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Old 08-04-2017, 10:13 AM
cosmicfish cosmicfish is offline
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ALON won't work. Optical extinction is down around 0.075/cm in the 1-2 um range (the best IR or visible case for this material), which means that for a 2" thickness you would be dumping about 30% of the laser energy into the material. That would be catastrophic for any kind of laser weapon even though you could see through it.

There is no real material that is both a good armor material AND optically clear at a useful wavelength. I would suggest just using turrets or firing ports, but you could always just handwave a new miracle material if you really want to do this - just don't try to pretend it is a real material.
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