laser weapons
Directed energy guns
Laser weapons are devices that use concentrated beams of light to damage or destroy targets.
Military applications include anti-drone systems and missile defense.
The term covers both functional military hardware and the ray guns of science fiction: The rebels fired their laser weapons at the imperial cruiser.
Sometimes shortened to lasers.
- missile defenseSystem intercepting hostile projectiles
- Geneva ConventionsWartime humanitarian treaties
- armamentCollective military weapons
- dazzlerOne that impresses greatly
- ablationRemoval by cutting, melting
directed energy · cooling system · weaponization · military research · collateral damage · Star Wars program · target acquisition · speed of light · power amplifier · naval defense · pulse · satellite · sci-fi · phaser · futuristic · plasma · Death Star · zap
- Space RPGstarships, space travel, aliens, planets, interstellar travel
- weaponsknife, gun, sword, swords, rifle
- space operaStar Wars, Star Trek, Dune, hyperspace, lightsaber
- Laserscoherence, cavity resonator, LASIK, maser
- Weaponryrifles, shotguns, grenades, missiles, bombs
- defense researchDARPA, defense research, military research, defense technology, naval research
damage mechanism
laser weaponsprojectile weapons
Weapons launching objects afar
bullets · firearms · guns · conventional weapons · artillery