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EndlessApollo@lemmy.world 10 months agoIs that really how that stuff works?? I always thought the idea was that the laser would track the missile and melt it out of the sky. What you’re saying sounds super high tech I’ve never heard of that, I’m gonna look that up tonight bc that sounds really cool even if it’s not practical bc energy costs
Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
The simple laser pointer style takes huge amounts of energy and has more limited range from what I understand, this is a newer idea that they’ve been talking about.
Of course beside a few bits of information it’s all classified so we can only really guess about it, this article is really interesting they’re talking about using it to distract heat seekling missiles but also as a kind of display firework that can be controlled. forbes.com/…/ufos-plasma-lasers-and-the-pentagons… the voice of God bit makes me think of those Tesla coils playing the Tetris theme. I might have been wrong about it being an effective counter weapon but I’m sure I read it was planned to counter drone swarms so maybe they’ve been able to up the heat or sustainability of it.