Fuck your bullets, ray guns are here!

[Mad_Aussie]

http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2010/06/03/1225874/905674-laws-raygun.jpg

http://www.news.com.au/technology/us-brings-drone-down-with-laws-raygun/story-e6frfro0-1225874886708


THE US Navy has a raygun - and it's a big one.

In a red-letter week for the US military, its Naval Sea Systems command "successfully tracked, engaged, and destroyed” several unmanned aircraft with its Laser Weapon System, otherwise known as LaWS.

....

According to The Register, "it represents the first Detect-Thru-Engage laser shoot-down of a threat representative target in an over-the-water, combat representative scenario".

LaWS is fitted to the Navy's "R2-D2" robotic gun turret and looks every bit like what you'd expect a raygun to look like.

In normal operations, R2-D2 would support the Navy's Phalanx 20mm cannon, which automatically locks onto incoming missiles and blasts them out of the sky.

Unfortunately for anyone in the impact zone, that ususally results in a shower of shrapnel or the 20mm shell itself if it fails to explode.

The LaWS system simply vapourises the target.

Naval spokesman Captain David Kiel said the success test "validates the military utility of (rayguns) in a maritime environment".

"Further development and integration of increasingly more powerful lasers into Surface Navy LaWS will increase both the engagement range and target sets that can be successfully engaged and destroyed," he said.

[DRKWRX]

They have been working on this shit for a while now is pretty awesome.

[mys1]

Until someone deflects the lazer back with a mirror and it blows up

[Alt_F4]

This image is relevant

http://a7.vox.com/6a00bf76d0a9b7438300e398a84d4f0002-500pi

[Tones]

"The LaWS system simply vapourises the target."

Fucks yo up big time then!!

[Tones]

This image is relevant

http://a7.vox.com/6a00bf76d0a9b7438300e398a84d4f0002-500pi

man i use to love that show

[JBAE]

DINORIDERSSSSS!!!! have the whole series somewhere ahha sooo goot!

[Jumanji]

man i use to love that show

:werd: was awesome !!!!! and this too !!!!

[Ryan1080]

So, for a while now they've been using R2-D2:

http://www.techgadgets.in/images/nikko-robot.jpg

now they got ray guns...

Looking forwad to this:

http://www.schwimmerlegal.com/stormtroopers.jpg

And this:

http://www.freewebs.com/cmarquezs_site2/600px-Xwing_RS3.jpg

:D

[HANS YOLO]

solid state or chemical laser?

a story from '07 on something similar...
http://www.strategypage.com/militaryforums/7-1486.aspx

[Mad_Aussie]

http://gallery.gandalf23.com/d/8441-1/6342554_500.jpg

[Phyber]

I had Dino Riders toys, awesome. *sniff* :')

Ray guns are also awesome. Reminds me of a doco where the military heat up a guy behind a matress and other objects. Some sort of crowd dispersion heat gun weapon.


ZAP ZAP POW!

[Slip_]

Dino Riders 4 lyfe. Still got mine.

Rays guns are nuts. Bout time we caught on... still waiting for all this mad tech to come up.

[KyeBidz]

http://gallery.gandalf23.com/d/8441-1/6342554_500.jpg

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[Alt_F4]

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[dmwill]

Meh, you can make your own using a Star Trek toy gun and a laser from a blue ray player. Capable of popping balloons from a distance.

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[Alt_F4]

How many pingpingpingpings have a spare blue ray player to hack up :lol:

[Ryan1080]

How many pingpingpingpings have a spare blue ray player to hack up :lol:

I've seen one in the shop for 99 bucks now... DO it!!

[Brockas]

!!!!

That home made laser is awesome!! Keen for group buy, bus hire, and abbo-shooting in NB!




How many pingpingpingpings have a spare blue ray player to hack up :lol:

Replacement blu-ray laser for PS3 = $45.

[XF Falcon]

lol mount the lasers into maglights instead of star trek guns and you can count me in :)

EDIT: Look like its pretty easily done.. http://www.instructables.com/id/Laser-Flashlight-Hack!!/

[fourseven]

http://www.ironfleet.com/wp-content/pew-pew-pew-small.jpg

[Mad_Aussie]

How many pingpingpingpings have a spare blue ray player to hack up :lol:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/150mW-405nm-Blu-ray-Blue-Violet-Laser-Diode-Module-Burn-/270495025769?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3efac28a69

$30-40 bucks you just buy the diode.

[s1mon]

You cant import more than 1mw laser into the country. Ask anyone who has tried to bring one back into the country

All because some dumb pingpingpingpings couldnt stop pointed them at aircraft landing

http://www.customs.gov.au/webdata/resources/files/LaserPointers.pdf

[XF Falcon]

I wonder how efficient are they at stopping every single laser that comes into the country? I guess the xray people would pick them up very easily.

http://www.customs.gov.au/webdata/resources/files/LaserPointers.pdf

What if the person over in Hong Kong or wherever rips off the label on there which states how many mW the laser is before packaging? :)

[JBAE]

!!!!

That home made laser is awesome!! Keen for group buy, bus hire, and abbo-shooting in NB!

Replacement blu-ray laser for PS3 = $45.

I personally would prefer to shoot them with this ....

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[YOUR MATE]

I wonder how efficient are they at stopping every single laser that comes into the country? I guess the xray people would pick them up very easily.

http://www.customs.gov.au/webdata/resources/files/LaserPointers.pdf

What if the person over in Hong Kong or wherever rips off the label on there which states how many mW the laser is before packaging? :)

Not worth it. I tried ordering a high power green laser last year. Shop labeled it as electronics parts and it was built into a flashlight as not to look like a laser pointer, and when it never arrived i started getting concerned. Instead I get a hand delivered package stating what a bad boy I've been and a warning saying if I ever try it again I'll cop a fairly decent fine for whatever it is plus the one they are letting slide. From what I've seen on doco's etc every piece of mail is checked upon entry to the country, altho I do find that hard to believe.

[confuzion]

fuck that is cool

[jr]

I got one through from wicked lasers (wickedlaser.com) was a 60 mW I think, fricken powerful, could easily see it bouncing off the windows at ob city from my parents place in Sorrento. Not cheap though!

[V70R]

My mate was telling me about these in 2004 when we were driving through Silicone Valley on the outskirts of San Fransisco. Scared the crap out of me!

Bring on the BFG I say :D

[Phyber]

BFG!!!!
http://gearcrave.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/bfg9000.jpg




Also since it turned up in the google images search


http://www.transceration.net/images/Partyhard_fatty.gif

[V70R]

I has a Big Fucking Gun

http://www.platformnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/doom_the_rock-300x258.jpg

[Dagon]

I got one through from wicked lasers (wickedlaser.com) was a 60 mW I think, fricken powerful, could easily see it bouncing off the windows at ob city from my parents place in Sorrento. Not cheap though!I've been seeing ads for those things for years... I've always wondered how difficult would it be to mod one to push more power through the diode?
I don't know how diodes are made, but surely you'd be able to squeeze another 10-20mW out of a diode of good build quality like a Wicked Laser... because that's basically what you're doing with those modding-a-blueray-diode lasers.