Yeah, but one or two seconds of pulsed fire on anything from a MiG to a B-52 in the cockpit and you have one less enemy bandit to worry about. If you can program the laser to fire in a small sweeping arc you could even hit the whole fuselage or slice wings off, provided you have the coolant and power supply.The Dark wrote:Don't know type, but powering it for shots will be difficult. Even today's targeting lasers take a rather long time to charge for use, and a weapons-grade laser would take longer, since it needs more power and more cooling.ClaysGhost wrote:What type of laser is it?Current military lasers have about 10% efficiency, with no sign of an increase. The laser F-35 is going to have, which won't be in service for years was stated to be about 10% effiecent
There was talk on having lasers use chemical batteris much like a gun uses bullets encased in gun powder. So one cartridge gives say one second continuous fire before being discarded.