US defence firm Lockheed Martin has developed a laser that can knock out the engine of a small truck

[weltweit]

US defence firm Lockheed Martin has developed a laser that can knock out the engine of a small truck from more than a mile away.
http://news.sky.com/story/1440116/laser-weapon-burns-through-truck-from-a-mile

So laser weapons, who'd have thunk it !!

 

[Belushi]

There was something in the papers yesterday about a company selling hover boards next year.

The future, were finally there :thumbs :

 

[twentythreedom]

You mean a laser that can incinerate multiple people from more than a mile away

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Then it's not a laser!

 

[JTG]

 

[Pickman's model]

that's nothing, i have a bag of sand that can fuck the engine of a small truck.

 

[stuff_it]

US defence firm Lockheed Martin has developed a laser that can knock out the engine of a small truck from more than a mile away.
http://news.sky.com/story/1440116/laser-weapon-burns-through-truck-from-a-mile

So laser weapons, who'd have thunk it !!

According to Jeremy Clarkson all I need is a decent layer of frozen pizza and I'm laughing. Thank fuck for Aldi and Lidl.

 

[peterkro]

Er,surely a silver backed mirror is going to defeat this and possibly take out some citizen passing by in there Toyota.

 

[golightly]

Also, said truck will have to keep still while the laser 'penetrates engine components in seconds'.

 

[Cid]

They have a ship mounted one on board the er... USS Ponce.

 

[Fez909]

They have a ship mounted one on board the er... USS Ponce.

Here's a picture of it in action:

 

[Ted Striker]

that's nothing, i have a bag of sand that can fuck the engine of a small truck.

My piss is even cheaper, though not perhaps with as quick results. Handy bit of knowledge in case of emergency tho.

 

[EastEnder]

Er,surely a silver backed mirror is going to defeat this and possibly take out some citizen passing by in there Toyota.

There may be a few practical issues with plastering a vehicle with mirrors... not least of which would be keeping them spotlessly clean! Besides which, no mirror is a perfect reflector, some of the incident energy would be absorbed by the reflective surface - a powerful enough beam would still destroy the reflective material, after which its full power would then be absorbed by the target. TBF, you'd be better off with any kind of dense ablative armour, which would just burn away slowly, allowing the vehicle time to hide somewhere out of line of sight.

 

[weltweit]

Er,surely a silver backed mirror is going to defeat this and possibly take out some citizen passing by in there Toyota.

Countermeasures:

 

[DotCommunist]

just wear a tinfoil hat

 

[xenon]

Does it need a generator the size of a small truck to power it?

 

[weltweit]

Does it need a generator the size of a small truck to power it?

No, underneath all those mirrors it is just a standard Vespa scooter

 

[EastEnder]

The easiest way to avoid having your car zapped by lasers is to only go out driving when it's raining heavily or there's a lot of fog. Drivers in Scotland have near year round invulnerability.

 

[DotCommunist]

I think lazer weapons have become a self fulfilling prophecy. You've got people working at daarpa who grew up with star wars and trek's trusty phasers.

never mind that projectile weapons are tried, tested, more effective and have several hundred years of design refinements. They want lazers.

In 2020 they'll make a working lightsabre

 

[maomao]

They have a ship mounted one on board the er... USS Ponce.

Pronounced 'ponsay' and named after the second largest city in Puerto Rico.

 

[MikeMcc]

Great if the truck is 60 deg up from the roadway...

 

[Diamond]

They have a ship mounted one on board the er... USS Ponce.

I thought that was a railgun?

 

[weltweit]

Something else :

Boeing Patents Star Wars-Style Force Fields
http://news.sky.com/story/1450810/boeing-patents-star-wars-style-force-fields