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If they can put that on an airplane. just think what they could do with a ground based platform! Seriously though, it would be good to have one of those around N. Korea! Just in case...

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Well, that would be a problem for the shooter only if you were trying to hit it from its rear quarter...

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Not if you re-route the exhaust fumes through the nose cones. Complex internals I'll grant you, but thing of the benefits!

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At the velocities we're talking, the steam/exhaust would be behind you almost before it was released from the front, thereby offering no noticeable benefit.

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There would be a constant stream of material coming out so at any one moment some more would be being pushed out.

However for a head to head contact you are correct, but for side on and rear attacks it would provide at least the possibility of benefit.

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A side attacks are what those lasers are also designed for if it's similar (if not scaled down) compared to the big *** ones they put on Jumbo Jets as prototypes heh and no clouds never seemed to bother them much aparently.


I can see it now N. Korea Kim Jonwhatever
"Hahahaha die american pig dogs" launches butt load of missiles

Missiles all break apart as a fighter wing passes by, then said fighter wing launches own missiles in return.

"uh damn it" loud explosions in return

heheheh


NOW question is who did we really get the lasers from you know what i mean eh eh (nudge) *nudge* http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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I think they use a wavelenght that isn't affected by clouds or smoke. Don't know how they do it though.

Isn't a missiles exhaust what produces its thrust? They wouldn't react well with their their thrust acting in front of their center of mass, I would imagine.

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Lasers, uhh Bell Labs wasn't it?

Unless it's the DVD blue laser, that was random dudes at Oxford Scientific. Well sort of. Yes it was a blue laser, but not made the way everyone now makes them today.

Honestly that modified jumbo has been being fiddled with for so long I think it's possible the nukes will have decayed before it's declared finished and operational. Bear in mind for every test where something works, something else goes wrong with it. Still as a low priority research job what can you expect?

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Well, a year ago they were working on this
http://weekendpundit.blogmosis.com/l...nd/025046.html
at 3.8 microns I believe that put it in the infrared part of the spectrum. I don't know if they are using anything similar to this or not.

No date on this one
http://www.smdc.army.mil/FactSheets/HELSTF.pdf

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If they put shiny mirrored surfaces on the missile, the lasers would reflect off.