Comments on: Inside the Air Force’s Laser Lab

By: Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry

Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:00:17 +0000

Just another popgun-tech ‘wikitedia’ website:
1. You don’t need a GF to disperse personnel– just a neural-code stream that projects ‘burn’ through an LPL-ionized airpath. (cf those old stimulated-color spinning B&W-wheels; Even Star Trek The Classic had ‘like’ neural-neutralizers.)
2. Multi-Interferometry-Laser (MIL) chews like a drill-bit rather than bang-bang-slow pile-driver.
3. Night-Blinding-Laser (NBL) doesn’t even damage vision:– just strobes spots-and-streaks into the eyes. (cf Try finding a blinking beacon at night: it’s all-over-the-place as the eyes look-about).
Well, On-with my legal-drama screenplaywriting…
Ray.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 06:05:20 +0000

Anybody can get hold of a Jane’s Weapons and find the United States Government spent 25 years developing a LASER TANK actually a modified APC carrying generators to power an infra red LASER.
THE WEAPON IS FULLY DEVELOPED AND IN THE ARSENAL.
Smaller rayguns are deployed on Naval ships the best known is the Ferranti 630 which can put 750W on a bullet sized target and has a pulse rate of fire indicating the target is vapourized. It is categorized as an ANTI SPACE WEAPON. To make a lethal weapon you use ultraviolet to make air conductive and send an electric charge or at low power to stun, British Police have them, as usual I wonder if Americans can read. Most military and other technology predates war secrecy from the 1918–39 peace when all Scientists of all nations actually had a chat with each other. You keep them stuck in secret boxes and they DUPLICATE RESEARCH AND WASTE TIME.You get a hundred Scientists from the same Professor and they all do the same research as they are not supposed to chat with each other. You pay a hundred times for the same discovery. This madness and waste typifies the military mind . It is better to encourage project proliferations and keep everybody knowing where the front of research is and trying to get ahead.
This creates a massive staffing problem for espionage as the knowledge pours out in torrents and the applications are frequently developed by laypersons as innovation not research. Hence by the time anybody knows what is going on it is too late. Swaddling reseaarch under so called secrecy means you pay too much to remain obsolete. Check out a Jane’s and you will find the answers have been found by the British already. A fireball projector does not need a super powerful LASER just a moderately good air ionizer you connect to a homopolar generator equivalent to say one GigaFarad then by locking on to target with a dual beam, one being Earth connected you blow the Bogey to Kingdom Come. This is logical. To use the LASER to do the whole job is illogical. Air can work with you. It does not have to only block transmission. Ferranti likely has all you need on the shelves.

By: David Hambling

David Hambling — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:29:05 +0000

As it says in the NewSci piece -
“The ACCM is being developed at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico…” — that’s where ScorpWorks is!

By: Mc@Kirtland

Mc@Kirtland — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 22:01:01 +0000

Sounds like they based a lot of their effort on the work done at Kirtland in Albuquerque, NM.

By: pedestrian

pedestrian — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:27:55 +0000

Sweet sweet dreamland. I love it.