The Moon, Europa

The Moon, Europa

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Anti-Missile Lasers

They're not as great as sharks with laser beams on their heads, but much more useful...


http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-06/raytheon-plans-lightweight-airborne-lasers-can-confuse-missile-electronics-rather-destroy-them 


I found the sixth paragraph particularly interesting, "...missiles with electronics-disabling capabilities, rather than just explosives..." Sounds like a deployable explosive EMP device. 

1 comment:

ewis77 said...

That is interesting. Gonna have to break out the electronics text books to see how that might work.