>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
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
Julian Williams
Low Altitude Ion Canon?
Christopher Jackson
lazers are total garbage in the atmosphere
railguns are superior in every way
Andrew Thomas
Does the US military have secret battery/capacitor tech or is this a 1 shot deal?
Ian Roberts
let me rephrase that
Why is our tabloid/satire paper THE ONLY ONES reporting this
Jacob Martin
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
Kevin Jenkins
>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.
Parker Richardson
Missile was never meta, hybrids were a meme, projectiles is old shit, PULSE LASER ERA!
Gabriel Murphy
>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.
Lucas Allen
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Jayden Walker
>not shooting square blocks of depleted uranium at relativistic speeds
Probably we dumb so much cash into Black Projects.
Camden Cruz
There are ways of defeating lasers. Though they involve alot of reflecting and spinning. Ballistics will never go out of use.
Ayden Thompson
Invisible lasers suck
Hudson Green
nobody cares about your etymology, Arab rape baby
Oliver Hughes
>swinging long metal phallic object at each other >penetrating other men with your long hard metal phallus >manly
Christopher Collins
D E L E T
Joshua Davis
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Cameron Reyes
We need a chrome. A lot of chrome.
Luke Martinez
>hard to detect a laser beam
David Sanchez
battlemechs in 30 minutes
Jackson Wilson
you forgot to mention that it only has enough power for 2 shots. see you in 50 years when battery tech advances a microstep.
Grayson Sullivan
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...?
Nicholas Long
What kind of target was that?
Hudson Hall
>codpiece
Kayden Clark
Cant go through smoke
Isaiah Parker
Real life isn't like video games.
Tyler Gonzalez
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?
Kevin Mitchell
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
Nathaniel Morris
>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
Landon Bailey
Well it's not like missiles aren't a one shot deal. And it's cheaper to recharge a capacitor than build a missile.
Josiah Wood
... are you retarded?
Jackson Reyes
>Filp intellectuals
Jaxon Morales
My guess would be radiation, at least on a living target.
Cooper Cruz
They point it where the ammunition or personal is and boom the tank is gone.
Colton Peterson
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.
Blake Murphy
>be 2017 >have miracle technology and more coming >social order keeps decaying, while tech keeps improving
Luis Walker
Lasers can be defeated by shiny paint
Alexander Harris
We Generals zero hour now boys, time for China to bring out the overlords
Luke Bennett
different targets, the 747 laser beams were supposed to be part of the missile shield.
Parker Price
Next!
Joseph Green
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.
Jaxon Gonzalez
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
Blake Brown
They didn't show what kind of damage it did to the tank, so I guess it didn't do much.
David Hughes
you discharge the capacitor, and charge it again, with that thingy that powers the other rotating thingy
Easton Morgan
How? It still just fires a projectile it's just an over glorified gun.
Nathan Brooks
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?
Kayden Murphy
What will happens when they bring out manpads that follow the beam like it was a targeting laser....
Aiden Ortiz
Middle >missile
Eli Collins
fairly certain that helicopters dont fire railguns
Connor Parker
That's the plan ma goy! What good is all this fun tech without a world of targets to use it on?
Jace Ross
we abaddon now >mfw no powergrid
Nathan Evans
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Austin Myers
congrats your camo is gone and you are now a shining beacon, giving up your position, to attract conventional attacks
Jaxon Harris
America #1 faggot. We aren't helping you cheap faggots anymore.
Grayson Cooper
failbaddon desu
tfw too poor for a Nyx
Julian Collins
did you figure that out all by yourself?
Jayden Lopez
>so always be skeptical of anything involving lasers and aircraft. well to be fair we have mounted nuclear reactors to planes before.
Anthony Cooper
>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?
Kevin Sanders
so, redwolf is a thing now?
Blake Peterson
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
Benjamin Hall
FUCK YEAH
Lucas Hughes
Old meme
Luis Cruz
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
James Edwards
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.
Colton Clark
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.
Liam Reed
>>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.
Luis Jones
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.
Isaiah Williams
thanks
Tyler Brown
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.
William Sullivan
>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.
Isaac Scott
No, we did not.
Isaac Powell
>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
Jack Scott
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!
Henry Fisher
> 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.
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
Owen Scott
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.
Dylan Harris
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.
Isaiah Watson
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.
Jonathan Bennett
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
Chase Ortiz
>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
Asher Rivera
>Both World Wars have us on the top This is bait right?
Thomas Evans
Yeah. They can fire nonferrous metals if they case them.