OT, but fun: Re: Homing In on Laser Weapons (was Re: US developing untraceable weapons)

2002-11-01 Thread Mike Rosing
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Steve Schear wrote: Information about the damage such lasers could inflict is classified. But in general, experts say, a 25-kilowatt laser could blind an enemy sensor several hundred miles away. It also could put a hole through a sheet of metal from a distance of several

Re: US developing untraceable weapons

2002-10-13 Thread Tyler Durden
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: US developing untraceable weapons Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 17:28:03 -0700 At 12:10 PM 10/11/2002 -0700, Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Theres no huge explosion associated with its employment, there are no pieces and parts left behind that someone can

Re: US developing untraceable weapons

2002-10-13 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:17 PM 10/12/2002 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: Well, there was also some other details left out by that article. A 100kW beam doesn't tell you very much if you don't know the beam diameter. It tells you the output power, from which one may estimate input power requirements. A 1310nm

Re: US developing untraceable weapons

2002-10-13 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:10 PM 10/11/2002 -0700, Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Theres no huge explosion associated with its employment, there are no pieces and parts left behind that someone can analyze to say, this came from the United States, explains an unnamed Lockheed Martin official quoted in