U.S. Warship deploys weapon guaranteed to quell the Irish.

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1. What did the Irish ever do to you?
2. They say the same thing about everything and in the end some dude with a pack of c4 stuffed up his ass causes more damage than the fucking "weapon x" prevents, not to mention what it cost in the first place to build.

Lasers are fucking shit.

Know what the world needs? A fucking railgun. One you can point at a mountain, push the big red button, and annihilate said fucking mountain.

Hey I'll do you one cheaper, make a satellite that drops rods from orbit. All the damage of a nuke without the goddamn fallout.

I have never known why, but I love the idea of railguns.

wonder how long before somebody gets the idea to launch disco balls at ships that reflect all the lasers at near by populations causing mass permanent blindness and burns

also rail guns are well on the way, tiny ones more powerful than the 18inch yamato guns and with a fuck load longer range

Hurling a lump of iron through the air and just obliterating a target by sheer force of the projectile is fucking amazing tech. If your dick isn't hard at the possibilities, you may as well shoot it off.

It will be the "Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Stayin' Alive, Stayin' Alive" defense.


OK, well that certainly sounded a lot funnier in my head.

They will be more useful when problems with atmospherics are better addressed or power/heat constraints are overcome.
Railguns have serious problems with maintenance after a few shots currently and as for space weapons, they aren't permitted under the Outer Space Treaty as WMDs in the way you described, which would absolutely work. It would also cause a new arms race and maybe a war or three. Lasers in space are more practical but they still have focusing and heat/power issues to work out.

Sorry, but that's retarded.

Gauss rifles FTW

We'll adreess the magnetic saturation and hysteresis loops problems in due time...no, really...

if a 100 dollar laser that can fit in my pocket can burn shit, pop kids balloons and cause permanent blindness at >100 yards i'm pretty sure a 100k laser mounted on a tank or a 1mil laser mounted on a ship can do plenty. I wouldn't be surprised if they get multi purposed as well to function as long range LADAR and heat tag tracking that just has to be focused to do damage. Considering they also don't require adjusted computational tracking and recoil compensation that current CIWS does i'm pretty sure lasers will do more than fine as they are.

ESPECIALLY considering we now have diode lasers that can cut mild steels

yeah sound based humor has a hard time translating

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Disco Fever.

It's feasible, however.

Simplicity is the best weapon.

Wasting a huge amount of energy to put something in orbit to then drop it for the significantly less energy that the fall produces, is not simple, is just retarded.

Like growing human beings to milk them of their electrical nervous activity. That magnitude of retard.



That only would make sense if you catch something that already is up there the gravity well and then drop it to the surface...like chunks of rock from the asteroid belt, for example.



Not the most novel idea, anyways....

the best weapon to use against the Irish is potatoes.

This is an improvement that will change everything in five years.

Time to fry up some durka durka.

Years down the line, we'll see this tech spread, mounting on patrol boats, Humvees, using them as turrets.

Yeah whatever, Gundumb-ass Wing. That's why the Navy hasn't given you a weapons contract, nor have you any ability to generate a fucking sunbeam at a ICBM. Hang your head in shame.

Yes, I agree. Gundam Wing was pretty fucking dumb. That's what happens when you try too hard to be original.

I don't have Navy contracts because it's not my field. You're still the tryhard we all know and go 'meh' about. Godspeed, faggot.

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