What are the tactical applications of a podded High-Energy laser?https://x.com/RXRoy/status/1858820129255034938
>>62889443Hey I think I saw that in Ace Combat 7
>>62889443I think popular opinion is lasers will be the best anti-drone technology.
>>62889648I'm a big fan of high energy microwave. From what I've seen, you still need to burn down a drone for like 10 seconds to kill it with a 20-50kw laser.
>>62889690>10 secondsIs milliseconds. These things can do artillery shells traveling 1000mph, they don't have 10 seconds.
>>62889758No, I said seconds and I mean it. Watch this video, it takes about 12 seconds for the 10kw HEL-MD to kill a mortar. https://youtu.be/Y-Ok6DICyzk
>>62889758And here's a video from the recent testing with the LOCUST ~20kw weapon, you can see it takes a significant amount of time to burn down the drone, probably also in the range of 5+ seconds.That's not all that bad, because you have to remember missiles and gun bullets also have a significant TOF and this is engaging at the speed of light for zero cost and with an infinite magazine depth. https://youtu.be/Ufky08hbhPo?t=46
>>62889814is this fucking halo music
>>62889690>>62889758>>62889823So what happens to war once we can mount NOD Obelisk of Light tier powered lasers on planes and tanks?
>>62889823All that electronic shit strapped to the outside looks super vulnerable and fragile. Will it really hold up to weeks in the field and debris thrown up by even inaccurate IDF?Could that be the new meta? IDF a unit to degrade it's anti-drone defenses then drone swarm it while it's vulnerable?Or am I just being stupid?
>>62889872Total Zigger/Chinkoid/Brownoid Death.
>>62889884All weapons degrade, why are you assuming there is no maintainence or replacement units?
>>62890078That guy is a fucking idiot. Probably doesn't even know there isn't an AR on the planet that has survived 1,000 rounds of full auto fire. Anyone with technical experience can tell you that things wear down and go out of alignment over time and use. >But the thing has to be replaced!So do barrels, mags, springs etc on an AR with use. I think the real problem with laser weapons is energy efficiency. I'm sure we'll find a solution in the next 100years but I'll be long dead by then. I'll never get my lazer/plasma rifle in time.
>>62890255Energy efficiency is fine, it's in the ballpark of 50%. The baseline Stryker already has 16kw of aux power, the V2 upgrade something like 25kw, and the Ledios stryker has a further aux power upgrade that actually lets the laser fire indefinitely off aux power, no battery storage required. Your standard engines already produce something like 250-300kw of shaft horsepower and hybrid drivetrains let you divert all of that to weapons. http://gvsets.ndia-mich.org/documents/PM/2018/Stryker%20Vehicle%20Advanced%20Propulsion%20with%20Onboard%20Power.pdf
>>62889690as the other fag said it's no where near 10 seconds, but to your point it's not exactally instantaneous, especially with the smaller more deployable truck mounted lasers. however, the key to this technology lies in the targeting tech. when it targets a missle it can lock on and hold that beam on the exact same spot even while the missle is traveling at high speed and maneuvering. this is extraordinarily effective on drones. I'm going to be vuage here for obvious reasons, but there was a test range incident where someone accidently left a system like this (truck mounted 50kw portable laser with organic sensor tracking) operational on the range while another company was testing some next generation drone swarm tech. they had accidentlyed the entire constellation of drones before anyone realized what happened. basically when the drone formation flew in range of the idling laser system it zapped them all in a matter or seconds and left them burning in a field. and this was at least several years ago.
It's a targeting pod you imbeciles.
>>62890078>>62890255I mean, please tell me how a supply unit can get up, and replace all the damaged equipment in the c. 5 minutes before the drones arrive? Which is what you'd be facing if you were fighting an actual peer enemy. Which is what you should always plan for.
>>62890414>I'm going to be vuage here for obvious reasons, but there was a test range incident where someone accidently left a system like this (truck mounted 50kw portable laser with organic sensor tracking) operational on the range while another company was testing some next generation drone swarm tech. they had accidentlyed the entire constellation of drones before anyone realized what happened. basically when the drone formation flew in range of the idling laser system it zapped them all in a matter or seconds and left them burning in a field. and this was at least several years ago.what a lame larp.and yes, it's seconds as you'll have losses in atmosphere.also a missile is the easy target because the trajectory can be extrapolated. not so much with a manually flown multirotor
