that is scary stuff. wonder what the range is and how it will be used and on what, the cops wil probably use it on speeding motorists if they get one,tee hee
Range of these weapons is quite complicated, there is always a bit of divergence of the rays, scatter off particles, reflection off water vapour and absorption in gases. In the vacuum of space the only significant limit to range is the divergence.
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There is another topic about this somewhere. The technology isn't complicated. They tried it for shooting down satelites (read ballistic missiles) but missed the satelite and released a metre wide beam of 8 seconds duration of massive energy into space which will carry on forever at the speed of light until it hits something (hopefully an asteriod and not something belonging to a race more intelligent than us!)