EMFCRACKSHOT said:
I don't know, i can see some potential. It seems like the thing you could quite easily tape the barrel of a gun as an extra secondary, non lethal weapon. And apparently its powerful enough to set things on fire if held on for long enough. Bunch of insurgents in a house? Just point your laser at it and poof, problem gone.
The problem here is that your thinking about cool, not practicality.
First off, if you think about it, you will likely see the problem of attaching a non-lethal weapon to a giant gun. It takes up space, weight, and power in order to blind the enemy milliseconds before it rips them apart.
Second, you're greatly overestimating the capacity of this lazer. We have a vast arsenal of ways to make a structure disappear already. Ones which arn't defeated by reflective surfaces, and likely violates some Geneva conventions regarding unnecessary pain and suffering. But more importantly, this lazer won't burn a hole through thin plywood, much less a location containing military threats. Assuming you could, on a helicopter or similar bouncy, moving vehicle, keep the lazer at pinpoint accuracy for long enough to ignite the surface, and assuming the fire spreads, and assuming it's not dealt with...well then you have to wonder why you didn't just use an incendiary round. Hell at that point, a flaming arrow would be more practical.
I Agree it would be awesome. But sadly, I'm quite confident that it is vastly outclassed in every way, shape, and form by technology that is decades, of not centuries, old.
