For example: laser rifles or pistols, anything that shoots out concussive energy that you see in sci-fi shooter games. This is obviously in the realm of science fiction but I can’t imagine that kind of technology is impossible to come by. With those weapons they can probably hold up to hundreds of rounds worth of energy/plasma/etc.
What would be the main roadblock with this kind of weaponry?
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Concussive? We have nothing that does that. We don’t know how to move kinetic energy around without just applying it to an object and then letting the object apply it to the target when it gets there. Which we do with projectiles of many kinds.
As far as directed energy weapons like microwaves or lasers: those weapons absolutely could not hold a bunch of shots with our tech. It takes a LOT of energy to weaponize and we’re having trouble producing a sustainable amount in something the size of a tank, forget handheld. We just don’t have the energy storage/generation tech to support that.
Now, the equipment to take that power and emit it in a useful, coherent form at weaponized levels is also very bulky compared to something handheld but the power supply is the current big issue in trying to being light vehicles scale version to the field so that will have to be solved before we get into the emitter as a limiting factor.
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