Are there any laser or enery weapons out there already employed on the battlefield?

Answer 1

Yes. The most simplified and widely used version is the one you heard about on the news about a mob supression system.

They are used widely in defensive countermeasures such as confusing a seeker warhead or on a satellite destroying ICBM's.

As for weapons deployed in Iraq the answer is no. The latest laser system deployed to Iraq was the Northrop Grumman's Tatical High Energy Laser System. But again this is only a defensive countermeasure.

There are a few more lesser known systems but most of them are still in the development stage.

Answer 2

Not of the type you seem to mean. Already mentioned are sound used to disorient crowds and one which causes a sensation of heat or burning. Developed as non lethal weapons largely for crowd control. The one closest to deployment if not canceled by Congress is the Airborne Laser. This is a large chemical laser to be mounted in a 747. It would be used to target tactical missles on the battlefeild.
Ground based tests were done a few years ago and flight testing was to start about 2 yr. ago.

Answer 3

Actually the Japanese military already made a death ray back during world war 2. In theory it would kill an enemy by using high powered microwave radiation and while it did manage to kill a few small creatures like rabbits in a laboratory It required far too much energy to kill a human being with it at any kind of distance.

Right now the most lasers and energy weapons and can do is irritate the hell out of enemy soldiers or confuse the guidance systems in bombs or missles.

Answer 4

Not as a weapon. The energy needed to create an effective laser requires a large laser that would need to be housed on land as a structure or on a very large ship. Even then, the laser would require several seconds to penetrate the steel of an object. There is the heat weapon which simulates heat on a body for crowd control purposes.

Answer 5

i'm valuable if transportable lasers substitute into efficient adequate, the government will start up regulating them thus. And gun rights human beings will protest. there'll probable be some compromise reminiscent of what exists now. Lasers of a undeniable ability would be allowed. each and each "shot" might have a defined length of time for each push of the button, and so on.

Answer 6

yes

Answer 7

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6297149.stm

Close to what your asking about I think, don't know if they're usin em yet though

Answer 8

if I tell you I will have to kill you