>Saudi Arabia: Laser weapon purchased from China is nearly unusable >In the desert, it took 15 to 30 minutes to successfully shoot down a drone with the laser, instead of just a few seconds >"Despite its good performance during trials, SkyShield has proven less effective under real conditions than promised," Defence Blog quotes him as saying. "In some cases, it took between 15 and 30 minutes of continuously targeting the objective with the laser and firing multiple times in order to guarantee the destruction of a drone." >This makes the Silent Hunter component almost useless. The maximum range for destroying a drone is given as 4 km. A kamikaze drone of the Shahed type, such as those Russia uses against Ukraine, flies at around 180 km/h." https://futurezone.at/digital-life/saudi-arabien-china-silent-hunter-skyshield-laser-kritik-schwaeche-unbrauchbar-wueste-ungeeignet/403081052?utm_source=firefox-newtab-de-de
>>64229113Third thread about this started within a minute of each other. Very organic.
>>64229113look at that shitty 20 dollar cctv camera mounted above the cab, lmao, zhang has no sense of ridiculous, vely implessive thou
>>64229124Not so implessive now chang
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>>64229113Monkey model
>>64229113Laser weapons are immature tech until we have invented mobile fusion reactors. So, no ER Medium Lasers for now. At most they can be used to overload cameras on drones.
>>64229445Didn't the US successfully put one in a modified airliner? IIRC it burned an iodine/oxygen mix to produce the light and could only shine six shots.As usual, chemical storage of energy wins out thanks to it's convenience.
>>64229124Just like my Chinese shills, detractors can also bot. So how does it feel?
Everyone knows this is monkey model. US (nigger BBC worhsippers their women fuck dogs) will die by millions and trannies will seethe when PRC (THIS IS OUR CENTURY OUR OUR OUR) dominates the globe like they do here in canada. Your women fuck dogs anyway.
>>64229711>>64229445We really might need to go full 1940s and have 20mm AA guns fucking everywhere there to counter drones then. High performance drones are a separate matter that would still require missiles.
>>64229113What was the weather like there? Could've been dust in the air, god knows that fucks with lasers something nasty.
>>64229727Dust is plentiful everywhere. Doesn't exactly inspire much confidence if your laser can only be used at sea on a good day.
That's what happens when you swallow the chinkesoid propaganda imao. Nothing works
To be fair, that Stryker DE M-SHORAD could shoot down mortars and such during initial tests, but when sent to the middle east for more testing, it reportedly did poorly. Although they didn't specify in what aspects.
>>64229726Found it, it was tested in 2007 and 2010,then later scrapped. It was intended to destroy ballistic missiles and was successful but not powerful enough so they abandoned the project.They had started researching laser interception in the 80's.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1
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I have a feeling thats how Cold War was, USSR would parade around equipment and USA would freak out... turns out all that equipment and it's stats on paper were fake. Here we are 40 years later, China is doing the same shit.
>>64229724As opposed to your women, that are decaying at the bottom of a river
>>64229727Yeah according to the original report the main problem was the sand and dust in the air. How are you supposed to solve this besides using a bigger laser?
>>64229113It looked really cool in the parade though
>>64229113How nice of Saudis to beta test chink built garbage
>>64229113>"In some cases, it took between 15 and 30 minutes of continuously targeting the objective with the laser and firing multiple times in order to guarantee the destruction of a drone."holy shit lmao
>>64232166By using a bigger laser. Preferably one big enough to output the rated power, which we all know chinkshit never does.
>>64232305>Preferably one big enough to output the rated power, which we all know chinkshit never does.Lol, if you knew anything about this, you'd know that Chinkshit lasers are always at least twice as powerful as they're labeled and usually more than that. Any Chinese laser that you can buy online is more powerful than it should be and is probably stupidly dangerous for it.
>>64232919That's only for consumer laser pointers and shit because they can't legally advertise more and it's more work to ensure that they come in below the rated power than to just slap some shit together and ship it. Obviously that's not going to apply to directed energy weapons that are far beyond all of those laws.
>>64229711You can now make a laser as strong as that one that required a whole 747 that's small enough to fit on a pickup truck. Hell even this shitty IMPLESSIVE piece of trash in the OP is probably stronger than it was, not because the OP lasers are particularly good but because that experimental one was just old and obsolete tech. Lasers have had absolutely massive advancements since that old thing.
>>64233219Still, reading about the testing they intercepted a few targets, in one case they destroyed it twice as fast as they expected while in at least two tests it took much much longer. This sounds like an athospheric issue, those lasers are very long range weapons so the weather will wildly impact the performance. Apparently they scrapped it after finding out it'd need to be 20-30 times more powerful to be useful. The concept could still work for drones because of the closer range tough, and you can be sure they're looking into it.
>>64233287>skyshield which was sold to SA is britishnice source but every article says it was chinese
>>64229445Fuck laserboats anyway, ERPPCs for life
>>64229113No lefunds >)
>>64229124>ThreeImplessive. Turd worlder Chang can count to turd.
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>>64229711Boeing demonsted a 10kW fiber optic laser that was slightly smaller ten years ago.
>>64229113“In some cases, it took between 15 and 30 minutes of continuous targeting and laser illumination to guarantee a drone kill,” the officer explained. Dust and sand disrupted optical tracking and weakened the laser beam. Continuous exposure also caused abrasion to the optical systems, while the high desert heat forced much of the system’s power into cooling rather than firing.so basicly nobody from both sides bothered to have the system tested on saudi arabia first and foremost to see how they would cope with the insane temperature...then came the best oneDeploying the laser module from its truck-mounted container also took time, slowing the transition from standby to combat mode. Moreover, the weapon required long, flat terrain for clear lines of sight, conditions that are difficult to guarantee across much of Saudi Arabia’s environment.that saudi official that revealed this probably hasnt seen his country flatness i suppose therefore its safe to say that its a bullshit article
>sand dunes don't exist in desert areas
>>64236183The sand dunes are a lie made up by big glass companies to screw poor pure silica mining operations out of that sweet sweey northern white. Read my zine! There's a sane shortage the fed bois don't want you to know about!
>Paint aircraft with reflective metalic paint.>Laser gets btfo.They could still repurpose the truck to make enemy soldiers become blind.
>>64236183>i ahve no idea about the arabian desert and im about to show it
>By contrast, the jamming elements of the SkyShield proved more reliable. The officer noted that “most of the drones engaged in the defended zone were neutralized not by the Silent Hunter but by the JN1101 counter-drone jamming system.”So the jammer on it works at least. Sounds like lasers generate a lot of heat, and the desert fucks with that. I wonder how they'll perform on ships.
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Lol
>>64235679Look at a topographic map of Saudi Arabia, anon.
>>64240641It's the armatard
>>64229726proxy fuse would be ideal, I think, and the minimum for that is 35mm iircmaybe somebody's shoved one in something smaller idk
>>64229755I think it's actually what happens when you try to use a laser in a sandstorm
