Insightful

Maybe it took a week to make a small hole, that's an important detail.
Re:NOT a joking matter: Moths in your pocketbook. by jellomizer · 2015-03-06 08:54 · Score: 3, Insightful

But there are other governments/organizations paying other corporations a lot of currency to come up with weapons to kill us.
The nice thing about Lasers is that it is a directed weapon so you can hit your target, and not hurt what is around it.

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