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    Does anyone really think this is only 30kW?
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-1...sian-gulf.html

    IPG Photonics has had a 100kW unit in the field for a year and this has to be cost competitive in an industrial environment.

    http://www.laserfocusworld.com/artic...-industry.html

    It is interesting that they are telling everyone that they can dazzle (warn you) or burn you with the undoubtedly IR main beam.

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    Quote Originally Posted by planters View Post
    Does anyone really think this is only 30kW?
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-1...sian-gulf.html

    IPG Photonics has had a 100kW unit in the field for a year and this has to be cost competitive in an industrial environment.

    http://www.laserfocusworld.com/artic...-industry.html

    It is interesting that they are telling everyone that they can dazzle (warn you) or burn you with the undoubtedly IR main beam.
    CONS: POTENTIAL DAMAGE TO NEARBY AIRCRAFT OR SATELLITES

    This thing can take out a satellite? <spock eyebrow>
    suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.

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    Since when did anybody ever publish actual power or kinetic force for any weapons system newer then 20 years old?


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    From the industrial laser description;

    The laser’s output is directed into a 10-m-long, 300-μm-diameter feeding fiber; this output in turn can be coupled into a 50-m-long, 500-μm-diameter process fiber for remote delivery of the laser’s output. With an optical output of 101.3 kW at the output end of the process fiber and a 286 kW electrical power consumption, the complete system has a high wall-plug efficiency of 35.4%
    DAMN! Planters you should get one and freq double it!!!

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    Don't tempt me. This kind of power could set a new standard for rave laser projectors. But, then here we go again..."Now I don't have a good red balance".

    This thing can take out a satellite? <spock eyebrow>
    I suspect it could. With real powers in the 100-200kW range and a good size projection telescope in the 1M range, a 976nm beam shot vertically above a cold ocean surface (low turbulence) a satellite could probably be blinded.

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    yes you do. 671nm. 547nm 532nm 568nm too!

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