General / Off-Topic Getting there, Lockheed Martin’s 60-killowatt laser

[winterknight]

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-lockheed-martin-world-record-setting-60kw.html

[FONT=&quot]Lockheed Martin said it has finished developing a 60 Kilowatt (kW) laser system and is now getting ready to hand it over to the U.S. Army.
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]The aerospace and defense firm claimed in a press release Thursday that in testing earlier this month the laser beam system achieved a 58kW blast, a world record for a laser of this type.

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Take note developers,

The laser system also proved to be highly efficient in testing, capable of translating more than 43 percent of the electricity that powered it directly into the actual laser beam it emitted.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-03-lockheed-martin-world-record-setting-60kw.html#jCp

 

[Patrick_68000]

Thanks for the links. The laser is the future on the battlefields. But the battlefields are not the future for the humanity