{"id":5268,"date":"2013-04-09T13:33:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T11:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=5268"},"modified":"2018-07-12T16:07:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T14:07:32","slug":"and-star-wars-is-reachable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=5268","title":{"rendered":"And Star Wars is reachable&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/uav.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-Post Icon wp-image-5269\" title=\"uav\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/uav-64x64.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/uav-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/uav-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 64px) 100vw, 64px\" \/><\/a>What sounds like a bad joke or a nerd watching too much SciFi series, is<br \/>\nthe hard truth. A guided laser system (LaWS as the US Navy calls it) is able<br \/>\nto seek and destroy potential dangerous flying objects. Tested with a drone<br \/>\nthe ship burnt the birdie down into the ocean.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The following video explains it very well:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-5268-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Laser-Weapon-System-LaWS.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Laser-Weapon-System-LaWS.mp4\">https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Laser-Weapon-System-LaWS.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Needless to say if this technique comes at the wrong hands, one could do pretty bad things with it.<\/p>\n<p>The laser system itself uses three laser types. A blue laser for scanning the target, the red laser is disabling it&#8217;s seeking abilities and the green laser is finally taking it down.<\/p>\n<p>But for one thing, this laser would also be good. If there&#8217;s an edible bird flying around, just make it a target and voil\u00e0 &#8211; there&#8217;s fresh grilled and sliced birdie for lunch <img src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/wink.png\" alt=\";)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The LaWS shall be available in 2014 and when will it become transportable and handy like a gun? I expect such weapons within the next 10 years and then we will have &#8220;Star Wars&#8221;-like fights&#8230; no doubt!<\/p>\n<p>What if this system, once set operational, is taking down an innocent flying object such as a civic airplane? I guess the &#8220;Ooops, we considered it a trheat to the USA&#8221; would bring up some real anger and hatred against the USA if not war in the worst case.<\/p>\n<p>It is horrible how humans steadily continue to develop mass destruction weapons &#8211; it&#8217;s only a matter of time when mankind is about to eradicate itself at the push of a button.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully this will only happen, when I am already decaying deep down under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What sounds like a bad joke or a nerd watching too much SciFi series, is the hard truth. A guided laser system (LaWS as the US Navy calls it) is able to seek and destroy potential dangerous flying objects. Tested with a drone the ship burnt the birdie down into the ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,19,150],"tags":[2548,556,2549,36,1898],"class_list":["post-5268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities","category-news","category-thoughts-2","category-video","tag-anti-aircraft","tag-laser","tag-us-navy","tag-usa","tag-weapon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}