DARPA's mini laser canon

[No.1]

Laser weapons need to be as small as possible for aircraft. Toward that end, progress is being made by DARPA on its prototype Excalibur weapon (shown). Much smaller and 10x lighter than current high-output chemical lasers, this design combines multiple arrays of lasers into one much more powerful beam. Plans call for a 3 kW prototype by year-end, to ultimately be scaled up to 100 kW.



Source:

http://dvice.com/archives/2011/09/darpas-mini-las.php

[Nico Braas]

Seems Star Wars is coming!!!

[No.1]

Ha ha... until other side does not invent something other

[Nico Braas]

Well, answer is very simple: bounce back laser beam with a mirror!

[No.1]

Ha ha- simply and effective

[Jukka Juutinen]

I wonder if it uses an eye-safe laser...?

[No.1]

Hardly, even the range finder lasers are danger for eye.

[Jukka Juutinen]

True, but I believe most modern rangefinders do employ eye-safe lasers. I don't usually criticise any weapons for being weapons, but I read a few years ago that a Chinese manufacturer openly exhibited a laser weapon solely intented to blind enemy observers etc. at an arms expo. Personally I consider that a most cruel weapon!

[No.1]

True, it was tested as I know on rabbits and it is danger But hardly that any valuable weapon based on this technology would be available soon.