Laser Weapons - In The Movies
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- A brief overview of movie lasers and how they might function in real life.
#starwars #startrek #laser
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Movies featured:
Flash Gordon 1980
Starship Trooper Invasion 2012
Rick and Morty
Clear and Present Danger 1992
Seinfeld
A New Hope 1977
MechWarrior (Game)
Invincible (Series)
Akira 1988
Robotech (Series)
Moonraker 1979
Goldeneye 1995
Iron Man 208
Robot Jox 1989
Star Trek TNG
Star Trek DS9
Resident Evil 2002
Star Trek: Nemesis
The Empire Strikes Back 1980
Family Guy
Superman: The Animated Series
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Series
Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order (Game)
Star Trek Original Series
Aliens 1986
The Terminator 1984
Terminator 2 1991
Warhammer 40k: Space Marine
Astartes Project By Syama Pedersen
Predator 1987
Men in Black 2019
Reupload?
I took a lot of heat from the nerds, and I'm a nerd I get it, for not properly addressing that phasers and Star Wars blasters are not true lasers - so I had to acknowledged that or hear about it for the rest of my CZcams life.
So that's why
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq what happened to the original video?
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Understandable
@@thatgermanicguy I just made it private. She gone.
Great video. A few points. The first realistic cinematic depiction of a laser beam was in the James Bond movie 'Goldfinger' (1964) although lasers of that period could not cut through steel .Later oxy-lasers could. The guns in 'Aliens' (1986) were also created using existing firearms with bits stuck on e.g. the Pulse Rifle was built around a Thompson SMG. 'Starship Troopers' (1997) also used weapons built around comtemporary firearms. There are rumours that - during the Falklands War - HMS Broadsword carried an experimental laser system which could dazzle enemy pilots.
Great to have all this excellent info added. I honestly could go on forever in these videos but I have to be able to finish them on time. So these comments are super helpful in filling the gaps.
It makes sense to build scifi weapons around real world weapons that have already stood the test of time. They're heavier, and look and "feel" more real on screen and also take into account ergonomic considerations because essentially they are real. Or were real anyway.
Star Trek phasers, even phaser rifles, look and feel too plastic, too light weight. They even clatter like plastic when they hit the ground. One can argue there are in-universe reasons for this, such as why make phasers any heavier than they need to be? Since there is no "barrel pressure" to worry about why not make the whole thing out of polymers? They still just look and feel a bit cheap, but TV often lacks the budget of movies and at least no one can look at Kirk's type II phaser and say, "well that's just a luger with some bits added," they genuinely look new and different.
I'd still like to see beam weapons that behave as they should. Elite Dangerous's laser weapons get it right, by coming "on" instantly and continuously and then vanishing just as instantly. At least someone got it right.
@@Z1gguratVert1go Agreed, Elite's pulse lasers are really immersive, and offer a stark contrast to the ballistic and missile alternatives in the game.
From this scene the M41 sounds like firing 10mm projectiles
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and not a laser beam.
@@Z1gguratVert1go And a certain Major did not like the Federation Phaser rifle all that much
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So great to see Dick Miller's scene in Terminator. It's such an offbeat, comical scene but dark enough it keeps in tone with the rest of the movie. Terminator is one of my favorite 80s sci fi films
Lasers can be used to react to different colors so it only can "erase" one color and ignore the rest, through glass on the back of phones, for example.
I once wrote a story featuring a laser carbine-style weapon system. In form and function it resembled a traditional Italian combat shotgun. Instead of shells, its ammunition was an expendable battery+futuristic capacitor, combined into a single capsule. Thanks to the capacitor, the laser could deploy lethal force instantly. The downside was the capsules would become extremely hot after firing, and would need to be cycled quickly. The weapon also had to be made of heat-resistant ceramics and titanium, making it more comparable in weight to an LMG. Though superior to most conventional firearms, it was derided in my setting for having many drawbacks. It excelled in space combat, but not so much on-planet.
I portrayed the laser as having an invisible discharge, but also producing a terrible seething roar when fired in pressurized areas, thanks to the capsule burning out after every shot. In retrospect, that seems over-played for drama. One mistake I made, if this weapon was designed for use in space, it should have visible radiators for heat dissipation. I didn't know space radiators were a thing back then.
