Comment on Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future
ShadowRam@kbin.social 3 months agoNah, lasers too big. It would be a simple birdshot shotgun. Its detection and aiming.
When they are high up, they can be hard to spot and hear.
But a pair of sensitive mic's and a camera designed to look for them could easily be paired with some AR glasses.
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
somebody already put lasers on F35 and israelis are using ground-based lasers as a complement to iron dome
ShadowRam@kbin.social 3 months ago
Yeah, have you seen the size of those? Those are chem lasers in order to get the wattage needed to destroy something.
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
there are also fiber lasers with enough power for small, slow targets like drone and size small enough to fit in a modern western fighter jet pod. targeting is done via radar roughly and then the same optics , or similar optics that laser uses later