Artistic Forces/Laser

A laser (LASER - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) is a device that emits a concentrated/focused beam of light, which has high energy-intensity, through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation.

A rather new type of weapon system uses laser beams as a direct-energy based projectile against specific targets. Since laser beams travel at the speed of light they are almost impossible to dodge, unlike conventional ballistics; furthermore they are extremely precise. A current weakness is their limited range, as the crucial heat energy needed to deliver damage dissipates quite quickly over distance, and also the large amount of power needed to work.

American laser
The U.S. Armed Forces have tested experimental lasers as their weapons for years ever since it was nationally invented by the late Charles Townes, who shared the 1964 Nobel prize in physics for the invention of the laser. THEL (Tactical High Energy Laser) and AN/SEQ-3 Laser Weapon System are the prime examples of American laser weapons in their arsenal. An American military, civil, and governmental coalition known as the United States Defense Alliance (or U.S.D.A) has officially adopted this kind of laser for their energy-based or direct-energy weapons. While shooting, it glows red instead. However, lasers of a lesser intensity have proven their practicality and worth in the field of anti-missile countermeasures for vehicles, aircraft, and vessels alike.

Examples

 * Field Trooper
 * Laser Humvee
 * Laser Tank
 * Laser Avenger
 * Laser Stryker
 * MTHELS (Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser System)
 * Laser Copter
 * San Antonio ATD
 * Point Defense Lasers
 * Laser Cannon
 * AA Laser Turret
 * THELS (Tactical High Energy Laser System)
 * Satellite Laser Beam Strike

Eurolaser
For years, Europeans have invented and experimented different kinds of laser technologies. These include the European Union's High Power laser Energy Research facility (HiPER), Czechia's Asterix IV laser, France's Laser Mégajoule (LMJ) and LULI2000, Russia's ISKRA lasers, and Great Britain's Vulcan laser. However, these are not tested as weapons yet. Many years later, Eurolaser makes the first laser weapon in Europe, and later adopted by the European Superior Union as their direct-energy weapon. In order to test this energy-based weapon, it functionally glows blue.

Examples

 * Eurolaser Trooper
 * Eurolaser AFV
 * Eurolaser Tank
 * Eurolaser Heli
 * Eurolaser Turret

GEKKO XII Laser
First tested in the Osaka University's Institute for Laser Engineering (大阪大学レーザーエネルギー学研究センター) and completed in the year 1983, the GEKKO XII Laser (激光XII号レーザー) is a high-power, 12-beam, neodymium-doped glass laser, with its name referring to the twelve individual beamlines used to amplify the laser energy.

Unlike most other modern ICF lasers, which are frequency tripled to the third harmonic, the GEKKO XII is only frequency doubled to 532 nm of green light instead of any color. Compared to most glass laser ICF experiments, GEKKO is also quite small, with beamlines about 10 m long. The 12 beams of the GEKKO laser are capable of delivering about 10 kilojoules per 1–2 ns pulse (10–20 terawatts).

From 1996 to 1997 the GEKKO system was upgraded with a ~0.4 kJ, 0.5 PW ultra-short pulse beam which was used to investigate a promising new technique of ICF known as "fast ignition", where the compression phase of target implosion is decoupled from the heating phase. GEKKO, using the petawatt beam for heating, along with the original beams for compression, demonstrated a fusion yield enhancement of 3 orders of magnitude when the petawatt beam was used.

GEKKO is currently being upgraded with the addition of a second "side-by-side" laser, the LFEX (Laser for Fast Ignition Experiment), part of the FIREX-1 program, in order to deliver a 10 kJ pulse of energy to a target in 10 picoseconds, further exploring the fast ignition regime.

For future use, the Rising Sun Self-Defense Force, a joint, defense-oriented organization between Japanese Ground, Maritime and Air Self-Defense Forces, technologically emphasize this for their arsenal of energy-based weapons to fend off invaders and other global threats in the world as well as their island country.

Examples

 * GEKKO XII Laser Soldier
 * Zone Samurai
 * Zone Ashigaru
 * Zone Tengu
 * Nacchin (Melee and Laser Gun Loadouts)
 * Zone Sohei
 * Zone Onna-Musha
 * Zone Ronin
 * Zone Kyudoka
 * Kyojin-Oh
 * Juhojin
 * Zone Ninja
 * Zone Kunoichi
 * Tsunami Mecha Tank
 * Mecha Kaiju
 * Subarashi X
 * GEKKO XII Truck
 * GEKKO XII Laser Tank
 * XX-Shiki AA Truck
 * Laser Gun Truck
 * Subaru Gunship
 * Akaei
 * Tobiuo
 * Itachizame Destroyer
 * Tatsujin Cruiser
 * GEKKO XII Laser Turret
 * GEKKO XII Laser Cannon Uplink

GIA Laser
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