Dope
I was having a minor eye operation yesterday and I was thinking about laser weapons - as you do - and I thought about the wounds they’d cause. Burns obviously but mainly it would be damage to vision. In a laser war there would be many many people blinded by the lasers. Nasty.
When it comes to hand held laser weapons I think of it this way, back in the 70s we had a brick of a cell phone that could talk for 30 minutes on a 10 hour recharge and it was pretty much limited to NYC. Now look at what we have! So if it is possible at all to do then man will do it.
Also reminded that back in about 1900 a man quit his job at the patent office and the reason he gave was that everything that could be invented had!
I like that you included Macross in here
A bit ironic, considering the franchise is more known for the Macross Missile Massacre and Itano Circus, which focus on, well, guided missiles and the spamming of them.
Edit: Shame it appears to be the wonky Robotech release though.
JJ, thanks for adding Robot Jox, Flash Gordon (‘80) and the orbital battle scene in Moonraker (great SFX by the late Derek Meddings) to this vid on Laser/Plasma, Particle weaponry. It was fun!
I got you
I’m glad you included Starship Troopers :)
I really like the inclusion of positive uses for lasers at the end of the video. Although weapons are full of interesting technology, they are still tools for death and destruction. It feels great to end on a positive like progress in the medical field.
A novel I read fairly recently had the 'explanation' for why lasers are visible and make sound in space is the ships' computers fill in those details for the benefit of the crew, making it easier for meat bags to visualise what is going on.
This was a very straight-forward and informative video! Well done and thank you! Even touched on a lot of the topics I'd hoped you would.
Although I’m not a prophet, I predict that conventional, gunpowder-powered firearms will be around for quite some time yet. They have, after all, been around for 700 years.
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”
Archy
Thank for reminding me i need to get a copy of Flash Gordon.
A camp classic....in the finest pantomime tradition....
I kinda hate it nowadays, what with the numerous cringy love letter moments based on it when it comes to certain recent Star Wars works like The Book of Boba Fett.
Surprised you didn't mention Fallout and the Plasma/Laser based weapons.
Anyways, Styropyro does a great job on lasers with a few other youtubers touching on the subject. Laser tech has evolved quite a bit since the early days. Even now, things are starting to ramp up for the IR and UV lasers. Also, I do agree that MWO does a good job with Lasers where you have pulse vs. regular lasers, having to do heat management as one of the core principles of the game. You can strap on a tone of lasers to the heavy/assault guys, but you'll overheat yourself pretty damn quick.
I'd say that next to Genetics, lasers are probably one of my top things to study in terms of Science. Laser Rust removal, tattoo removal, surgery, precision metal cutting, it's all quite interesting.
Supposedly Raytheon's latest laser weapon system has a efficiency rating of up to 70% so not nearly as much heat build-up as the older ones.
Lol, the call out to RoboJox. My absolute favorite movie when I was kid, that I refuse to watch again for fear it will ruin a pristine childhood memory 😅
I know exactly what you mean but rewatching the fight scenes is good fun
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq for the utter destruction of childhood memories...Rude Guy...hilarious..
2:20 randomly aiming the secret weapon at the guys during their lunchbreak 😂
I like to mention that The Green Hornet TV series has a laser weapon at the start of Episode 9. The effects are cheap but at least its worth mentioning, and Black Beauty car that the main characters rode is my favorite movie car of all time.
The best portrayal of a laser in a movie that I know of is Reel Genius (1985).
Very enlightening Johnny and unexpected.
You're the best, Johnny
I don't care if it isn't real, I would still want a light saber !!! Thanks for the video !! I love Warhammer 40K Space Marine!!
Take note into where the idea of star wars weapon laser came from, flak tracer rounds from ww2 machine guns, fury movie, the thick tracers you see is accurate.
I love how you put robotech series as my favourite anime 😍😍
"I can't be blind, Jerry, the blind are courageous."
LMAO what a good line
What about the Daleks, and Cybermen? Uchuu Senkan Yamato, was a great weapon also.
Sorry if I was one of the contributors that made you change the video.
Take care, and all the best.
No not at all! I always appreciate your comments. I could definitely do some Doctor Who themed stuff in the future. I'm a fan.
I believe Daleks use a Neutronic blaster or something. Apparently it's powerful enough to reduce buildings to rubble, but the Daleks intentionally underpower it so it doesn't kill humans instantly, but rather burns their nervous system from the inside out, causing immense pain. It can also non-lethally incapacitate or permanently cripple someone.
