Navy will deploy first ship with laser weapon this summer

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    [url=http://meincmagazine.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=26382899#p26382899:37cx5zh7 said:
    Dilbert[/url]":37cx5zh7]Cool. Makes sense to deploy directed energy weapons on ships first. They require a lot of power and ship's got that. Aircraft and vehicles do not.
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    It's an exact parallel, historically, to the development of cannons on ships during the age of sail. Archimede's principle means that even a small frigate could radically outgun mobile artillery, and even most fixed emplacements.
     
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