Re: Russia new wonder weapon?
 

Lol *looks at mobile phone...*

*promptly runs outside, calls someone and starts wavings his hands about to see if it is true!*

I'll update you on my progress once i'm extra crispy!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: Russia new wonder weapon?
 

Hmm. I think that orbital anti-personnel laser was from the movie Real Genius, which I did rather enjoy. While something like that might be possible, lasers lose focus over range and dissipate GREATLY in atmosphere, it just would not be practical.

We do have air-to-air and air-to-ground and ground-to-air lasers, I would expect to see them get more powerfull and more wide-spread once the politics arround them die down. ground-to-ground lasers dont seem to be practical yet, but maybe in 20 years we will start to prototype them.

Re: Russia new wonder weapon?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">"Look who's been left in the oven too long." (The Violator talking to Spawn)

Re: Russia new wonder weapon?
 

Why the hell would you like to create a laser in the atmosphere?! Lasers are distorted far too much to be of serious use in our atmosphere. Or you need a very big source of energy or you need some miracle design. But then again wonder happen every day.

Re: Russia new wonder weapon?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I'm pretty sure there were worries about this being implemented lol. Paranoid People http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

But is till dread to think what other weapons our governements are cooking up *who's paranoid now? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif *

On good news i'm still alive and not crispy!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: Russia new wonder weapon?
 

Saw this article linked to on slashdot:
Popular Science

Fear the Tungsten Rod!

Re: Russia new wonder weapon?
 

From the article posted by spoon:
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">What a prick! "The good old days" of world war two! Does he even know what a world war is? But then, as an associate analyst at GlobalSecurity.org (with the emphasis on the first three letters) he probably makes a lot of money out of wholescale death and destruction. Anyone who thinks war is such a jolly old romp should be dumped straight on the front lines of the next grisly conflict our illustrious leaders choose to inflict upon the world.

But otherwise, a very interesting article. Scary as hell, but interesting.