@@dragonfell5078 Indeed. In Remembrance of the Daleks the Doctor says that the weapon fired by Daleks scrambles the inside of the body of those it hits. Special weapons Dalek has an explosive effect when firing. Some also have flamethrowers. On one occasion they use bullets when their regular weapons stop working, the black and silver daleks featured once in the 70s. The plungers can also strangle enemies, with many more non-combat uses. Not sure about the ships or larger flying vehicles, likely just lasers, plasma, something else or just scaled up versions of regular dalek weapons, not sure how that would work on a larger scale though.
I still dive behind the sofa at the mere mention of the Daleks...scary...especially the cocky knee accents
@@eamonnclabby7067 If that scares you then definitely never watch the X-Files. Scariest TV show ever made. I only got into it as an adult and I greatly enjoy it.
Excellent as always mate!! 👏👏👏
Dr Evil:"A giant "laser" on the moon."
Fun video, for sure!
It's a shame that the Nazis in Iron Sky part 1 don't have lasers. But the laser in a WW2 movie would be a fun idea. I'm about to call QT to present this idea for his "Inglourious Basterds" prequel.
Otoh it fits the "we are backward" theme that we see (ie no transistors) since LASER is a post WW2 development
What about using a resource mined from the ground. Energon for example. Energon powered pistols, rifles and cannons are a staple in Transformers. Energon has to be refined before being used, as in its raw state its highly explosive. Also can be unstable in very high quantities.
I can't believe you used Robot Jox as an example! I thought I was the only one who knew about that movie lol
Love Robot Jox
God I love The Clone Wars great show recommend it 100% 5:46
Dr Evil: fire the laser!
Oh hell yes!!! You used scenes from the best cartoon/anime ever....Robotech!!!!
I'm a big Robotech fan, but it's NOT the best cartoon/anime ever. Go rewatch it and it doesn't hold up. Sadly Harmony Gold has sat on the IP for it, so no new content.
@@whater39 I disagree with you 500%
@@Kolonol1 They kept on using the same footage of battle again and again. I could say the same for Minmay's songs, always on repeat.
The original Macross and its sequels (minus II and Delta) are still better. Not a fan of these bowlderizations.
@@whater39 yes they did....but find a cartoon that didn't do that from that time period...
Even if they'll somehow become another revolutionary example in real life warfare (let's face it, UN-delagated rules on war will eventually stop catching on just because), we'll still stay nostalgic to what fiction like Star Wars will call "slugthrowers". Oh, and the fictional side of things, magitek enhancements.
'Course, beam cannons sure appeal to me, particularly the kind shown in some animated works and in games like the FreeSpace duology. Also tactical laser satellites, as we've seen here with Invincible and AKIRA footage (though a little bit of Tiberium universe Command and Conquer games and Justice League Unlimited would have helped).
5:35: If you think this is over the top, wait till you see Kyle "Forcedamned" Katarn neatly shaving his beard with his very own lightsaber in Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast.
6:03: Nice to see what appear to be Star Wars Legends sourcebooks.
On a sidenote, a damn shame the Astartes fanfilm is now besmirched by bloody GW.
The M41A Pulse Rifle doesn't fire lasers or plasma. It fires a 10mm caseless explosive tipped armor piercing round, with the under barrel being a grenade launcher. So I'm curious as to why clips from Aliens is in here. Hudson does make reference to other weapons like the Independently targeting particle beam phalanx and the phase plasma Pulse Rifles which was originally a descriptions of the pulse rifles being used to cut through part of the tunnel vents in an earlier draft of the script. But when Ripley asks Gorman what the Pulse Rifle fires he tells her that it's a 10mm caseless explosive tipped armor piercing round.
Really enjoyed this, I’d like to see more sci fi topics, if you’re willing
Absolutely
Justice League unlimited mentioned two episodes with an Ion cannon, one, to make a manmade canyon between a city and a crap load of replicating bots, the other, when Luther/***spoiler used it on Cadmus, making it look like the JLU did it.
Gods, how I love that Watchtower weapon.
Am I dreaming or is this second time this video has been uploaded? I can only imagine CZcams yoinking the first one down for some reason.
I did this voluntarily. I got some geek heat for not properly acknowledging phasers and blasters but that's fair.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq yes people get very attached to such items....
