A laser weapons scientist said the device was able to "burn through clothes in a split second… if the fabric is flammable, the South China Morning Post reported. The weapon weighs three kilos - about the same as an AK - has a range of almost 1, yards and can be mounted on vehicles. It sounds like something that shoots out the Death Star, but laser weapons are used by the military, with Moscow first trying to develop one in the s.
Deputy Defence Minister Yuri Borisov confirmed the revolutionary A plane was being developed back in A hi-tech laser beam was apparently being fitted to the Cold War-era jet in top-secret tests carried out by Russian scientists.
The US Army is planning to deploy the first laser weapons in and its Air Force is already trying out prototype weapons.
The Air Force Research Laboratory is also working on a defensive laser shield, with a degree laser 'bubble' surrounding a US warplane. Super-sonic new laser weapons could also be tested on supersonic US Air Force jets within the next two years. Hi-tech fighter aircraft will be equipped with a laser beam system which tracks and destroys targets. An anti-personnel laser weapon would most likely work through generating intense heat.
The immediate benefit of a laser over a conventional bullet is the speed. A rifle bullet travels at 1, metres per second where a laser moves at the speed of light, , miles per second. However, a laser like this would require massive amounts of power to pack the same amount of kinetic power as a bullet, roughly 30, watts. This makes incorporating a battery of sufficient size to generate this amount of power into the body of the weapon an almost impossible task with current technology.
But also there are laws prohibiting the use of lasers to blind enemy combatants. Directly exposing an eye to a laser for even a short space of time can cause permanent damage to vision, or even blindness.
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