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Lockheed Martin plans to make its most powerful military laser yet, 500 kilowatts (www.popsci.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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Lockheed Martin plans to make its most powerful military laser yet, 500 kilowatts::The planned laser will be in the 500-kilowatt range. Weapons like these can defend a ship or base against drones or other projectiles.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For anyone wondering, it would take 128.7 Real Genius laser beam blasts worth of energy to make one time travel jump in Back to the Future's Delorean.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Great Scott!

[–] feedum_sneedson 1 points 1 year ago

jigga watts