50kW directed energy weapons!
now all we need is a mech to carry it!
QuoteRheinmetall has successfully tested its new 50kW high-energy weapon technology demonstrator. Conducted at the end of November, the test encompassed the entire operational sequence from target detection and tracking to target engagement. Building on a 123-year heritage, the Düsseldorf, Germany-based Group has once again made good its claim to be the global leader in high-energy laser (HEL) technology.
The test was conducted at Rheinmetall's Ochsenboden Proving Groud (EZO) in Switzerland, in snowy conditions and blinding sunlight, and was initially supposed to show the increase in efficiency of the 50kW HEL weapon compared with the 10kW version demonstrated last year. A five-fold increase in laser power was thus available for the individual scenarios, which included Air Defence, Counter Rocket, Artillery, Mortar/C-RAM, and Asymmetric Warfare operations. Furthermore, the tests were intended to prove that separately located HEL weapon stations using Rheinmetall's existing Beam Superimposing Technology (BST) are able to irradiate a single target in a superimposed, cumulative manner. This modular technology approach makes it possible to maintain the very good beam quality of the individual laser modules, increasing overall performance several times over. Thus, from the technical stand-point, nothing stands in the way of a future HEL weapon system with a 100kW output.
full article:
http://www.rheinmetall-defence.de/en/rheinmetall_defence/public_relations/news/latest_news/details_2368.php
Great, now all we need is a zeppelin to fly it to the moon!
The engineers where I work would soil there undies upon seeing that. Leave it to the Germans.
We could hold the world for ransom for.......
Quote from: Longdan on December 21, 2012, 08:17:27 PM
We could hold the world for ransom for.......
...lashings of Ginger Beer!
Quote from: Longdan on December 21, 2012, 08:17:27 PM
We could hold the world for ransom for.......
Cooking lessons and a national dish that doesn't consist of boiled pig parts?
Not sure if I really want to know this geek, ol' chum......but, which pig parts did you have in mind...specifically?
Bacon!
No, I was worried in case he had something more...extreme.......in mind.
They curly leetle tails p'haps?
or de blunt tings on de end o der leggies.......or worse......de snout!
Mmmmm...
Lookin' mighty tasty:
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Nooooooooo..............
Had a classmate in college who worked in the slaughter yards in Pittsburgh to cover tuition.
He told me that the snouts were the best tasting part of the pig, and as a perk of the job, there was always a pot of water boiling away on a hotplate. There were alwasy a few snouts in there for the crew to have something good to munch on.
were they kosher?
The pigs?
The snouts?
Or the knacker men? (They wouldn't taste very good.)
Pigs are very smart.
I once worked in a pig barn.
They have beady eyes.
From the movie Snatch
Quote
Brick Top: You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together.
Sol: Would someone mind telling me, who are you?
Brick Top: And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".
Vinny: Well, thank you for that. That's a great weight off me mind. Now, if you wouldn't mind telling me who the f--- you are, apart from someone who feeds people to pigs of course?
Awesome film!
Bob - it was hard to tell what was on the plate just a lot of boiled pigskin and pork fat - its just the worst country to go for culinary delights! Back to the old english, french, italian and german joke I suppose
Now my dad, born and bred yorkshireman will eat anything, literally! He loves pig trotters in a stew, I always joked if he could get away with it he would eat those fried pigs ears you can get for dogs, and there is crap from the sea with untold tentacles and suckers on he would eat
Howay man Geek. Slithery things from the deep have the same effect on me as spiders do to some of our Grog bretheren - tenticles and suckers...shudder!
I don't mean that some of Grog bretheren have tenticles and suckers, btw.
....although they might have for all we know.
lol Bob, mum and i joke theres a dish somewhere called 'Merd du Mer' that Dad would tuck in to.
See the seagulls behind the trawlers? when they swoop down behind the boat for the catch and stuff looks up at them with eyes and tentacles and wobbly junk all over the place and the gulls fly off thinking f*** that - yeah thats what dad will have with some tomatoes and a bit of salad!
Well, I don't want to eat anything that has more arms than I have fingers, or looks back at you when you're drying to work out which bits to cut off first, even if it has got a tomato on its head and is lurking under a letuice leaf.
well can it wonder.
After all it took the germans to make the M1 abrams into what it is today ;D
Bob, be careful of what you say in making fun of the endowed Groginati.
As we all know, the Great Old Ones dreaming in R'lyeh touch everything through those dreams.
That's the only way I can explain some of the games that have come down the pike. Describing them makes you more, well - tangible? (Mrs. Bob could become green with envy at the GLOIINNGG moments they deliver.)
^You're right - who knows what horrors could be visited on me during those moments I dare nod off. The frying-pan is a strong insomnia inducing device. I now see that she may be an instument of the tenticled one.
Quote from: bob48 on December 23, 2012, 09:40:09 AM
^You're right - who knows what horrors could be visited on me during those moments I dare nod off. The frying-pan is a strong insomnia inducing device. I now see that she may be an instument of the tenticled one.
i would have thought a good GLOINGGGGG to the back of the head was the perfect cure for insomnia
How did this thread get so...Anglo-Saxon?
Quote from: Gusington on December 23, 2012, 11:27:06 AM
How did this thread get so...Anglo-Saxon?
i think the song goes something like ''2 world wars and 1 world cup...........'' but i dont remember the rest
Goy, I'm telling yew...
Dem Chermans do tech things so good, they are so mensch!
But stories? Yew wants to read tings like Not So Great Expectations or mebbe, A House so Bleak it vill make yew cry.
Yew vants to chew dat? Cum on over, ve're having Gefilte for suppah.
Quote from: undercovergeek on December 23, 2012, 12:20:31 PM
Quote from: Gusington on December 23, 2012, 11:27:06 AM
How did this thread get so...Anglo-Saxon?
i think the song goes something like ''2 world wars and 1 world cup...........'' but i dont remember the rest
I think the immortal words 'Doo-dah, doo-dah' figured in there somewhere. It had a catchy tune though Geek.
Quote from: undercovergeek on December 22, 2012, 04:34:07 AM
Quote from: Longdan on December 21, 2012, 08:17:27 PM
We could hold the world for ransom for.......
Cooking lessons and a national dish that doesn't consist of boiled pig parts?
You've clearly lived in the wrong parts of Germania. I'll start with Wiener Schnizel and leave it with that.
Gefilte fish is vile.
Quote from: LongBlade on December 23, 2012, 04:14:40 PM
Quote from: undercovergeek on December 22, 2012, 04:34:07 AM
Quote from: Longdan on December 21, 2012, 08:17:27 PM
We could hold the world for ransom for.......
Cooking lessons and a national dish that doesn't consist of boiled pig parts?
You've clearly lived in the wrong parts of Germania. I'll start with Wiener Schnizel and leave it with that.
i spend too much time working in berlin, frankfurt, munich, dussledorf and hamburg! Schnizel doesnt count - its a Findus Crispy Pancake with meat in the middle - thats no culinary feast to show to your tourists!
Quote from: Gusington on December 23, 2012, 05:30:27 PM
Gefilte fish is vile.
quoted for truth!!!
this is why Jewish ethnic food is Chinese take out.
^Wurd bro. WURD.