US Navy Tested Tesla Laser Weapon System

U.S. Navy tested the world’s first “Laser Weapons System” the other day. This system of directing energy as a weapon is based off Nikola Tesla’s work which he attempted to share with the U.S. military during the last decade of his life. Tesla too had experimented with lasers, or rays, but his experimentations showed that these rays disperse with distance, just like the weapon above does. So Tesla went in another direction and used microscopic particles in his defense weapon instead, which he coined a “particle beam.” Tesla’s device was a natural extension of his high frequency work after he produced 100 foot long sparks,

[sharkman]

Tesla was an absolute genius. So far ahead of his time. Tesla gave us so much for so little.

[mikekroll]

You don’t necessarily need a laser that can cut something in half with a quick swipe from ground to space. Although that would be nice. You just need enough radiation to mess up its electronics.

[fratercontenduntocculta]

Attaching several of these to a nuclear powered ship, and you have a defense system with almost unlimited ammo. The savings in weight would be truly remarkable. This would be especially good for aircraft. So now, I've witnessed the use of armed robots (drones) in combat and now the final testing of REAL laser weapons and railguns. Progress in technology since my childhood has been an absolute blur!

[vonshango]

2:25 the navy envisions it being used for precision and covert engagements, for starting fires, and what it calls graduated lethality...

[mattludwick]

2:28 seconds it tells you the real reason for these DEWs. STARTING FIRES!!!

[mickeymauricio]

makes me think of what people reporting from Maui

[rogerescudejr]

Before you know it, they'll be a compact one that fits in your pocket like on Star trek.

[jamesmondok]

At this point in time and in the future, I can see the rational of creating this type of weapon!!! It’s hard to fight if everyone has equal power!

[luisdmarinborgos]

Here after seeing what happened in Hawaii

[elfonzo]

Weapons will just get more dangerous and deadly

[tomwolfe]

I’ve never thought about using lasers to heat targets to make them easier to track with IR targeting devices.

[MuchCow]

As soon as fusion is perfected, these will be in practically everything

[yourlocalquackdealer]

Military starting to sound like the galactic empire

[Bearfacts]

Everyone who is sane is opposed to war. That doesn't mean war won't find you.

[jeremyoconnor]

'high energy photonic phase conjugation' of course.

[ThomasLee]

VERY INTERESTED IN ULTRASHORT PULSED LASER (USPL).
USPL solves most of the problems of earlier and current LASER weapons by creating high energy pulses in the Terawatt range. Instead of a continuous stream of a high power laser, this weapon creates ultra high power at very short pulses (in the FEMTO second range). These extremely high power lasers solve so many problems with weight, heating, fog and mist, etc. that the USAF is very interested on placing them on all F-35s and even the coming 6th generation jets now nearing release.

There is not much information available on this new weapon but you can see by examining the hiring trends of high power labs like DARPA, Lockheed and others for what they are currently working on. Even more interesting is the government's slapping very high level security clearance on this project after initial successes in laboratory environments.

[divinegodofseals]

I'd be dead by the time humanity evolves into a interstellar species and countries use mechs as weapons.

[JoinTheTechnicians]

Where are you getting these incredible visuals and video clips??? This is the best looking coverage of the topic i have ever seen and I've got to know where you get your vid content! Amazing work!

[Buckshotbraintv]

Nikola: builds death beam *gets killed*

93 years later

Government: builds death beam

[tihomorjolsimovic]

Nikola Tesla was a Serbian man who did not want war or wepons, he wanted free energy for the world