| We are now designing high-energy airborne lasers | | | | As long as we have chemical lasers onboard we |
| small enough to put into fighter aircraft. The device | | | | might also think about using the chemical gas lasers |
| would be the size of a large refrigerator laid on its | | | | to create mini-tornadoes or eddies above the wings |
| side. This will help us when we go to war with China, | | | | to increase lift. If we store the gas in the outer |
| because they have 8000 plus fighter aircraft and we | | | | wings of the aircraft they will stay cool due to the |
| have maybe 500 or less. So in other words we will | | | | ambient air at altitude. Storing the gas in the fuselage |
| not have enough missiles to shoot them all down. So | | | | may be problematic due to the heat of the engines, |
| having on board lasers is a good idea. But if we are | | | | as the gases are volatile and we do not wish to use |
| using chemical lasers we will need places to store | | | | aircraft or UAVs to accidents unnecessarily. We also |
| compressed gases that will be used for the lasers, | | | | need to consider complete expenditure of these |
| such as Argon or CO2. Yet in most fighters we have | | | | gases while airborne because one rough landing |
| limited space for such storage and if we use drop | | | | aboard the Aircraft Carrier and the whole thing could |
| tanks that will take away our ability to maintain | | | | go up. After all we are just now being able to trust |
| stealth in the battlespace, so we need to think about | | | | our UAVs to land on the ship with their arresting gear |
| putting these tanks inside the wings of the aircraft. | | | | out. So we need to be thinking here. |