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Old April 11th, 2004, 07:59 PM
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Default 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.
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