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In lugnet.build.mecha, Paul Baulch writes:
> Anyway, I think laser beams would attenuate pretty quickly in a
> not-very-transparent medium like seawater. A supercavitating bullet
> travelling at Mach 3? No problem ;-)
Seawater is moreor-less transparent to a properly tuned blue/green lasers, so
there would be little/no attenuation. No moving parts to corrode in the
saltwater, and no ejection ports to get gummed up by oceanic detritus.
--Karim
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| (...) Nope. It is somewhat translucent to it, to a range of somewhat less than 500 ft. Otherwise, why do you think that we still work with SONAR for detection of subs? James (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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| Karim Nassar wrote in message ... (...) so (...) Well, the feasibility of each method may or may not be superior to the other, but I think that my supercavitating-bullets idea was a whole lot sexier. Lasers? Whoopee-doo ;-) Cheers, Paul LUGNET (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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| Mark Sandlin wrote in message ... (...) exercise (...) Well, yes, but I'd thought you'd want to find out what supercavitation was all by yourself ;-) (...) Really? I thought that it was considered appropriate to spend an extra trillion on a weapon, (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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