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DragonFire: UK fires high-power laser at aerial targets for first time - with 'intense beam of light' able to cut through drones
(news.sky.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2024
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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. You're stuck buying our shitty F-35s or whatever lol
The F-35 is the complete opposite of shitty.
It's one of the most financialized and ineffective projects in the entire US military, and that's really saying something. It's billed as a hypothetical way for our close allies to use nukes, We would use ICBMs in real nuclear warfare which everyone knows is being stashed actoss Europe and Israel not-so-secretly the F35 shit is LARPing, but anyways conveniently nobody really plans on it since it would result in us getting property damage lol.
Anyways that's a red herring the real issues is the expense and the production of the parts for it + the amount of time it has to spend being babied by mechanics!
That shit is so unreliable even when it's not damn near killing the pilots with shitty ejects or weird landings, you want to see a video? It's Fed up. Guy's head clearly gets SMASHED against the Fing plane.
It's way less reliable based on inclement weather than these prototype direct energy weapons.
We have effective weapons programs I don't feel the need to talk about F35 when it's so well covered. I can get you democrat, republican, bloodless investor, or communist takes on it
With lasers this powerful weather would be turned to steam, it's going to clear its path eventually.
Well the power limitations and cooling issues that were previously considered to be insurmountable have been, so you may be right. I guess the question is can it effectively dispatch missiles headed to jets.
Taking out drones with a tank mounted direct energy weapon seems very feasible or having other shit around that can do that