Developing such an incredible weapon would take a genius, and perhaps an evil genius. I’m thinking that Dr. Evil is now working for the Brits.
Cool. I don’t know much about military stuff, but it seems like a countermeasure would be to locate the cannon based on the last known position of where a swarm was shot down, and either shell or bomb the area to get the cannon, which will be expensive. Until all other kids mass produce it.
For those who might not know, the US military and Israel have had these laser systems in field tests for several years, and some rumors that some are in actual deployment.
Other countries unlikely to be far behind.
It’s not ‘futuristic’ if it’s already made in the now.
First, there's no reason for a laser "beam" to show up like that unless it is traversing air that has smoke or other particulates. And even if it was, it would not be that uniform from top to bottom.
Second, the line itself shows regular quantizing "glitches" because the line is not at exactly 45 degrees, so the "draw a straight line" graphic editor had to adjust by one pixel every 25 or so pixels.
Just expand the photo and look at that line. It was obviously added later with a graphic editor.
So.... what else about the photo and/or the article was faked?
No windage or gravity to worry about.
Developing such an incredible weapon would take a genius, and perhaps an evil genius. I’m thinking that Dr. Evil is now working for the Brits.
I wonder why that article didn’t mention Israel’s Iron Beam.
Interesting. How does a singular laser beam take out a swarm?
Wouldn’t the point, and trajectory, be chaotic in nature for a swarm?
Non linear approach and attack…
There’s a hypothesis suggesting that laser weapons were employed to ignite the houses in Lahaina, Maui aiming to clarify why certain houses were burned while the adjacent hedges and trees remained unaffected.
[[Britain says it developed and test-fired a futuristic laser cannon that can shoot drones out of the sky]]
Yeah, great. BUT- it “Might shoot the eye out of a spotted owl” so- we gots to ban it
It will end up being AI fighting AI, cuz bio weppins will deal will bio armeez and civs.
The big breakthrough in this came some years ago by overcoming the overheating problem with lasers. It used a bunch of lasers, each of which would only fire for a brief time, but all their light was focused on and part of the same output. The end result was an output just as strong as one big high temperature laser. But with much less heat.
All this system would have to do is again subdivide the output to dozens of targets simultaneously.
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