kjeff50cal
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Pilot said:Yeah, we are being "prepared". For another season of Star Trek re-runs.
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kjeff50cal
Pilot said:Yeah, we are being "prepared". For another season of Star Trek re-runs.
*ahem* is it on? oh!Beason said he has a blue-sky idea of his own, which he tags "the voice from heaven." By tuning the resonance of a laser onto Earth’s ionosphere, you can create audible frequencies. Like some boom box in the sky, the laser-produced voice could bellow from above down to the target below: "Put down your weapons."
middy said:*ahem* is it on? oh!
Put down your weapons! This is Allah!
*snicker* *giggle* shut up! *ahem*
Like I said, this is Allah. Put down your weapons. Americans are your friends.
That's right, now put up your hands and walk slowly toward the American soldiers. We -uh- They're nice guys, really.
Well done my sons. I am proud of you.
Oh, by the way, pork, shellfish, and booze are now officially OK.
*bwahahaha* shut up! *heeheeheehee*
benEzra said:One interesting thought...in one of the more recently written Bolo books, it was stated (in fictional retrospect) that the development of high-power directed energy weapons (the fictional Hellbores) made the tactic of vertical envelopment obsolete, since no aircraft or helicopter could carry enough armor to stand up to a Hellbore, and since it was a speed-of-light weapon, no aircraft could avoid being hit. Hence, the only way to dominate the battlefield in a high-energy beam weapon environment was to field heavily armored ground based mobile systems--giant tanks, the Bolos--with enough armor to stand up to the energy weapons while carrying enough offensive firepower themselves to defeat opposing systems. Once such a tank was on the ground, even orbiting spacecraft were vulnerable as soon as they cleared the tank's horizon.
We're not all that far from that scenario. If beam weapons powerful enough to shoot down aircraft and missiles become a reality, and they are small enough to be mobile, then the tank may again become king of the battlefield. A 5-megawatt laser will quickly take out an aircraft, but it's not going to do much to a 50-ton MBT, as long as fuel and ammo aren't stored externally and sensors are retractable. And if that 50-ton (or 100-ton, or 200-ton) tank carries a couple of 20-megawatt beam weapons, close-in defenses, and antipersonnel weapons, there's not much that could threaten it. (Except maybe another tank.)
Will Change the Way Wars Will Be Fought in the Future
The_Antibubba said:Don't underestimate the power of politics on new weapons systems. Do you really think we'll get battlefield laser rifles if they aren't built by Colt and don't need a forward assist?
Track down a copy (it's on Amazon for about $8 and up) of:redneck2 said:Anybody up on HAARP?
I no techno-geek but it seems like some version of that could be used as a weapon