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Post by King of the Wastes on Mar 11, 2011 2:06:48 GMT -5
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Post by vault72 on Mar 11, 2011 5:49:09 GMT -5
Awesome!
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Post by poohan on Mar 11, 2011 23:45:08 GMT -5
not much stopping power and not very threatening because it looks like a toy but holy shit i want one. just think of how powerful they will be in the future.
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Post by King of the Wastes on Mar 12, 2011 15:14:16 GMT -5
Wait till the government finally figure out how to get this stuff to work, wonder how long people start using these things for hunting.
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Post by vault72 on Mar 12, 2011 15:18:13 GMT -5
Probably not in my lifetime, maybe yours though  |
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Post by King of the Wastes on Mar 12, 2011 15:44:38 GMT -5
Dont doubt the progress of technology. We went from first flight to space flight in less than 60 years. Look at computers, each year they get more and more efficient and their memory larger and larger. In my own 19 years I went from the gameboy gray brick to the DS(I want the new one) with its color screen and smaller lighter self. We already have used laser's to blast things out of the sky, out main constraints are power, and I think that won't be a use all that much longer really. Humanity loves to out do itself with each year.
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Post by imperator03 on Mar 14, 2011 14:30:44 GMT -5
Dont doubt the progress of technology. We went from first flight to space flight in less than 60 years. Look at computers, each year they get more and more efficient and their memory larger and larger. In my own 19 years I went from the gameboy gray brick to the DS(I want the new one) with its color screen and smaller lighter self. We already have used laser's to blast things out of the sky, out main constraints are power, and I think that won't be a use all that much longer really. Humanity loves to out do itself with each year. Good eye, the pace of technological breakthroughs are accelerating. Read up on Ray Kurzweil, he's a bit of a hippy, but some of his ideas have merit; although I'm not too sure about his ideas on the Singularity. The big problem with this weapon is probably reload time. If it takes several hours to recharge, will that's not much help when the enemy are about to overrun your position. And it's a handgun. To have a really effective battlefield weapon it would have to be a machine gun or assault rifle. Although it could see specialized use as a sniper rifle, then you'd not have to worry about bullet drop or (possibly) wind strength and direction. |
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Post by vault72 on Mar 14, 2011 17:29:55 GMT -5
True but the problem lies in a demand for the technology and it's potential for generating money as a commercial item. They could just create small batteries to quickly swap out like standard weapon magazines. The problem being public demand, if there suddenly was a demand for this a commercial entity may research it further but the gun market is small and potentially shrinking as new legislation is written. As a laser weapon not much would interfer with it's trajectory but it appears to actually create a plasma ball in which case it would be affected by wind and plasma doesn't travel over any great distances as the video showed. This device may just remain in the category of a novelty item or become a part of something more commercially viable or industrial but i don't see it becoming the next gen weapon for quite some time it ever(as a plasma weapon).
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Post by imperator03 on Mar 14, 2011 18:54:21 GMT -5
True but the problem lies in a demand for the technology and it's potential for generating money as a commercial item. They could just create small batteries to quickly swap out like standard weapon magazines. The problem being public demand, if there suddenly was a demand for this a commercial entity may research it further but the gun market is small and potentially shrinking as new legislation is written. As a laser weapon not much would interfer with it's trajectory but it appears to actually create a plasma ball in which case it would be affected by wind and plasma doesn't travel over any great distances as the video showed. This device may just remain in the category of a novelty item or become a part of something more commercially viable or industrial but i don't see it becoming the next gen weapon for quite some time it ever(as a plasma weapon). Plasma, now that's a different beast altogether. One of the things about plasma is you have to worry about superheated air. You don't have to actually it something, you just have to hear near it. Well at least with people. Plasma also tends to stick and burn targets. Could be bad business when you hit, say, an Abrams tank with it. I wonder what the energy budget is on one of those things and is is scaleable? If you're looking for next gen weaponry, I'd look more towards miniaturizing rail guns or some other type of projectile weapon, not energy weapons. |
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Post by King of the Wastes on Mar 14, 2011 20:18:16 GMT -5
Gauss rifles would be pretty damn cool, but can they fire tracking purple crystal shards that blow up? I say we invest in needler tech from Halo.
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Post by poohan on Mar 15, 2011 1:40:35 GMT -5
iv always been a fan of railgun assault rifles and plasma cannons.
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Post by vault72 on Mar 15, 2011 2:07:27 GMT -5
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Post by imperator03 on Mar 15, 2011 14:40:39 GMT -5
The cool thing about that is that it's estimated you can fit the power of a WW II battleship on something the size of a contemporary destroyer. Which should save tons on manpower and supplies. I don't even think the warheads have to be explosive, I think they just use kinetic energy for destructive power. The real test will be miniaturizing the thing to fit in the hands of a soldier. My guess is that it will take nanotech and some pretty strange materials science to get the job done, not to mention some pretty funky energy systems as well. |
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Post by King of the Wastes on Mar 15, 2011 16:56:03 GMT -5
I think in 50 years or less we will have more than just projectile based weapons on the battlefield. Though this is my opinion.
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