Would IRL man-portable laser weapons development benefit from someone discovering a means to reduce the blinding capacity of a laser while retaining it's heat generation over the same distance?
My understanding is while we have the means, anti-personnel lasers are not practical because of the chance you will burn everybody's eyes out.
how about you put that in english for the rest of us, professor?
>>29772184
Triggered
>>29772184
You really can't be this dumb.
>>29772150
No, not until we have developed better power storage capabilities it doesn't matter.
>>29772184
he's saying the main reason laser guns aren't used by the military is because they are too bright to use against people. That is against Geneva convention or some shit.
So if they weren't as bright, you could use them to kill people without risking injuring them.
>So you want a laser portable weapon powerful enough to destroy armored vehicles
>Yet still be able to shine it in someones eye without blinding them
>>29772245
no, the idea is that it would need to be a lethal weapon, not one that could just maim.
>>29772150
We don't use laser weapons because they have rather short range for the power needed to generate a harmful beam, because they become worse than useless when dust and whatnot is in the air (read: during combat), and most importantly: they require a shitload of energy to be usefull in any capacity. Seriously. Literal tons of generators and capacitors to burn through any metal at all, and even then they can be relatively easily defeated by carbon-ceramic plates. They really just aren't as good as guns.
>>29772150
TETSUOOO!
>>29772150
The only reason we don't have all kinds of crazy ass space weapons everywhere is having a power source.
How do you have a power source? Well right now the most realistic we know of is capacitors. Capacitors are limited by, among other things, the surface area. How do you increase the surface area? Well, one way would be to use nanotubes:
http://web.mit.edu/erc/spotlights/ultracapacitor.html
Once a technology is in place for the power, you will see handheld laser assault rifles and maybe even light sabers which I believe are possible by adding out of phase sine waves together.
>>29772233
This.
We can mass producer dazzler weapons.
You don't need a laser capable of burning the fuck out of someone to incapacitate someone.
A blind solider is a causality.
But some fuck a long time ago said that blinding people was "immoral".
So we can't have dazzler weapons.
It'd be real easy too.
Set up a portable station that recognizes eyes and shoots moderately powerful lasers into their retinas. Blinded. Done fighting.
But noooo. It's "inhumane" or something
>>29773998
It's not about capacitors.
They work just fine.
The issue is their supply.
Our batteries are fuck awful.
We're still using the same tech since the 70s.
Storing electrical energy is hard.
Once we get room temperature super conductors. Get ready for lasers and shit erry where
>>29774038
Samuel Colt didn't create mankind so we can shoot faggot lasers into peoples eyes, he gave us bullets to do that with and by Colt we're going to use bullets to do our killing, like men!
>>29772776
oh
Well then batteries and power generation is the only concern
To be honest almost all theoretical technology concerns are batteries and power generation
>>29774070
Listen here stupid breath, the capacitor IS the battery. mmmkay?
>>29773309
KANEDAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>29772150
>kaneda.jpg
>not kanedaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.jpg
>>29774613
Always wondered why he felt the need to announce ALL of his attacks by atleast a full 2 seconds by screaming his target's name.
>>29774038
Seems kinda dumb because after a very small while, some kind of super duper combat oakleys would be developed to stop the blinding I'd imagine. But still imagine using that against civilians, sounds pretty shitty to me.
>>29774819
Yeah maybe, but that's a thing they need to adapt to.
Modern warfare is against peasants.
Anything we can do to make them pay more is worth it
