This is the Nautilus laser, an early energy weapon designed to shoot down incoming artillery rounds. Laser guns are finally moving from the laboratory to the real world. But they are hardly the super-weapons of science fiction.

This is the Nautilus laser, an early energy weapon designed to shoot down incoming artillery rounds. Laser guns are finally moving from the laboratory to the real world. But they are hardly the super-weapons of science fiction.

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    Honestly, I just really appreciate that they called it the Nautilus.
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    Wrote a paper on these at uni and...don’t really work at all.
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    The article talks about all these lasers that are kinda meh and got shit canned, and which didn’t seem to live up to...