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Nope: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon#Distance_to_the_horizon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon#Distance_to_the_horizon

• adventured 13y ago
  Yep. Depends on where the laser is fired from, and it depends on the target. Lasers can absolutely fire 300 to 600 km.
  • UnoriginalGuy 13y ago
    The article and my post are about deploying lasers to ships. You're talking about aircraft. Ships are limited to the horizon.
  • anigbrowl 13y ago
    That's not much help if you're in a ship, where a) you'll be close to sea level and b) incoming missiles etc. will be flying low to avoid radar, rather than high up in the air where they can be convenient targets. Lasers can fire all the way to the moon, and it might be a great idea to put military ones on top of mountains one day, depending on the weather, but if we're talking about lasers on ships...the USS Nimitz (the largest aircraft carrier class) has a height of about 36m above the waterline, so the distance to the horizon is something like 20km or ~13 miles.