Flying laser weapons are coming.

The U.S. Air Force is on track to test its first airborne laser weapons by 2021. Lasers attached to fighter jets, drones, or even cargo planes will attack targets on the ground and in the air at the speed of light, making the assaults nearly impossible for enemy forces to dodge.

The Air Force has long had an interest in making laser weapons a reality. Lasers are ideal weapons for combat aircraft—in theory, anyhow—because the number of “shots” is limited only by the weapon’s power supply. Furthermore, each laser “shot” is relatively inexpensive compared to expensive missiles and other precision-guided munitions. Lasers also move at the speed of light, or 186,000 miles per second, making them impossible to evade.

Unfortunately, lasers are difficult to develop, particularly if you're trying to buld compact weapons with enough power to damage or destroy enemy objects. But now, according to Warrior Maven, the Air Force Research Lab thinks it can put laser weapons on aircraft starting in 2021. The service will start with larger C-130 and C-17 aircraft at first, then fighter-sized aircraft such as the F-15 and F-35 once technology inevitably shrinks the size of the weapon.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a25383875/air-force-laser-weapons-test/

According to a new report, China may have beaten the U.S. to mounting a railgun on a ship.

A naval vessel called the Haiyangshan, carrying what appears to be a railgun on the bow, allegedly left the confines of the Yangtze River and is being tested on the Pacific Ocean. First spotted in January of 2018, the railgun appears to be the first put on a warship by any country—the United States included. Whether or not China is actually ahead of the U.S. in the world of railgun tech is an open question.

The Haiyangshan, a Yuting I-class tank landing ship, resurfaced on social media December 29. Its location is unknown, but believed to be on the open ocean, though the heavily overcast background makes it impossible to geolocate the ship.

Photographs of what was dubbed the “Yangtze River Monster” first emerged in late January 2018. The photos showed Haiyangshan with a large gun turret on the bow, with the rest of the ship covered shipping containers, tarps, and miscellaneous equipment. The 390-foot-long ship is an older tank-landing ship, designed to run up on enemy coastlines and disgorge 10 tanks or 500 tons of cargo.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a25714579/chinas-railgun-gone-to-sea/

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking for someone to develop a new autonomous underwater drone that can manipulate objects on the seabed floor, all without input from a human operator. The so-called "Angler" drone could be useful for all sorts of tasks, from tapping underwater communications cables to salvaging missile debris.

A notice on the U.S. government site Federal Business Opportunities posted by DARPA says the agency is looking for “an autonomous undersea robot capable of transiting large distances and physically manipulating objects on the seabed with no communications or human intervention.”

Per the solicitation:

This robotic system, herein referred to simply as “Angler”, will operate autonomously and without external communication, to navigate, search, localize, and physically manipulate objects on or near the seabed, using an onboard sensor suite to self-localize, avoid obstacles, manage interaction with the seabed environment, and fulfill manipulation mission objectives. In addition to these navigation and positioning challenges, the robot will be able to perform these search and manipulation objectives autonomously, even in dark, turbulent, and semi-opaque sea conditions.

A lot of factors make autonomous underwater systems tricky to put into practice. The Angler drone will travel closer to the seafloor than aerial drones travel to the ground, making navigation much more hazardous. Water clarity can range from glass-clear to extremely turbid, with visibility sometimes in the inches. GPS and other navigational aids are often severely degraded or unavailable underwater.

The U.S. military has a long history of working on the seafloor, including tapping Soviet communications cables during the Cold War, raising sunken submarines, recovering crashed aircraft, placing sea mines, and other tasks—many sensitive or even secret. A drone like Angler could be sent to the ocean floor to pick up missile debris off the coast of North Korea, giving intelligence analysts a glimpse into the design, construction, and materials used in the missile. A drone could even help locate and identify or salvage crashed airplanes and ships.

DARPA anticipates multiple contractors will want to compete for the Angler program, and will select more than one to compete in a drone-off, with one design eventually selected to fulfill the program.

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>>5556134

>>5556134

The economy is growing and millions of Americans are hooked on meth cocaine and heroin….

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We need beaners to take out the trash.

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>>5556182

No one even watches CNN.

>>5556224

>>5556224

Trump is talking about people that can come and work and take care of themselves right out of the gate….

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