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Post by treptoplax on Sept 21, 2017 14:46:05 GMT
60Kw laser news articleTruck mounted 60Kw output laser, over 40% efficiency demoed. Interestingly the laser medium is fiber optics, which is very convenient for both compactness and cooling. This is a somewhat old story (from March), I just ran across because they just released new video of the 30Kw version shooting down drones: 30Kw laser shoots down drones (Youtube)
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Post by matterbeam on Sept 21, 2017 20:24:50 GMT
60Kw laser news articleTruck mounted 60Kw output laser, over 40% efficiency demoed. Interestingly the laser medium is fiber optics, which is very convenient for both compactness and cooling. This is a somewhat old story (from March), I just ran across because they just released new video of the 30Kw version shooting down drones: 30Kw laser shoots down drones (Youtube) Excellent news. There are massive side-benefits to the military developing and acquiring 40% efficiency lasers. They would make microchip manufacturing cheaper, self-driving cars more accurate and give more incentives to power beaming and laser-launch research.
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