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Reusable Laser Launcher
Here we see why Fred lies so much. He looks at thing, and clearly, being of substandard intelligence, he is confused and it looks complicated and dangerous to HIM. lol. So, he concludes, "it is not a simple exercise" and vents his general hatred onto anyone who tries to tell him he's a freaking idiot.
On Monday, May 22, 2017 at 6:19:22 AM UTC+12, Fred J. McCall wrote: "Robert Clark" wrote: "Fred J. McCall" wrote in message .. . ================================================= ========== ... So let's count up the ships with sufficient spare electrical capacity to start sticking weapon grade lasers on them. We have ONE ZUMWALT class (and one more building, which is the end of the class). We have NO FORD class carriers yet. One is undergoing trials, one is under contruction, and another is planned for delivery out in the 2020's. So by the mid-2020's we'll have a whopping FIVE ships with sufficient spare electrical power to load a bunch of combat lasers on them. For everyone else, you're going to have to turn off half a megawatt worth of existing systems to get the power to run a laser. ... ================================================= ========== This article discusses the problem of the power level requirements: US Navy will fire 150 kilowatt laser on a test ship in 2018 and then from carriers and destroyers in 2019. brian wang | January 26, 2017 | http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/01...-laser-on.html It may very well be that only the very largest ships will be able to field the high power 150 kW lasers. Still, I wonder if you can instead just combine three of the truck-carried 60 kW laser systems the Army wants to field: That's essentially what's being done. They're combining two 75 kW units that are technically very similar to the Army units. Combining them is not a simple exercise, though, so you can't just stick several of them on a ship and magically 'combine' them. And you still have to power them. US Army gets world record-setting 60-kW laser. By: Jen Judson, March 16, 2017 (Photo Credit: Courtesy of Lockheed Martin) http://www.defensenews.com/articles/...ing-60kw-laser Note that they don't say how they're powering it or how many shots it's good for before you need to 'recharge'. Given the cited power levels and efficiency, you'd need around 150 kW to run it. You can get that out of a dedicated generator, which will weigh around 4 tonnes plus fuel (which may explain why it's installed on a HEMTT and not some other vehicle). -- "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw |
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