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Lockheed Martin plans to make its most powerful military laser yet, 500 kilowatts (www.popsci.com)
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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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[–] TropicalDingdong 1 points 1 year ago

I mean it would seem like they are in a rough order of magnitude to probably be able to have some meaningful quantity of photons hitting the ground, but there are so many considerations between here and there. #1 being that there is just a shit ton of atmosphere in the way, and if you were pumping a laser that is going to be able to interact with 'stuff' on the ground, its also going to interact with 'stuff' in the atmosphere. I'll at least read the wiki on it.