From: Chad Irby
Date: 1/2/2004 5:16 PM Central Standard Time
Message-id: m

In article ,
(B2431) wrote:

From: "Bjørnar Bolsøy" am

With weight ever decreasing, does anyone know if there has been/is
a project on something like this:

http://members.rogers.com/biglasers/continuous/abl.html

Not likely. The ABL is designed to be fired in the clear air at altitude. A
ship borne version would face problems with smoke, fog and sea spray
interferance.

For larger ships, spray would be somewhat less of a problem, and could
be avoided as an issue with fast-operating covers for the systems. With
a good choice of wavelengths, smoke and fog aren't that much of a
problem, especially at fairly short ranges.

It's just going to be a while. Heck, they're talking about laser
weapons for *tanks*, which tend to live in much worse conditions almost
all of the time.

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Back in 1971 or 1972 Popular Mechanics(?) showed a picture of a laser tank. g

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired