U.S. Army weapon shoots lightning bolts down laser beams

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Thought that title might get your attention, but shooting lightning bolts down laser beams is just what a device being developed at the Picatinny Arsenal military research facility in New Jersey is designed to do. Known as a Laser-Induced Plasma Channel, or LIPC, the device would fry targets that conduct electricity better that the air or ground that surrounds them by steering lightning bolts down a plasma pathway created by laser beams... Continue Reading U.S. Army weapon shoots lightning bolts down laser beams

Section: Military

Tags: Electricity, Laser, Laser weapon, Lightning, Military, Plasma, US Army

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