The Space Battleship Yamato, seeing as you said “Battleship”.
Didn’t the last Star Wars movie have deathstar laser mounted to battleships and they were all going to shoot one planet somewhere in the galaxy - and they started with Corrisont which was on the other side of the galaxy. Would that be considered longest range?
Mixing up a couple movies. The planet-killer fleet never got to use their main guns. Starkiller Base did destroy planets in another star system, but none of them was Coruscant. The main planet was commonly mistaken for Coruscant, but that’s due to bad communication with the audience. The laser splitting to hit individual planets in the same system being visible with the naked eye from anywhere in the galaxy also indicates Abrams has no idea how distance works.
Did you know it would have been impossible for Denethor to run the distance across the courtyard of Minas Tirith while on fire?
He may or may not know how distance works, but he knows how screens work and prioritizes that.
The Behemoth from the Expanse Series had a laser with a range of literal light years.
Granted, it was a comm laser, but they did weaponize it at one point.
Even if we assume that the beam had a solar-system sized diameter after 4 ly, a weaponized output should still be in ship-killer range after an AE or five.
Ultimately, the weapon was never fired (and would have melted half the ship if it ever were).
I know it’s not on a ship but if Deathstar counts, this should be pretty close.
I want to introduce you guys to a bunch of Colony Lasers in Gundam universe.
I’m not totally sure but want the Death Star always moved to pretty much be in orbit before firing? It was powerful but not necessarily looking range.
That was just because the guy they hired to aim it was a bit slow. They told him they could fire from far away, but he just kept driving it up and parking it right in front of the target.
It’s not about the size of your laser, it’s what you do with it.
Yeah but it takes a long time to melt an asteroid with a flashlight.
The Macross can hit from Earth’s surface to past the moon, probably much further aswell but it’s never really explained
The Tribe of Silver melted Earth from several hundred light years away.
SDF1 main gun. Anything larger than a city shouldn’t be considered a ship.
But SDF-1 had an entire city within it 🧐
Lensman USS Ohio was pretty impressive. It had a scout/targeting ships that were always just on the verge of not being in range, when it saw an enemy it sent the location back which meant that the effective range was always a circle double the sensor range.
