Re: Airborne lasers
From: John Schilling (schillin_at_spock.usc.edu)
Date: 11/16/04
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Date: 15 Nov 2004 22:48:36 -0800
"Christopher M. Jones" <christopher.m.jones@gmail.com> writes:
>Pat Flannery wrote:
>> Yeah, if you are going to have it optimized to accomplish this, then the
>> platform should be stealthy, so as not to need escort, have
>> exceptionally long loiter time in its assigned area, be unmanned so that
>> crew comfort and maintenance aren't problems, and operate at very high
>> altitude so that both its field of view is improved, and its laser
>> doesn't need to pierce so much atmosphere on its way to the target.
>> To me, this sounds like a job for some sort of stealth airship.
>Super stratospheric dirigible of destruction!
>I like it!
Yeah, but it's too slow to be strategically responsive. Can we put an
ion drive on it, and make it hypersonic?
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