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For a reference point on how far this tech has come: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_laser_pistol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_laser_pistol
by megrimlock 11y ago
For a reference point on how far this tech has come:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_laser_pistol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_laser_pistol
- irl_zebra 11y agoI think this one would be an even better reference point to show the gulf of effectiveness between where we were and where we are now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NES_Zapper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NES_Zapper
- dm2 11y agoHere is one from a few years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personnel_halting_and_stimulation_response_rifle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personnel_halting_and_stimulati...
- stevenrace 11y agoWhile that was designed in 1984, the US DoD had successfully tested laser weapons over a decade earlier: 'The first was in 1973 when the USAF shot down a winged drone at their Sandia Optical Range, New Mexico, using a carbon dioxide GDL and a gimballed telescope. Subsequently, in 1976, the US Army employed an electrically pumped HEL to destroy a number of winged and helicopter drones at the Redstone Arsenal in Alabama. The USN, in March 1978, then engaged and destroyed an Army TOW missile in flight' [1] The first targets destroyed from an airborne platform (KC-135) were in 1979. [1] http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-DEW-HEL-Analysis.html http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-DEW-HEL-Analysis.html