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US military show off new weapon

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Long distance laser...  This laser expected to be modified in next 3-5 years where it will be able to shut down missles and aircrafts within seconds.  This laser can also be mounted on drones.  This about to change the warfare.  Makes many rockets and mortars absolutely useless and outdated. 

 

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So How long before mortars, missiles, and aircraft come equipped with smoke generators to diffuse enough of the lasers energy to render it useless?

 

Well useless as anything but a beacon to return fire against?

 

How could they get the smoke out ahead of a moving mortar/missle?

 

I would think some types of reflective coating would be a better deterrent...  I'm sure there will be counters to this tech.

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Probably use of chrome will help but this will make rockets expensive and billion of round of rockets obsolete. Also, can't use chrome on airplane... Too heavy. This laser can be used on people and vehicles as well. There's really no easy solution.

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How could they get the smoke out ahead of a moving mortar/missle?

 

I would think some types of reflective coating would be a better deterrent...  I'm sure there will be counters to this tech.

 

This is just off my head and I'm no weapons designer so take it for what its worth...

 

If you added a device that generated smoke to the nose of the missile/mortar and then vented that smoke through a series of equally spaced ports around the diameter of the device it should be possible to partially/mostly cover the body of the device in a thin film of smoke.  Especially if you also incorporate an induced spin to not only "weave" the smoke around the device but also move the lasers point of focus.  Anything that disperses the lasers energy would in theory reduce its effectiveness.

 

Seems to me that this was one of the knocks against some of the early SDI laser systems.

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Probably use of chrome will help but this will make rockets expensive and billion of round of rockets obsolete. Also, can't use chrome on airplane... Too heavy. This laser can be used on people and vehicles as well. There's really no easy solution.

 

Even if you used a 99% perfect mirror 1% of the lasers energy would still penetrate the device and cause damage.

 

 

And chrome is a long way from a 99% prefect reflective surface.

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I'm no expert, but I gotta think your basic old school mortars are pretty safe for the time being. This kind of laser tech I'd imagine is somewhat sizable and can't just be hauled around anywhere-not yet anyways- and even when it can, old mortars are still small and crude. That's a pretty difficult to target to acquire and knock down, is it not? Not to mention given how mobile the mortars themselves are it'd be difficult to even predict when and which direction they'd be coming from.

I guess I'm jusy saying artillery will always have a place on the battlefield.

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Long distance laser... This laser expected to be modified in next 3-5 years where it will be able to shut down missles and aircrafts within seconds. This laser can also be mounted on drones. This about to change the warfare. Makes many rockets and mortars absolutely useless and outdated.

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Now the thought that should "scare" us all is this.

 

 

The US military isn't going to ever show us its coolest newest most bad-ass toys.  If they are willing to let this out then then they have some new tech that makes this just "pretty cool".

 

Actually this thought makes me feel pretty good.  I do hope is scares the hell out of the Chinese and the Russians

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