Comments on: Boeing Tests IED Blasting Laser

By: Frank Citizen

Frank Citizen — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:34:05 +0000

Lazer serial numbers and lazer control…“You Can Have My Lazer When You Pry It From My Cold Dead Hands!” Wonder if the Second Amendment covers that?

By: JCitizen

JCitizen — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:31:27 +0000

Shoot, I saw a guy on UTube shooting a laser toy made out of a toy phaser that turned out NOT to be a toy. The blue laser he used could burn through almost anything and he was using it to pop balloons just to show how easy it was to aim and destroy his targets.

Needless to say this tech IS cheaper now, and pretty dangerous. I’m more afraid of these lasers than a hand grenade or a should fired rocket! They could definitely blow your eyeball out a 200 meters! Maybe more!

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:30:56 +0000

Guys you are all missing the point about this weapon. You are all going on about ied’s and the cost implications thereof. This weapon is actually quite brilliant. Remember this weapon will get better and cheaper and more powerful with every new generation. The Wright brother’s first flight was only a few feet. now planes fly around the world as if it is nothing. Keep watching this this will be awesome.In the end it will be money well spent.

By: chem nco

chem nco — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:49:31 +0000

hum all these high price toys to knock out ied’s that are easy to make and only takes one person to place and need i say cheap to make… no wander they kicked to sovets ass and probly will ours before it is over with or at least they will strave us all to death…keep’em coming boys while the bank takes my home and my children are getting hungray…how much does one of these things cost? more than some vx or even one nuke ? now there are two good ideals on winning two wars..

By: roland

roland — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:34:00 +0000

If this is a battery powered IED BLASTER LASER, how about a solar powered IED BLASTER LASER next time and maybe add more blast like that of Star Wars movie.

By: pete

pete — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:21:26 +0000

Are you a genuine serving EOD guy? I would love to speak to you if you have the time. Lanc50@hotmail.com is my e-mail. I have a proposal that I want to submit to JIEDDO, it would be good to get your opinion.

regards

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:14:46 +0000

I think the the more devices we use against these hidden bombs the better. Look if it just fizzles the IED without an earth shattering explosion the lesser chance of injuries from mach 10 flying debris. I’m not there and I don’t want to be an armchair warrior but leave it up to the operators of this weapon to make it work. The troops are doing a helluva job. I hope one day this shit will come to a close.

By: Frank Citizen

Frank Citizen — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:26:48 +0000

I think the real test will be when it is actually placed in the feild and we have some significant data to look at…there have been many weapons in the past that have been scoffed hat that later on turned out to be the turn of the war. i.e. PT boats were considered of no real vaule until WWII; Richard Goddard the father of liquid fuel rockets was laughed at bynthe the U.S. War Dept. because they believed the rocket had not practicle military value; Lt Col Billy Mitchell lost his career for going up aginst the U.S. Army for stating that Air Power would one day be more superior than ground forces…

Time will tell if this thing has value…so until then..STFU AH!

Frank Citizen

By: Donald

Donald — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:41:55 +0000

well Mike you can only carry so much of it, where as the laser it just runs off the battery, to bad this wasn’t like video games where you have like a code for unlimited ammo

By: ohge

ohge — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:55:03 +0000

If this thing doesn’t make “pew pew” noises while you’re firing it, then consider it worthless to all EOD Techs worldwide.

By: eodguy72

eodguy72 — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:34:36 +0000

I am an EOD tech that has used lasers against IED’s and while they can be effective in certain limited situations they will never replace a trained tech.

By: daniel

daniel — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:08:27 +0000

where did you learn how to spell?

By: daniel

daniel — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:07:05 +0000

you dont know what your talking about

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:43:25 +0000

Combining the use of the unmanned aerial system and in-flight refueling [IFR] will greatly increase this nations ability to counter the IED. No one technology will work with this low cost weapon that is now used so efficiently against our troops in harms way. When we put troops outside the wire a UAS should have been in the air days before surveying the bad lands. 24/7 UAS coverage using IFR is just around the corner I know I have been working the problem to allow for IFR below 120 knots for class III and IV unmanned aerial systems.

By: mike j

mike j — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:46:47 +0000

The easiest way to counter IEDs is to not get into these stupid situations in the first place, but maybe that’s so obvious that it shouldn’t be said. There’s no excuse for OEF and OIF being so poorly planned and under-resourced.

Now that we’re in it, fund the tech if it works to help the troops do their job. If that means putting other expensive projects on the back burner, too bad.

By: William C.

William C. — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:13:20 +0000

Industrial lasers have been cutting through steel and metals for years now. We can certainly develop a laser for the Avenger that can burn through a bag of potato chips. You have to start somewhere.

By: berf

berf — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:27:34 +0000

How effective would a sheet of mylar (potato chip bag) be in defeating a laser aimed at an IED? For that matter, how about 1 inch of sand/dirt/gravel ??

By: Mat

Mat — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:43:13 +0000

Plain stupid if you ask me ‚for now not a single tactical laser weapon is even close to usefoul, it takes forever to burn trough someting that a high calibre round would do in fractions of a second,while consuming enough energy to power a small town and costing more than a tomahawk per target.That ATL gunship war the worst of all flying around in circles trying to peel paint off a parked truck hood ‚while .50 or 20mm would blow the engine aprat without much fuss. That is the bigest problem of US forces that they throm money at the probem an think it will just go away. I have to say that i have more respect for Taliban every day as all they have to do is to drag this on and US forces will break the bank.Russian must be lafing their asses off right now and rightly so as US made these taliban what they are now.

By: Edmund Redsecker

Edmund Redsecker — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:01:54 +0000

My understanding is that locating the burried IED is the greater problem! Small unit ground penatrating SONAR units are being looked at that will give our commbatents a great enough margin of safety to locate such devices before the radial explosive ambush can be sprung.

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:55:13 +0000

I agree with Jeff. I’m sure we all know that IED is a general term and there is no single answer to taking them out. There are a plethora of uses for laser technology. IEDs are only one, albeit terrible threat to our troops. Laser R&D is what appears to be the next major technological advance to protect our and others freedom. My hope is that Obama doesn’t realize that it can be used as a weapon for Real Americans and cancel development.