When I expressed how cool it'd be to have a light saber like those portrayed in Star Wars, my dad shut me down really quickly and pretty negatively by saying it wouldn't be possible in real life, not only because he doesn't think the tech required to create such a weapon is even possible to make it a reality, but he said that it'd be impossible to control. His response was literally, "It'll never happen because you'd end up cutting your own arm off." Of course he seems to enjoy being kind of a killjoy whenever I speculate on things that are highly improbable but not completely impossible. He thinks we will never achieve a level of spacefaring that is depicted in scifi like Star Wars, Mass Effect, etc. He stated, and I quote, "Space flight on the level you are talking about will never happen because there's absolutely nothing out there that we'd be interested in, we'll never have tech to make it possible because its just not possible to create tech that would work at all, let alone efficiently enough to make that a reality." He went on to say that if there were other races of life out there, that it would only end up as a real life "War of the Worlds". That last bit could be a risk, but my counter for that is simply that while a conflict with another race could be a real threat to consider, it's not wise to make it sound like it would be inevitable. History has proven that while it did not last, man has successfully interacted with others discovered while exploring a new area peacefully. Granted the others discovered where other humans that had been living in the newly discovered area for a very long time, as opposed to another race of beings entirely, but that seems to be a minor technicality. While I do agree with him that it's pretty much not likely it'll happen anytime soon, and certainly not in my lifetime, I don't think one should rule the plausible but unlikely out completely. I mean it was not so long ago that people thought flight was impossible, and now we have an entire industry devoted to flying people all over the world on a regular basis. I also did some very basic research, and last time I looked NASA was already implementing a long-term project aimed at sending a manned craft to Mars with long-term goals of looking into colonizing the planet. I believe NASA called it Project Artemis. It's been quite awhile though since I looked it up so maybe it got scrapped, I don't know. I'm also not at all an expert on any of this.
I love Battletech the history and technology of it is really cool. Still waiting for a F-14 Tomcat video. 🙏
On the list I promise
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq awesome 😎
Great, more Danger Zone spam incoming.
I like to think that until we discover a new element to concentrate laser into a strong and deadly energy without compromise handheld carry, we still got a long way to go ish…
Tho Kinetic rod falling from space still scary
I think a really cool idea would be engery weapons viewed through the eyes of a non-military, non-police person.
Like, you're just someone causally carrying a plasma pistol under your shirt and you watch hours of youtube videos about what your particular plasma pistol is practically capable of
Knew a guy who lost an eye to a PEQ-15 that was bootleg and had the safety removed from the high power setting. There was a slight *pop*, and bye-bye eyesight.
I don't remember off the top of my head, but I think military weapon mounted lasers run about 50mW in the high setting. Basically to direct aircraft, whose pilots are wearing night vision gear. The laser pointer you can get at a gas station will typically run about 0.2-0.3mW.
It's also interesting to note that anything over, I think, 0.7mW, or thereabouts, is actually regulated by the Food & Drug Administration, as well as by the State Department under the International Trade In Arms Regulations.
Technically, my understanding is, if I even show the manual to a non-US citizen that's a felony.
Because of export restrictions?
@jack4927 Yup. I might be mistaken, but those aren't dice I'm willing to roll.
@@jackstecker5796 probably I know it's true of some gear can't remember what it was though NODS I think
Just denting armor in key locations with a hammer can handicap or even disable someone.
Biggest problem with lasers in space is heat, the heat has nowhere to go so the laser might just end up cooking the ship. Of course such trivialities tend to be handwaved away for the sake of spectacle and convenience.
Spaceships have a thermal/kinetic sink that transfers such stuff into another universe. Only problem is that the energy is not destroyed so occasionally an alien is quick-fried on the "ceramic throne" or gets slammed into his TV set at 6g without any visible reason
Enjoyed the vid but you missed the perfect scene to show off laser weapon, the cool bit in Congo when Laura Linney uses a laser to slice up killer apes.
Movie should be blacklisted. Book is still superior.
I don’t recognize the clone wars clip from 5:50
Flash Gordan
Terminator(1-6)
Star Wars(1-9)
Star Trek
Robotech
Gundam
Akira(1988)
Moonraker(1978)
Iron man(1-3)
“Dozers build more Reactors! Lasers a lot of Power”
=Townes=
Lasers sound cool on paper but if you think about it, it's an attempt to use concentrated radiation to induce heat damage. This leads to 2 problems, the first being that most armour used by modern military equipment would require an absurd amount of energy to burn through. Then there's the issue of the inverse square law which diminishes the concentration of radiation energy the further it travels. This makes high powered lasers mostly effective as short range weapons. However, when engaging a close range target, most preexisting weapons are probably far more efficient than lasers.
can we get FN FAL - In The Movies?
