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1/17/2017 7:32:10 PMPLrankOrfelius before revert after revert
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1 Keep in mind that lasers are not very lethal by themselves. They don't cause much bleeding because they instantly cauterize the wounds so you would have to use it against a very critical and complicated organ such as heart or brain. Not to mention that current lasers also need a bit of exposure time to actually burn trough flesh and moving around would simply redistribute some of the lasers' energy thus maybe giving 3rd degree burns at best. Imo combusting someones' clothing or hair could be the most probable causation of killing a person with a laser. 1 Anti-personal lasers are not a thing and wont be a thing for a while. Keep in mind that a laser does not increase its lethality against human beings with power. Even if it might make a hole right trough your body it most likely wont mortally wound a person because of instant cauterization of the wound unless it strikes a major artery within the body. Thus it would have to be used against complicated, easily damaged essential organs such as heart, head and a spine. That is all assuming that laser would stay on point long enough to deal enough damage to the tissue which would require a lot of energy. So there is already absolutely no portability of the AP laser weapon and that is a total no-go in the current doctrine of mobile warfare. That being said, it also would be totally stupid to install a laser on a drone because again you would need to have a lot of power. A light flying drone can barely fit an accumulator to enable it flight for sevral hours let alone to fire a laser capable of severly damaging human flesh.
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3 The freedom fleet is using much more powerful lasers but these are meant to be ship mounted turrets designed to melt focal points of ships which is comparable to a surgeon operating on a patient with a laser. But that surgeon is 20 nautical miles from his patient which he intends to kill. Also the patient is a big armored ship with lots of weakness points such as amunition storages, fuel storages, bridge, communication center etc. 3 The "freedom fleet" is using much more powerful lasers but these are meant to be ship mounted turrets designed to melt focal points of ships which is comparable to a surgeon operating on a patient with a laser. But that surgeon is 20 nautical miles from his patient which he intends to kill. Also the patient is a big armored ship with lots of weakness points such as amunition storages, fuel storages, bridge, communication center etc. Such ships have massive engines and accumulators capable of supplying energy to these weapons.