US jets to have 'Star Wars' blasters
US jets to have 'Star Wars' blasters | The Other Side | Breaking News 24/7 - NEWS.com.au (25-08-2005)
Now all they need is a good R2-D2 and they are all set.
Now all they need is a good R2-D2 and they are all set.
posted by Deep Hal at 5:36:00 AM
2 Comments:
Very cool. (No pun intended). If it has the capability to destroy an enemy missle, I wonder why it could not be used against other aircraft. Perhaps the energy of the laser is not to actually destroy the missle, but to mess up its sensors.
I think with the missles, you have to keep the laser trained on the missle for a certain period of time. It isn't just a quick millisecond laser blast, and then *BOOM*. It might even be a few seconds.
The difference as I see it, is that the aircraft would be constantly making evasive maneuvers, and you couldn't say, train the laser beam on any given spot, to blow up it's fuel tanks.
The nastiest thing, would be trying to blind the pilot with the beam, but I believe that is against the Geneva Convention. Also some jet pilots (I think) have that nuclear-flash glass that flips down over their visors. It reacts in milliseconds and darkens to prevent blindness from a sudden nuclear bomb flash. I believe it is the same stuff that has made it's way into those welder's masks which no longer have a filter that flips down. They darken instantaneously in response to the welding arc. It's possible that glass might block the laser's light frequencies.
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