2/11/2023 0 Comments Ray gun world at war campaign![]() ![]() For a laser beam, say, made of (massless) photons, that’s around 2,000 joules of sharply focused energy – at least 30,000 watts per zap. To pack the same kinetic punch as a bullet, you need a lot of energy to deliver the mass. But so far, the chemical reactions in guns and artillery are just heaps more efficient. ![]() So why, in the 21st century, are we still hurling bits of hot metal about? Where’s my ray gun?Ĭompared with conventional weapons, a laser could be deadly accurate, silent, light speed, cheap to use and would never run out of ammo. Military research into so-called directed energy weapons (Dew), continues to this day. Charles Townes with his maser, the forerunner to the laser. ![]()
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