Or the P90 (Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Counter-Strike, Gunslinger Girl) for that matter.
My dude, the guns in Aliens are, well, guns. Both actually and in universe. When Ripley asks Gorman what the pulse rifles fire, he says, "10mm explosive tipped caseless. Standard light armor piercing round."
They fire a caseless ammo propelled by plasma.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Citation? Asking because I am a big fan and I'm curious.
@@lawrenceschuman5354 watch the drop ship scene he actually refers to the rifle as a plasma rifle. Caseless means no propellant aka gunpowder meaning it is being fired using plasma.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq I remember the line about plasma rifles is in the novelization of the screenplay, but I don't recall offhand if it was in the theatrical release or director's cut. And caseless gunpowder guns are a thing. The H&K G-11 prototype fires a 4.73x33mm caseless bullet. The West German army passed on adopting it. But word of it had entered the nerdosphere in the 1980s. It's available in the tabletop RPG Twilight 2000, for example. And it looks like a more boring version of the pulse rifle. Kind of like a Glock is a more boring version of... everything else. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_G11
If styropro was in this video that would have been the cherry on top
Imma firin mah Lazooor!!!
At first, i read it as "Last Weapons".
I don't think that laser would become a primary military weapon in any prospective age, besides from specialized usage, as those you mentioned. Too much stuff or problems shrinks it's effectiveness and usable space, as those you mentioned at atmospheric areas, steam, clouds, fogs, dust, any particle disturbs the ray, also in the space you have dust and interstellar particles.
Also overheating is a big problem in a vacuum, because the definition of vacuum is the lack of (enough) matter and no matter is no 'transporting' of heat into the environment.
The next think is, with the right material to using as a ship's or staion's surface, you can absorb or reflect most (or all) of the laser's energy, what makes it complete useless as a primary weapon.
And because of the physical nature of laser, those problems where always be problems, independently of the technological advance, in the real life we must deal with real physics and don't have those magical gadgets and pseudophysics as in those scifantasy flicks.
Ayy first and good job for taking critique and not ignoring it
My Hawkmen demanded a reupload on this one
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Brian Blessed s finest ( very camp...) hour ...I remember him in Z cars a fictional Liverpool cop show....
Mega cool 😎
I believe star wars blasters are supposed to be plasma. Turbolasers are called such in universe because they use an internal laser to heat up the gas into plasma
can i have a shout out
Hallo Jacob...peace and love from Merseyside....
I don't think plasma weapons are possible unless its like a personal plasma knife or something. Lasers on the other hand will probably be used in space extensively and much less on planets with a lot of atmosphere.
5:16 what episode is this?
I found it. The episode is 1x09 ‘What Are Little Girls Made Of?’.
Most film and tv "rayguns" are almost always particle weapons.
Also that should be "movie" and not "move" in your description.
Tiger 1 in movie please
gundam had great beam weapons.
Cheack sweedish thermal conduction rays
Nice use of Robotech clips!
Uh no the star wars ones are colored because they are powered by Tibanna gas...something we do not possess...and that's the thing everyone gets wrong....and now Disney got it wrong too....a Lightsaber is a laser sword with several favored lasers that terminate each other at a focal point....the tip....the rounded tip is an optical illusion. But again, we do not have Ilum Krystal's or force crystals (I don't go by the whole Disney Kyber crystal bs) so we can't build them.
When someone says Laser guns then I'm thinking Fallout universe
It's funny, this video is about laser/energy weapons and JJ keeps on showing clips from Aliens and the pulse rifle, which, despite its name, is not a laser/energy weaon.
But it's a plasma weapon, which is an energy weapon. It's been a while since I made this video, but I think I explicitly explain that weapon.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq No. pulse rifles were not energy weapons, they were kinetic and not all that different from present day guns. It's explained in the movie that the pulse rifle fires a 10mm careless, light armor piercing, high explosive round and has a 30mm over-under grenade launcher, So not a plasma weapon and neither is the smart gun, although it's never specifically stated what kind of round it fires.
