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2014-12-11 Science & Technology

Awesome: Watch Laser Weapon System demonstration aboard USS Ponce

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Posted by Wheating Click8116 2014-12-11 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 How did it find the itty bitty threat on the larger target? Izzit that smart or did it have help?

Posted by Bobby 2014-12-11 07:44|| 2014-12-11 07:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Now make it blue-green light so it can hit those ChiCom subs in the ocean. Make the blue-green one even better by putting it on a sat looking for subs in the ocean.

Posted by 3dc 2014-12-11 08:00|| 2014-12-11 08:00|| Front Page Top

#3 BTW - blue-green goes through the most water.

Posted by 3dc 2014-12-11 08:01|| 2014-12-11 08:01|| Front Page Top

#4 So we have a warship named after Barney Frank? Who knew?

Posted by Ho Chi Cheresh6372 2014-12-11 11:37|| 2014-12-11 11:37|| Front Page Top

#5 "Ponce"?

Who the hell names a warship "Ponce"?

Posted by no mo uro 2014-12-11 11:47|| 2014-12-11 11:47|| Front Page Top

#6 I imagine a blue-green variant would be on the horizon than because this will make torpedos the best way of attack. And of course sea-skimmers with multiple warheads and flack.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-12-11 14:27|| 2014-12-11 14:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Watching the video, the same kind of guy who would name his boy Sue.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-12-11 15:00|| 2014-12-11 15:00|| Front Page Top

#8 Who the hell names a warship "Ponce"?

Ponce is the only ship of the United States Navy that is named for Ponce in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, which in turn was named after the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León, the first governor of Puerto Rico and European discoverer of Florida.

Posted by Woodrow Stalin1308 2014-12-11 21:16|| 2014-12-11 21:16|| Front Page Top

#9 The Better Answer.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-12-11 22:19|| 2014-12-11 22:19|| Front Page Top

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