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Comment by chadd

Thanks for compiling this.

"A 100 to 300 kW beam has perhaps one to three seconds of dwell on a hardened, ablating, plasma-shrouded glide body. That is orders of magnitude short of the joules per square centimetre needed for a thermal kill."

- wondering if you can elaborate more on whether a laser energy-based device would ever be able to have enough power to stop one of these?

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