Lockheed Martin plans to make its most powerful military laser yet, 500 kilowatts (www.popsci.com)

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Lockheed Martin plans to make its most powerful military laser yet, 500 kilowatts::The planned laser will be in the 500-kilowatt range. Weapons like these can defend a ship or base against drones or other projectiles.

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

My bad. I was wrong there. Laser spread is called beam divergence and is measured in typically measured in mRad. Was replying quickly and not thinking. Just knew the measurements off the top of my head because I'm working with its data at the moment.

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