Can lasers be used as weapons?

Can you just imagine a tank or an infantry unit with a laser.

 

Lasers are already implemented in the space program. As for ground forces, not too far away. The price is the hold up.

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"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet or fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."

 

Yeah, could you just imagine one soldier with a laser? It would be like having a machine gun in the Revolutionary War. Being able to mow down entire regiments and even destroy heavily armored tanks with ease. Wow!

 

Lasers are a tricky thing. Why would an infantry man want a laser? Lasers work by concentrating energy into 1 focused point. That energy would then superheat the focal point and melt it or cut it.
Lasers need a massive power source to be of any threat. Any infantry man shooting a tank with a laser would be a sitting duck. Buck Rogers is still far away


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Carthage must be destroyed!

 

I think lasers are not too fay away from being used as handheld weapons. They use lasers all over the world, and in space, but i havn't yet found somewhere that uses them with tanks or infantry units.

 

What the hell?!?! This is "World War Two General" Remember?? No lasers were used in the war, drop this shit topic to open forums!

 

i feel we are going to be able with the high tech machinery we have now all a lazer is is a large amount of light compacted into a single beam.

 

i tend to agree with you sir

 

i agree i would rather have my m1 then a small lazer whats the fun of that?

 

i agree get out of this chat before get my troops and track you down like a dog

 

That's a bunch of horse s**t why they never even heard of a lazer in the Revolutionary war

 

hey Jcon...i don't mean to be anal but maybe you should condence your posts more
it doesn't look good to spread some of your posts over 2-3 different posts