Die Dye Dye you commy bastards....

[mixedgas]

Looks like liquid lasers are back, but you can bet this one is a rare earth salt, not a dye.

http://www.darpa.mil/tto/programs/hellads.htm

1 kilowatt demonstrator, 150 Kw goal, direct diode pumped....

The flowing lasant gets the heat out.

ummmm, photonz

Steve

[buffo]

Pitty they couldn't work the letter "Y" into the acronym... Then instead of it being called "HELLADS" it could be "HELLYADS!" (as in, Hell Yeah!)

Adam

[The_Doctor]

Well, if the area it defends is wide enough, with a laser strong enough, (or they have serious delusions of grandeur), they could gratuitously squeeze the word Yotta in there. But given what Yotta means, it would take some squeezing.

[heroic]

Well, if the area it defends is wide enough, with a laser strong enough, (or they have serious delusions of grandeur), they could gratuitously squeeze the word Yotta in there. But given what Yotta means, it would take some squeezing.

I have seen DARPA propose half-serious grazing-incidence-mirror ring GRASERs pumped by exploding hydrogen bombs.

I daresay "yotta" is a lot closer to DARPA's scale than most people's. :-)