HORRIFYING NEWS: OPERATIONAL LASER WEAPONS ARE HERE AND READY FOR WARFARE.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/11/tech/innovation/navy-laser-weapon/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

WE FUTURE NOW.

Yeah that's what the world totally needed.

Yeah now that I think about it for more than two seconds it's not that awesome.

Yup, more weapons.

LAZORS.

The endless march of technology.....

I buy that for a dollar!

Technically, it's a huge improvement over showering boats etc with bullets. At least a laser has the potential to surgically disable enemy vehicles and missiles etc with minimal loss of life

Developing new weapons ofc only is done to save so many lifes.
What else would one do with more weapons.

Eh, nonlethal weapons. Technically used for warfare, but without eating ourselves and our environment up as fast.

It is like the nicotine patch, of weapons. If we aren't going to quit cold turkey, we can at least quit using so much gunpowder and lead and blood, when we can simply use powerful nonlethal weapons like microwaves.

This has been a thing for a while now. In fact you slowpoked so hard that there's probably a space battleship in orbit.

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesigns.php#id--Project_Orion_Battleship

Ummmmmmmm

Pffft? Orion? Who doesn't know about Orion?

i saw ProjectRho and thought "dude i read that entire website already! you're so 2000late"

You say it with sarcasm, but this is at the very heart of modern weapon design. Modern bombings are done with a single, high-precision missile from a UAV with the pilot far away in safety. WWII bombings were done with B52 Superfortresses that sent thousands of tons of bombs over entire cities burning it to the ground, with everyone and everything down there a victim.

War got a whole lot less messy. This laser is the next step. Less collateral. Less damage.

Of course, whether you think war is good and glorious is subjective. But the reason people want to design these things is to make war less messy.

True, although you have to admit, we could already have space battleships up there that are top secret!

Yeah...No. Someone would've spotted it by now.

Not if it's a regular-looking satellite equipped with a laser cannon.

Just like the spotted the moon nazis, right?

Battleships are not laser satellites.

battleships in space won't look like what you think they look like.

DON'T RUIN MY DREAMS.