A megawatt power laser mounted on a 747 for shooting down ICBMs apparently!
All we need now is a witchspace drive, thruspace motors and shields and we're there!
Cheers,
Drew.
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Not far off an Elite style ship... :-)
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A megawatt power laser mounted on a 747 for shooting down ICBMs apparently!
All we need now is a witchspace drive, thruspace motors and shields and we're there!
Cheers,
Drew.
A megawatt power laser mounted on a 747 for shooting down ICBMs apparently!
All we need now is a witchspace drive, thruspace motors and shields and we're there!
Cheers,
Drew.
Re: Not far off an Elite style ship... :-)
Ah, yes: the easy bit.drew wrote:All we need now is a witchspace drive, thruspace motors and shields and we're there!
You came in that? You're braver than I thought!
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A beam laser is also a 1 megawatt laser.Captain Hesperus wrote:One megawatt.
It's a pulse laser then. Even an Adder can mount a Beam laser.
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infact, its a bundle of pulse laser tubes
A military laser is one, with even more tubes if you go by the wiki..
Which i admit dont quite add up unless it fires more tubes at once....
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not exactly shields , but here's a bit about plasma shielding a plane for stealth purposes
http://www.aeronautics.ru/plasmamain.htm
http://www.aeronautics.ru/plasmamain.htm