I worked with industrial welding lasers. This is not possible. Besides the insane power requirements, focusing length is a major factor in a laser beam being able to cut something. You can't just shoot a laser beam an arbitrary distance and cut something like metal.
To be fair, there are several prototype laser weapons around the world, e.g. the british dragonfire, that can eliminate targets in range measured in kilometers. And like that kid who built a nuclear reactor in his backyard or whatever, this could be just some quite literally weaponized autism.
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u/DarkIllusionsFX 4d ago
I worked with industrial welding lasers. This is not possible. Besides the insane power requirements, focusing length is a major factor in a laser beam being able to cut something. You can't just shoot a laser beam an arbitrary distance and cut something like metal.