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Boeing fires tactical laser from aircraft
Hit and missile
Thu May 22 2008, 09:25
BOEING has strapped a huge high-energy chemical laser onto one of its C-130H aircraft and fired it, without melting most of Kansas.
The test firing was a milestone for the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration programme.
The laser will fire at ground targets and limit the problems of stray bombs falling on civilians. Of course if the laser is fired at the wrong target it will still burn babies but it will do it more precisely.
The test team will fire the laser through a rotating turret underneath the plane. Later this year it will attempt to fire the laser in-flight at ground targets. ยต
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I want them to target the solar hot water and photovoltaic arrays on my house. 

A few seconds of beam should wind my electric meter back far enought that the elctric company will owe me about a million dollars, and give me enough hot water to power my radiant floor heat for close to a thousand years.
If they fired it at a ripe maize field, woudl it make a lot of popcorn?
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After conducting a series of additional laser tests on the ground and in the air, the program will fire the chemical laser in-flight at mission-representative ground targets.
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Like popcorn? Please say they used popcorn.
Ion cannon ready!
"Of course if the laser is fired at the wrong target it will still burn babies but it will do it more precisely."

Yummy, baby back ribs kansas style.
I like this idea. :D
The force is strong on this one. We all know its gonna go in sattelite, and you can fire it using goggle earth.

Actually, its been in design for over thirty years (well before "star wars"). The first time I saw a megawatt plus chemical LASER was in a 1972 Popular Science article.
EveryWhere Girl Starts at UC Berkly With such popular IT work here idea. Tie up Charlie & haul to Target Area for Testing Purposes.(Implicit consent theu St.anly experiment. No Reflective Sunglasses! Everywhere Girl Seeks Companion. as figured out aging occurs.Fried Charlie could be enough?

I am amazed how imaginary weapon can excite people to such high level of thought. Mirrors? Space Shutle Tiles. Perfect. Lucky revolving turret has already been invented, for that full flavored smoke.
drashek
SLI: Maybe we can get Val Kilmer to fly the plane that shoots the laser that pops the pocorn in the house. No other real genius would work...

rv: I can see the enemy planes using Disco Balls as a countermeasure to the Laser Balls in front of our planes... when we fight in space, we'll fight with Space Balls!
C-130 is a four engine turboprop cargo plane.... The program has a lot of size reduction still to go
Yup, it's all going to be very blingy and sparkly.
The C-130 is actually a Lockheed Martin jet. 

Not that it matters, really...
Sorry to burst your bubble, but this thing has been in development for damn near 20 years now. It's origins come from the US "Star Wars" program initiated by the Reagan administration.

This won't be the first time it's been fired either. I actually saw a bit on info on this whole project in some a Discovery Channel special about 2 years ago.

Still a cool concept and device. I wonder if you could fire it from the air at one of those foil, stove top, popcorn thingys and have it work?
A good lawyer and the right Judge(s) could probably have this thing ruled in breach of Protocol 4 of the Geneva convention.

In response to camoflage, a more effective defence would be to cover the vehicle in the Heat shield tiles from the shuttle.
Dont you mean frinkin' ?

:)
...What I want to see is this device used to pop mass quantities of popcorn in a house.
So does that mean the new look for military camoflage this season will be;
mirrors?