US Army fires high-energy LASER from an Apache attack helicopter for the first time - destroying a target almost a mile...

>US Army fires high-energy LASER from an Apache attack helicopter for the first time - destroying a target almost a mile away
>Weapon is almost silent and invisible which makes it hard for enemies to detect
>First time a laser has successfully fired on a target from a rotary-wing aircraft
>Laser systems have been on the Apache since 1984 when it first entered service
>However, they were low-powered and could only guide air-to-ground missiles

dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4642558/High-energy-laser-gun-fires-Apache-helicopter.html

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*evil grin*

LASER COMMANCHES NOW

RUSSIA BTFO CHINA BTFO
NATO #1

Well better go invade Iran to test it on some human targets I guess

Why is our tablod/satire paper reporting on this?

>Iran
>human targets
Pick one.

Vertibirds!

they're warning the citizens what they will be up against because the police and likely the army will run away

IMMA FIRIN MAH LAZOR

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Get that Apache Shoop Da Woop livery ASAP

hm, good to know we'll have something to play with when the next big war starts. I'll reenlist.

China and Russia will just steal it though, since Americans no longer have loyalty and will do anything for money

Low Altitude Ion Canon?

lazers are total garbage in the atmosphere

railguns are superior in every way

Does the US military have secret battery/capacitor tech or is this a 1 shot deal?

let me rephrase that

Why is our tabloid/satire paper THE ONLY ONES reporting this

The Middle Iranian ērān and aryān are oblique plural forms of gentilic ēr- (Middle Persian) and ary- (Parthian), both deriving from Proto-Iranian *arya- (meaning "Aryan", i.e. "of the Iranians")
Jews fear the aryans

>tfw always preferred missiles/rockets/ballistics to lasers in games and media
>tfw we'll transition to gay ass star wars battles in our lifetimes

wtf this is almost as bad as when we went from cool swords and armor to faggy muskets and cloth.

Missile was never meta, hybrids were a meme, projectiles is old shit,
PULSE LASER ERA!

>Lasers and light sabers and shit are super gay.
>Shooting phallic objects at each other is also gay
Medieval warfare is the only manly form of warfare.

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>not shooting square blocks of depleted uranium at relativistic speeds

>businessinsider.com/army-laser-gun-apache-helicopter-2017-6

Probably we dumb so much cash into Black Projects.

There are ways of defeating lasers. Though they involve alot of reflecting and spinning. Ballistics will never go out of use.

Invisible lasers suck

nobody cares about your etymology, Arab rape baby

>swinging long metal phallic object at each other
>penetrating other men with your long hard metal phallus
>manly

D E L E T

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We need a chrome. A lot of chrome.

>hard to detect a laser beam

battlemechs in 30 minutes

you forgot to mention that it only has enough power for 2 shots. see you in 50 years when battery tech advances a microstep.

Other systems may become more useful now. Stealth systems that were given away by discharging weapons.
Could be that without heat detecting tech, especially at night, soldiers become very vulnerable.
Remember bonds invisible car from years ago. Not much point using that with a cannon, but now...?

What kind of target was that?

>codpiece

Cant go through smoke

Real life isn't like video games.

how could a laser destroy anything? it's just a concentrated beam of energy, and unless it hit a fuel tank, or munitions, would not it just burn a hole in target?

Just needed to put it out there thats all
Keep it hush hush after that, no more news
Its only the next low-key assassination weapon
Nothing to see here goy

>a mile

those 747s with lasers could destroy things up to 200 miles at least and they were never further developed because the range wasnt considered enough to be useful

Well it's not like missiles aren't a one shot deal.
And it's cheaper to recharge a capacitor than build a missile.

... are you retarded?

>Filp intellectuals

My guess would be radiation, at least on a living target.

They point it where the ammunition or personal is and boom the tank is gone.

That's exactly what it does
Useful so far for shooting down drones and missiles. Totally accurate and projectile speed is THE SPEED OF LIGHT.
They say they have a non lethal setting (to burn) vs humans.
I'd like to know the time they need to spend on target to achieve penetration but they know everybody wants to know that and they aren't going to show it.

>be 2017
>have miracle technology and more coming
>social order keeps decaying, while tech keeps improving

Lasers can be defeated by shiny paint

We Generals zero hour now boys, time for China to bring out the overlords

different targets, the 747 laser beams were supposed to be part of the missile shield.

Next!

Forgot to say that melting a small hole is what armour piercing weapons do by using shaped charges and copper liners. Something like an anti tank middle makes a similar diameter hole to the laser but fires a blob of copper through it too.
All the explosion from an anti armour missile is simply to propel a 'beam' of copper, it looks impressive but the explosion itself wouldn't destroy armour without the copper penetrator.

recoil in a helicopter is no fun thing
targeting lasers have been perfected for 40 years, to account for all kinds of atmospheric distortion
now it's just a matter of amping up the power

They didn't show what kind of damage it did to the tank, so I guess it didn't do much.

you discharge the capacitor, and charge it again, with that thingy that powers the other rotating thingy

How?
It still just fires a projectile it's just an over glorified gun.

This sounds impressive to the layman but the "target" could have been a balloon for all we know.

