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Ok this is based on the wireless tazer except with my own ideas.Basiclly you would have a tesla coil inside the barrel of the gun the tyroid would have to be made out of a sturdy conductor that can be polished to a mirror finish.you would make one side of the tyroid a mirror with an angle of refraction
at 90 degrees(mirror B).now running next to the coil would be a single uv laser.Insulated in plexiglass pointed at a mirror with an angle of refraction at 90 degress(mirror A).now with the laser on it hits mirror A bounces to mirror B(directly contacting the tyroid) and exits a barrel at which point the tesla coil is turned on.Since the laser is insulated the arc shouldnt fry the laser and instead follow the ionized air path down to a target to cause a good bit of damage.And you wouldnt need two lasers to create a circuit because a tesla coil discharge flows to ground(your target) through path of least resistance (Laser trail)
Let me know if this holds water.
Also maybe use a Nucell(nuclear battery) if they've fixed the radiation caused degredation problem for a power source
Supposedly nucells in ideal conditions will put out 70 watts for about 2 years out of something the size of a soup can
(?) Possible parts?
http://www.halfbake...m/idea/www.Amazing1
all kinds of neat stuff [lurchula, Oct 21 2004]
Channeling of an ionizing electrical streamer by a laser beam
http://www.iop.org/.../361/26/nj2161.html
Yadda [phoenix, Oct 21 2004]
(?) Non-Lethal Weapons: Terms and References
http://www.zarc.com...af.html#Electricals
Yadda (See "Electrical, Projector") [phoenix, Oct 21 2004]
(?) Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon
http://www.sew-lexicon.com/gloss_a.htm
Yadda (See "ANTI-PERSONNEL BEAM WEAPON (APBW)") [phoenix, Oct 21 2004]
(?) Set Phasers on Stun
http://www.x10.com/.../news/1205_apbw.htm
[phoenix, Oct 21 2004]
(?) HSV Technologies Announces Patent on Engine Disabling Weapon
http://www.hsvt.org/Release2222000.html
[phoenix, Oct 21 2004]
Information Unlimited
https://www.amazing1.com/
First link fixed after 13 and a half years [notexactly, Jun 09 2018]
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Yes, but can you carry it in a holster? |
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It would be about the size of a shot gun.maybe larger (think men in black)I would think it would be mostly for fun.Especially considering that you can actually see the "beam" because of Electron flow and ionization. I for one would like to have Something like that to toy around with.
I was hoping there wouldnt be to much energy loss over distance. I'd like to see it set fire to something. |
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Who cares as long as looks cool and burns things. |
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P.S. I hope Arnie wins itll be nice to have a legion of T-800's protecting america |
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Burning tiny holes in armor is not what the laser is best at. A single laser scanned over a battelfield would could knock out almost every photo sensor (including retinas). They can be used to remotely set fires over a wide area of grassland. They are also wonderful for IR illumination, communications and target illumination. |
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I wonder if the laser [UB] is describing was a test platform for their anti-satellite program. |
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The laser itself isnt what would cause the burning it would be the high voltage running across it to the target that does it |
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As stated in the idea, the laser is just there to ionise the air, allowing the charge to flow to the target. I've no figures to hand, but I'm imagining that a UV laser with enough power to do this is at any significant range is probably going to burn a hole in the target anyway. |
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I'd be interested to see if anyone does have numbers, though. Scale this up and you could fire lightning bolts at things. |
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Would anyone know what the minimum possible size for this would be |
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//I've no figures to hand, but I'm imagining that a UV laser with enough power to do this is at any significant range is probably going to burn a hole in the target anyway.\\ |
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I'll get a link on this in a bit (rather tired at the moment) but there's a company making a wireless Taser that works on this principle. Actually, that kind of makes this baked I guess. Anyway it's said to be harmless so I presume the LASER isn't all that powerful. |
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[-] because it's not written in intelligible English. |
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