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2. List of Star Wars weapons - Wikipedia

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   Directed-energy weapons (DEW) figure prominently in the Star Wars franchise, with the most common type referred to as lasers or blasters.The in-universe description for how these weapons function is that a high-energy gas is charged by a power cell and converted into plasma, which is fired as a coherent energy bolt at the enemy via magnetic bottle effect.

3. Laser weapon - Wikipedia

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   Spreading the beam across a large, curved mirror that focuses the power on the target, to keep energy density en route too low for blooming to happen. This requires a large, very precise, fragile mirror, mounted somewhat like a searchlight, requiring bulky machinery to slew the mirror to aim the laser. Using a phased array.

4. Industrial Light & Magic - Wikipedia

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   Star Wars (Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope) George Lucas: 20th Century Fox Lucasfilm Ltd. $11 million $775.5 million 1980 The Empire Strikes Back (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back) Irvin Kershner: $33 million $547.9 million 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark) Steven Spielberg: Paramount ...

5. Zenith Star - Wikipedia

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   The Zenith Star program was a key component of President Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), popularly known as "Star Wars," which aimed to create a space-based ballistic missile defense system. Initiated in the mid-1980s, Zenith Star represented an ambitious attempt to develop and deploy a chemical laser weapon in space.

6. Strategic Defense Initiative - Wikipedia

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   SDI was not just lasers; in this Kinetic Energy Weapon test, a 0.25-ounce (7 g) Lexan projectile was fired from a light-gas gun at a velocity of 23,000 feet per second (7,000 m/s; 16,000 mph) at a cast aluminum block. Historians from the Missile Defense Agency attribute the term "Star Wars" to a Washington Post article published March 24, 1983.

7. Secret Wars (toy line) - Wikipedia

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   Turbo Cycle - A blue over white fuselage, translucent blue windshield and cockpit, and red plastic sidecar seat, air intake, and lasers. It was detailed with a large "TURBO" sticker on the left side of the sidecar and a red, white, and blue Captain America shield sticker on the nose of the pod.

8. Directed-energy weapon - Wikipedia

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   The E-Bomb: How America's New Directed Energy Weapons Will Change the Way Future Wars Will Be Fought. Doug Beason (2005). ISBN 0-306-81402-1. US claims that China has used high-energy lasers to interfere with US satellites: Jane's Defence Weekly, 18 October 2006; China jamming test sparks U.S. satellite concerns: USA Today

9. TIE fighter - Wikipedia

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   A TIE fighter model used in filming the climax of Star Wars sold at auction for $350,000, [55] and another TIE fighter from the film sold at auction for $402,500. [56] Fans built a 16-foot-by-20-foot, 1,000-pound TIE fighter float to commemorate Star Wars' thirtieth anniversary as part of the 2007 Gala Parade in Crystal Lake, Illinois. [57]