The UK Has A Laser Weapon?!

[Anyanka Bunny Slayer]

What?! This is certainly news to me. What are they doing with a potential Death Star-like weapon? Aren't these people supposed to be drinking tea and putting beans on their toast?

If you ask me, they're getting kind of uppity and might become a problem. 😄

Advanced future military laser achieves UK first

A military laser which could boost the UK Armed Forces with greater accuracy while reducing the reliance on high-cost ammunition has reached its next milestone.

www.gov.uk

 

[TheXandyman]

Just Stop Oil is the first target.

'Try stopping this'.

 

[Anyanka Bunny Slayer]

That would solve a lot of problems. 🔥

 

[NotASlayer]

 

[Skanky Vamp]

Any word on if they plan to attach the fricking laser beams to sharks heads?

 

[Anyanka Bunny Slayer]

If the UK has a laser weapon, you can only imagine what the US has. 😳

 

[HowiMetdaSlayer]

Dragon fire would be more apt name if it was attached to a plane 😉

 

[Anyanka Bunny Slayer]

I want a laser!!! I must have a laser!

 

[thetopher]

Apparently it's £10 a shot when it comes to shooting down a drone. Cheaper than doing it by the missile.

 

[Anyanka Bunny Slayer]

 

[Skanky Vamp]

Apparently it's £10 a shot

but how much does the shot glass cost and how many of them would you need to make a difference.

 

[Stake fodder]

Apparently it's £10 a shot when it comes to shooting down a drone. Cheaper than doing it by the missile.

I was impressed with that stat. I bet the US military never prices out the item cost of weaponry!

 

[ILLYRIAN]

All the chatter that went on and on about there being a laser capable satellite, that like this is probably a load of twoddle cos if it was true would there still be a Putin?

 

[NotASlayer]

All the chatter that went on and on about there being a laser capable satellite, that like this is probably a load of twoddle cos if it was true would there still be a Putin?

We are also in the early stages of building an orbital death ray solar panel farm in space:

Oxfordshire: Space solar farm could be operational by 2035, firm says

Harwell-based Space Solar is designing a 2km-long array which would orbit 36,000km above earth.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[NotASlayer]

Apparently it's £10 a shot when it comes to shooting down a drone. Cheaper than doing it by the missile.

Cheaper than it would have been for me to order cookie dough or doughnuts delivered last night!

 

[thetopher]

We are also in the early stages of building an orbital death ray solar panel farm in space:

That's what this 'green initiative' thing is really bout; a smoke screen for world domination!

Rishi Sunak (at the UN): "Now witness the firepower of our fully armed and operational solar farm!"


...Actually I could never imagine current PM doing that, at this last minute we elect Tom Hiddleston to go full Loki on the entire security council.

 

[NotASlayer]

That's what this 'green initiative' thing is really bout; a smoke screen for world domination!

Rishi Sunak (at the UN): "Now witness the firepower of our fully armed and operational solar farm!"


...Actually I could never imagine current PM doing that, at this last minute we elect Tom Hiddleston to go full Loki on the entire security council.

Solar energy from space is supplied to the ground by directing a beam of energy at the ground. An orbital death ray just has a much more powerful beam of energy.

 

[NotASlayer]

@TheXandyman Well, it would more likely be microwave energy than a laser. So, that would be okay then?

 

[Anyanka Bunny Slayer]

Rishi Sunak (at the UN): "Now witness the firepower of our fully armed and operational solar farm!"

😅😅😅

Lloyd Austin (US Secretary of Defense): "America has always treasured our special relationship with the United Kingdom. However, if we even suspect that their 'solar farms' pose a threat to the American way of life, they will be dealt with."

 

[NotASlayer]

"Our first test of our solar power farm was a success."