DragonFire: UK fires high-power laser at aerial targets for first time - with 'intense beam of light' able to cut through drones

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• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What if enemies just start adding mirrors to their planes, drones, etc?

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  • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I could be wrong, but I don’t suspect that a laser powerful enough to physically destroy stuff at a distance is going to be meaningfully stopped by regular mirrors, because mirrors don’t reflect all the light pointed at them, and as soon as the mirror gets damaged enough to not properly reflect light in the spot the beam hits, it might as well not be there anyway.

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  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    easy you put another mirror at the gun

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  • sandevistan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well I’m basing this off what I’ve seen the Chinese get up to, they have these mounted on trucks so if there is some kind of effective counter like super smoke, idk, inclement weather conditions (lmao), they just don’t roll it out.

    Also if these ever get mounted on fighter jets it might be wise to make them part of the automated drone fleets that are gonna be flying in locked formation like Blue Angels. Just don’t send out the laser drones unless necessary idk.

    I’m just speculating

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  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    tapshead.gif

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  • Bears_Koolaid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The future really is chrome

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• ItsAFake@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This going to be a weirdly lit world war.

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• voight@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  o so they caught up to china huh

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• Ratulf@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Have they solved the issues with particles in the air like dust or clouds? Or is it just a good weather defense?

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