12 Oct 2006
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With tactical laser cannons, can photon torpedos be far behind?
Northrop Grumman are working on strategic lasers. Will the test bed be the Enterprise?
Update: I thought I had read an article about a tactical laser before, but I couldn’t recall where. Saywhatnow pointed it out to me: a DefenseTech article about ZEUS.
ZEUS does sound similar to THOR, but is not made by an Israeli company, so I guess they are competitors. It seems THOR’s claim of being the first such system in use is probably an exaggeration.
—posted by Nicholas.
October 12th, 2006 at 8:07 pm
The system is called Thor. It is an evolution of Zeus?
October 12th, 2006 at 8:35 pm
Hmm, they seem more like competition, they seem to be made by different companies. I thought I’d seen the ZEUS article before, and it conflicts with the claim that THOR is the first such system in the world, doesn’t it. I guess I should be more suspicious of such claims.
October 12th, 2006 at 9:47 pm
Now if they can mount one on the head of a frickin’ shark, we’d be set! Throw me a bone here, people!
October 12th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
KTLA: Arming sharks with frickin’ lasers would be the biggest DoD contract ever…at least a millllllllion dollars!
October 12th, 2006 at 11:38 pm
And yet they can’t figure out how to get water to their troops 50 klicks from the fricken border?
October 13th, 2006 at 3:16 am
I’m sure they can figure out how to do that, but it involves hurting some terrorists’ feelings so it’s forbidden.