Real life ship mounted laser gun!

[Frankymole]

Ooh!

Laser gun: US Navy unveils new weapon with video showing speedboat explosion
The footage shows a test aircraft being taken out by the weapon

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...navy-unveils-new-weapon-in-video-9916776.html

The US Navy has announced that a new laser weapon it tested earlier this year was a success, and has released footage of the machine in action.

A video of the laser weapon system (Laws), released by the Office of Naval Research, shows the laser being deployed aboard USS Ponce in September in the Persian Gulf.

It shows the weapon being used against two test targets, including a speedboat which bursts into flames. Other targets were located at sea and in the air, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones.

 

[OjnoTheRed]

You beat me to it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0DbgNju2wE

Very impressive accuracy. In fact, freaky.

 

[Xerxeskingofking]

You beat me to it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0DbgNju2wE

Very impressive accuracy. In fact, freaky.

as one SF wargame ruleset put it, once lock has been achieved, a hit is pretty much guaranteed

and, assuming your calibrated your sighting system correctly, then yhea, it sould hit where the cross hairs are.

 

[Frankymole]

Perhaps wouldn't be so quite accurate over Traveller's multi-planetary diameter distances, at relativistic speeds and with space curvature effects, but still! It's a start. Are we TL8/9 for definite now?

 

[mike wightman]

Using CT definitions we are not even TL8 yet.

No air/rafts, no fusion power plants (let alone vehicle sized fusion power plants) and no man portable laser carbines.

TL 7.7 IMHO.