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Watching the U.S. Navy live fire its Laser Weapon System is awe inspiring.
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He was using a controller that looks kind of like a game console controller.
He was using a controller that looks kind of like a game console controller.
These super-advance anti-ship missiles don't look so scary any more...
Looked hokey to me. It wasn't causing explosions so much as setting off explosives on the targets.
When the opfor fires 300 missles at your fleet (or some other huge number) and even a single missle is enough to outright destroy a ship or incapacitate it.... i'll take the offense over the defense any day.
Big surface fleets are a walking disaster, AEGIS missle systems or fancy lasers aside.
Looked hokey to me. It wasn't causing explosions so much as setting off explosives on the targets.
These super-advance anti-ship missiles don't look so scary any more...
Dunno man...it's not like that thing can rapidly engage targets that are super evasive. It seems to require some time to cook the target as well.
For determined foes countermeasures will probably be dairly inexpensive. Ablative skin. Hyper-sonic anti-ship missiles. Super maneuverable missiles that go bonkers on terminal guidance. Anime style missile spam systems (made in Japan).
Looked hokey to me. It wasn't causing explosions so much as setting off explosives on the targets.
Cover a missile in mirrors.
Cover a missile in mirrors.
Looked hokey to me. It wasn't causing explosions so much as setting off explosives on the targets.
The point of the laser defense is to cook off the one-off missiles heading your way without needing to burn a half-million-dollar SM-2 each. Obviously, if facing an enemy that can lob 300 missiles at you (so: China, Russia, that's it), you are using your SM-2s, because you are fighting World War 3.
I'm from Israel, and Hezbollah have some pretty impressive arsenal of many different types of missiles supplied to them by Iran, which gets its' regular supply by the "former" USSR. Then there's north Korea and other friendly organizations and sub-groups in hellholes around our planet.
There are many countries and organizations that are able to lob large volleys of missiles beside China and Russia, and we learned the hard way that you don't really need super high tech weapon systems to fire 300 missiles at the same time, you just need 300 low tech guys with a relatively cheap shoulder mounted launchers popping out of nowhere and firing at the same time.
Don't ever underestemiate your enemy.
Ummm...do you really think a Navy vessel will let 300 small boats all get close enough for a guy to stand up with a shoulder held rocket and fire it?
Sure, groups like HezzbAllah have large number of dumb rockets they can fire - but they have trouble even hitting a city, let alone actually hitting a ship in the ocean. No fear of them - the odd one whose trajectory shows it will hit the ship is the one they bother to shoot down. Then they laugh the salvo of smart missiles and lay waste to HezzbAllah's strongholds.
Only carriers and submarines are nuclear powered nowadays, really. This laser is only about 33kW. That's what, about 44 horsepower? They have 100 and 300kW versions in the works. There are plenty of diesel generators that are truck-mountable and can produce that much power.I suspect you need that ships nuclear reactor to power that laser. It may not work as well on a 12v truck battery.
Only carriers and submarines are nuclear powered nowadays, really. This laser is only about 33kW. That's what, about 44 horsepower? They have 100 and 300kW versions in the works. There are plenty of diesel generators that are truck-mountable and can produce that much power.
The point of the laser defense is to cook off the one-off missiles heading your way without needing to burn a half-million-dollar SM-2 each. Obviously, if facing an enemy that can lob 300 missiles at you (so: China, Russia, that's it), you are using your SM-2s, because you are fighting World War 3.
Things that don't have any explosive components are usually pretty low threat to surface ships. I mean, yeah, it's useless against spears chucked at you, but...uhhh...okay. You can just ignore those.
Missiles? Aircraft? Speedboats? All of these things have plenty of 'explodey' parts you can detonate remotely this way.
Ya I'd like to see that thing bring down a missile coming in at Mach 2...
It didn't seem all that impressive to me.
Ya I'd like to see that thing bring down a missile coming in at Mach 2...
It didn't seem all that impressive to me.
Mach 2? Missiles have no issues hitting mach 4.Ya I'd like to see that thing bring down a missile coming in at Mach 2...
It didn't seem all that impressive to me.
Ummm...do you really think a Navy vessel will let 300 small boats all get close enough for a guy to stand up with a shoulder held rocket and fire it?
Sure, groups like HezzbAllah have large number of dumb rockets they can fire - but they have trouble even hitting a city, let alone actually hitting a ship in the ocean. No fear of them - the odd one whose trajectory shows it will hit the ship is the one they bother to shoot down. Then they laugh the salvo of smart missiles and lay waste to HezzbAllah's strongholds.