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Originally Posted by supervenom
Sigh. Active Laser Defense System.
Laser: a device that produces a nearly parallel, nearly monochromatic, and coherent beam of light by exciting atoms to a higher energy level and causing them to radiate their energy in phase.
If it does not move faster than the speed of light. The laser will stop it.
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Lasers are cool and all but the Phalanx is like sex through munitions.
On top of raw awesome firepower these things can be linked into multiple radar and other early warning tech to locate an incoming object. Given enough warning(equals not much) these things can and will hit any thing at any speed.
P.S.
Laser = heat energy
Rail gun = kinetic energy
They both have their uses and one is not necessarily better than the other. If you want a hint as to how powerful rail guns are/can be, the navy is working on fitting battle ships with a single railgun that runs damn near the
entire length of the ship. That is a LOT of kinetic energy.
P.P.S.
The phalanx gives me goose bumps just thinking about it. lol