The US Navy's Anti-Pirate Lasers

[Chakra-X]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110413/ap_on_re_af/af_piracy_navy_laser

America fighting pirates with ship-mounted lasers? ******* awesome.

Unless they have a mass effect barrier.

 

[Zeonix]

Oh good. The Navy has yet another weapon. I guess I'll keep standing by for a SAW who's bolt doesn't self-destruct every time I fire it.

 

[Darth Revan]

wahooo Phasers xD

 

[Z Power]

You guys realize that its a Light Saber in the making, right?

 

[Darth Revan]

Light SaberS and Phasers

 

[Z Power]

Light SaberS and Phasers

And Proton Cannons.

 

[Rocky]

I'd happily pay my taxes if I knew it was going towards badass **** like this!

 

[DiebytheSword]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110413/ap_on_re_af/af_piracy_navy_laser

America fighting pirates with ship-mounted lasers? ******* awesome.

Unless they have a mass effect barrier.

A ME barrier doesn't work on Lasers, just sayin'.

 

[Avenger]

You'd just need a sufficiently powerful electromagnetic field, and there's really very few things you can't do.

 

[DJ-Ready]

you know, there are materials already in existence that can cloak you (at least certain wavelengths of light) ... lasers would pass right through the pirates
yarrrrrr

 

[Specht]

[video=youtube;Z12GYoYnktI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z12GYoYnktI[/video] <= I guess this video would be related to the news.

 

[Chakra-X]

A ME barrier doesn't work on Lasers, just sayin'.

Goddamit, Sheppard

 

[Prozac]

I'd so take a laser that takes a minute to destroy one of the two engines, over a single rocket that could only take out the whole boat in a flash. Saves on court costs too.
Potential wise, this is good stuff though!

 

[Sicron]

You'd take a laser over anything. Simply for the fact that...it's a laser.


Are sharks included?

 

[The Deco]

"You know, I have one simple request, and that is to have sharks with fricking lazer beams attached to their heads"
[video=youtube;Bh7bYNAHXxw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh7bYNAHXxw[/video]

 

[Avenger]

you know, there are materials already in existence that can cloak you (at least certain wavelengths of light) ... lasers would pass right through the pirates
yarrrrrr

Pass around the pirates.

 

[Zeonix]

And right after the laser travels around the boat, it'd get hit with everything else, including suicide seal and dolphin bombers.

 

[Z Power]

And right after the laser travels around the boat, it'd get hit with everything else, including suicide seal and dolphin bombers.

And Whale Torpedoes.

 

[Chakra-X]

I'd so take a laser that takes a minute to destroy one of the two engines, over a single rocket that could only take out the whole boat in a flash. Saves on court costs too.
Potential wise, this is good stuff though!

Except this mother****er can do it from miles away with greater accuracy.

 

[Specht]

Actually, I think the whole purpose of the laser is for tactical use, they just want to disable their ships, not kill them and rape their corpses.... or... nevermind.