Lasers that destroy things and aircraft aren't compatible. The biggest bottleneck with lasers is that they need big, heavy power sources so always be skeptical of anything involving lasers and aircraft.

They're having enough problems deploying a usable laser on a SHIP but you're expected to believe they have a viable one mounted on a helicopter?

What will happens when they bring out manpads that follow the beam like it was a targeting laser....

Middle
>missile

fairly certain that helicopters dont fire railguns

That's the plan ma goy! What good is all this fun tech without a world of targets to use it on?

we abaddon now
>mfw no powergrid

...

congrats
your camo is gone
and you are now a shining beacon, giving up your position, to attract conventional attacks

America #1 faggot.
We aren't helping you cheap faggots anymore.

failbaddon desu

tfw too poor for a Nyx

did you figure that out all by yourself?

>so always be skeptical of anything involving lasers and aircraft.
well to be fair we have mounted nuclear reactors to planes before.

>Annual military budget of literal billions
>All this tech
>Still can't win a war
Is the US army the most incompetent army in existence?

so, redwolf is a thing now?

where are they?
they had 40 years to develop
good luck trying to pinpoint a beam of invisible radiation smaller than a square inch, without knowing the precise location where is targeting, and attack angle

FUCK YEAH

Old meme

but the projectile travels much MUCH faster than one shot from conventional gun

lasers may be ok on short to mid tange but beams quickly disperse and lose energy especialy in dusty/humid air

iirc it was only one prototype and it was determined to be a dead end. It has never been tried since.

It goes against all common sense that early, successful lasers, a weapon requiring a heavy, bulky power source will be deployed on an aircraft. The first viable units will be ground based, then mounted on ship and vehicles. aircraft will come last.

We can't win shit because our leash holders keep yanking us every time we want to chew into things bone deep. We don't fight to win anymore, we just fight for the sake of prolonging fights.
In a timeline without Geneva or ROE the U.S would be the only state of government left, and likely human population as well.

>>Weapon is almost silent and invisible which makes it hard for enemies to detect

Laser warning systems are dead simple to make and deploy...lasers are only invisible to the naked eye.

Nah.
Political reasons.
American troops used to be known as ill disciplined retards in the mid twentieth century but by comparison now they are the ones with all the experience.

thanks

No, we haven't. We built a few oversized prototypes that were too large to put into a plane and then we scrapped the whole project when we realized that the weight of the shielding you'd need to protect the crew would be about the weight of the plane itself.

The Russians, however, did build a tiny test reactor and put it into a plane. They flew it a couple times, turned it on once, made the same realization we did about shielding, and shelved it.

>We built a few oversized prototypes that were too large to put into a plane and then we scrapped the whole project when we realized that the weight of the shielding you'd need to protect the crew would be about the weight of the plane itself.
no, i'm pretty sure we actually did put a nuclear reactor in a 747 or something.

No, we did not.

>US army
>incompetent
Hahahahahahaha. Revolutionary War. War of 1812. Mexican-American War. The Indian Wars. Both World Wars have us on the top. The Korean War. As of recent it's been pussy presidents that have restricted our shear power. The size of America's balls are twice that of everyone in the Cuckpean-Union combined

That's the process we've just gone through.
They have been mounted as defensive systems on bases, tanks, ships etc.
The system isn't too big compared to other systems now.
Every aircraft will have a defensive/offencive laser soon
It will force the enemy to RELY ON GUNS AGAIN!

> Unlike the planned Convair X-6, the three-megawatt air-cooled reactor in the NB-36H did not power any of the aircraft's systems, nor did it provide propulsion, but was placed on the NB-36H to measure the effectiveness of the shielding.[1]
there you go, you're wrong. we did put a nuclear reactor in a plane.

And this.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_aircraft#NEPA_and_ANP

I've actually been to see these reactors - they're like 10x the size of a plane's fuselage.

They hooked them up to some engines and that's it. They never put them into a plane.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_NB-36H
We built it and put it on the plane, but it wasn't actually being used for flight.

Top Gun time
Then the defensive laser will also be used for dog fighting.
This could make missiles far less useful unless redesigned to resist laser fire

Defensive maybe. Unless there is a big jump n tech sometime soon lasers will only be viable as defensive counter-sensor weapons. The energy levels required to actually destroy things cannot currently be packaged into a combat aircraft imo.

It might be possible in something like a dedicated heavy lifting cargo plane, maybe, if you fill the whole thing with a powerplant.

Jews believe that Aryans are descendents of a nephilim called Amalek. The Amalekites were present in Canaan when the kikes decided to march in and take it. They described the Amalekites as giants.

True but you loose ballistics because the projectile isn't dense enough, rail guns cant fire lead or other nonferrous materials.
And in order to get those speeds you need a very long gun far longer then can be mounted in a helicopter.

I remember my m8 telling me how sat navs fill the car boot with electronics in 04 when I'd just seen the first small mass produced ones.
We don't get to see the constant refinements made incognito

>creat 10 gazillion dollar lazer
>attach laser to 50 million dollar chopper
>shot laser at shit skin from one mile away
>be defeated by a mirror

>Both World Wars have us on the top
This is bait right?

Yeah. They can fire nonferrous metals if they case them.

Literally bringing a knife to a gun fight.