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Recoil of heavy guns can be nasty. Once, a driver of one of our M-113 forgot the breaks, and when the 120 mm mortar mounted in the back fired, the APC ended up in a shack nearby.
QUOTE (WearzManySkins @ Mar 24 2008, 08:02 PM) 
Well hate to rain on your parade, but the steam will keep the laser from penetrating that deep. That is why in Surgical use of YAG/Dye lasers their is a device called a smoke evacuator.
You would get surface steam explosions but no deep penetration. Also the cutting edge in todays lasers is not solid state, more along the lines of very toxic chemicals.
WMS
You would get surface steam explosions but no deep penetration. Also the cutting edge in todays lasers is not solid state, more along the lines of very toxic chemicals.
WMS
You are right about the low penetration. You will get a shallow, relatively wide crater. What I don't know is how large the burn radius would be, since the steam couldn't possibly carry off all the heat. You may well have a 1" explosive wound with a 6" burn radius around it.
Comparing surgical lasers to military lasers is like guessing the effects of a sword from watching a scalpel in use. Surgical lasers use the minimum necessary power at just the right frequency to minimize tissue damage. Battle lasers use as much power as possible at just the right frequency to maximize tissue damage.
10 minutes with Google leaves me with no more hard facts about laser injuries, other than eye injuries. Any links would be welcome (and yes, I have already seen that Rick Astley video...
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QUOTE (Ed_209a @ Mar 25 2008, 07:59 AM)
You are right about the low penetration. You will get a shallow, relatively wide crater. What I don't know is how large the burn radius would be, since the steam couldn't possibly carry off all the heat. You may well have a 1" explosive wound with a 6" burn radius around it.
Comparing surgical lasers to military lasers is like guessing the effects of a sword from watching a scalpel in use. Surgical lasers use the minimum necessary power at just the right frequency to minimize tissue damage. Battle lasers use as much power as possible at just the right frequency to maximize tissue damage.
10 minutes with Google leaves me with no more hard facts about laser injuries, other than eye injuries. Any links would be welcome (and yes, I have already seen that Rick Astley video... )
Comparing surgical lasers to military lasers is like guessing the effects of a sword from watching a scalpel in use. Surgical lasers use the minimum necessary power at just the right frequency to minimize tissue damage. Battle lasers use as much power as possible at just the right frequency to maximize tissue damage.
10 minutes with Google leaves me with no more hard facts about laser injuries, other than eye injuries. Any links would be welcome (and yes, I have already seen that Rick Astley video...
)No a surgeon's scalpel and a sword both use the same cutting technology.
As for surgical lasers using minimum power,
not in any of my hospitals. Most surgical lasers have more power than they need, the surgeon's are like Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor, ie "More Power".Weapons grade lasers are not solid state, but again use combination's of caustic/toxic chemicals or other nice things.
Links
Directed Energy Weapons Wiki
Deuterium Fluoride Laser
THEL
Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser
THEL
Laser Beam Rifle
Again most of the above links use chemical lasers.
Any real information on Weapons Laser damaging tissue will not be found on Google, my guess it would military research, and not put on the web where Google bots can find it.
WMS
Yeah, so far as I know no ones been uhm... shot with a weaponized laser (except in the eyes as already mentioned). I remember seeing a video some years ago where a guy was using a portable laser to cut into a steak, not very impressive.
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WMS, your links aren't working.
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