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Originally Posted by Peregrino
Doesn't seem terribly accurate. I wonder if it's possible to pre-ionize a path to overcome the resistance of the "air gap", without having to use a wire (e.g. TASER), so it could be aimed.
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I do not know enough about it yet to say one way or another. However, challenge accepted.
I have had a discussion in the past with friends far more intelligent than I, about the feasibility of using lasers with projectiles of certian metalurgical properties to change the atmospere around them to artificially change atmosphere for ballistic applications.
I suppose it could be applied here. I see the tesla coils could be used for more of a psychological weapon. A lighteningvolt "flamethrower" on the battlefield would be terrifying to those who witness it.
At the end of the day, our shortage is making lots of power in small packages. We need more development there.
With highpower lasers, overpenatration is also a huge problem to solve for weapons application on killing power and anti-armor.
It sparked the image in me of using rail, laser or coil guns where the capacitor would one day be the ejecting "cartridge case". With the direction of technologies, I would see that as our first practical application. We one day will be ejecting batteries and not brass.