I think that there might be a reference to some kind of energy weapon that the Colonial Marines use, I think it's in the deleted scene where Hudson is bragging in the dropship about his squad and the weapons available to them. But they never show any energy weapons, unless you consider a flamethrower an energy weapon.
'Check it out we got phase plasma pulse rifles' is the direct qoute. A plasma rifle fires a projectile using electricity, not gunpowder. It's an energy weapon.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq During the scene when the Marines go deeper into the complex, Ripley asks Gorman what the pulse rifles fire and he replies, 10mm explosive tip careless, standard light armor piercing. That sure sounds like a firearm to me.
Not careless but caseless. It's caseless because it has no gunpowder. It uses plasma energy to propel the 10mm caseless projectile. To be honest I didn't explain it well in the video. I was trying to highlight it as a sort of hybrid energy weapon of sorts. Uses electricity to create plasma and propel a physical caseless bullet.
Congo (1995)?
What about plasma weapons????
If they get lasers we get mirrors!!! Not a huge problem!!!
Laser and plasma projectile are not the same thing...although Laser weapons are a real thing and there been experimented in past 40 years...no plasma weapon ever been made.
in case you dont know plasma is 4th state of matter...when you heat up gas to a 6000 celsius or more,gas become plasma ...just like what happening inside the sun every sec.
weapons in star wars are both laser and plasma weapons so i understand why its confusing for you.
only similar thing they have is they both operate with high temperature and can badly burn if get contact with a human skin.
also there was a movie called spectral-2016 which the ending scene was about plasma weapons if u didnt watch that yet.
I feel like we are on the same page my friend. I feel like maybe you didn't get the end of this video :)
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq yes i notice you explaining it...very well but i post my comment before watch this video and notice some people said there was a another video before this.
@@jacklarkson4505 I gotcha! Well I appreciate the post because it helps to add clarity. :)
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq of course man...its a shame you dont have more followers with these amazing informative videos.
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One reason why I really liked Aliens was the use of believable, cool projectile weapons,instead of energy weapons. They've been called pulse rifles but fired 10mm rounds and rifle grenades. I don't think Aliens fits the subject of this video.
I still love the approach the ole Traveller TT RPG takes. Sure, they have laser pistols. But even a very high tech one still is more cumbersome and does less weapons than...
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2:24 come again?
Enemy Ship: (Fires anti ship missile)
U.S. Ship: (Fucking beams it out of existence)
Enemy Ship: "Oh come on they're using Aimbot!!!"
You lost me at then end when you said plasma weapons would be more practical. If we're talking wakefield plasma lasers which are actually particle accelerators then yes but the classic bolts of plasma wouldn't work.
Sorry I was referring to the Plasma railgun concept as described in the "Aliens" weapon.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Not sure if that would work that much better tbh. Best you can try is make it a plasma beam but then you have a worse particle beam. Plasma weapons are very difficult to get working in general.
Who new from a hundred years ago that we would have the ability to use mobile computers with screens on them. Just to could complain on FB? 😄 🤣
I recommend the backyard scientist who build a truck mounted laser turret in his garage. And contrary to popular belief, a simple mirror will not protect you from a powerfull enough laser.
Also the star war project was batshit insane, it has as much basis in reallity as the star wars movies but burned much more tax payer money, but hey maybe all of that will trickle down to common american again ey?
Laser weapons in space combat is the dumbest weapon. With kinetic you theoretically have infinite range. Lasers will spread and fade.
stah-ols instead of stye-uls (style)
trah-ols instead of trai-uls.... (trial)
sry I get distracted by the weirdest stuff in videos, esp how people talk.
There are over 160 English dialects.
Lasers are stupid. It gives away your position.
Half the weapons shown were not lasers
If it weren't for those pesky lawmakers and ethics People, the active denial system could've saved lives in places like Afghanistan, stop riots from going south- you get what I mean.
Dear Johnny Johnson and anyone reading i hope all is well. I just want to say that Jesus Christ loves and cares for you. If you haven't done so please accept Him as your savior and Lord. And remember to enjoy and cherish all that is good and right in life for we only get one life and we don't know what tomorrow will bring.
Another excellent choice......maybe check out Rude Guy CZcams for rather rude but very funny re dubbing of Science fiction movies and Gerry Anderson clips...no spoilers from Clabby Towers