In recent navy trials, the ONR (office of naval research) successfully completed a field trial of a 15kw ship mounted laser. The HEL was mounted on and solely powered by the USS Paul Foster and was able to fire a pulse laser beam thru 4foot waves and high humidity directly into the target boats engine housing, completely crippling the boat. This HEL is quite a bit smaller that the super PEW we covered previously, and even their goal for this particular style is only 1/5 of the super PEW. The Navy isn’t giving up on the big guns tho, as they are planning to roll out a prototype for a megawatt laser in 2018. This Huge laser, which I like to call Zeus’ Wrath, will be able to cut thru 2,000 feet of steel per second, thats 100 times more powerful than our last super PEW. So naturally I now have an erection that only lasers can satisfy, so Im off to build one now.

[PCmag]

12 Apr This entry was written by CatastroFUCK and published on April 12, 2011 at 10:00 AM. It’s filed under Awesome, Tech and tagged America-Fuck Yeah!, i want one in my backyard, more power!!!!, Navy, no splodey?, pew pew pew, search and destroy, security upgrade. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.