• ShadowRam
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    27 months ago

    Nah, 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      27 months ago

      somebody already put lasers on F35 and israelis are using ground-based lasers as a complement to iron dome

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        7 months ago

        Yeah, have you seen the size of those? Those are chem lasers in order to get the wattage needed to destroy something.

        Plus you need the electronics/mechanics to track the device perfectly to keep the laser on target in order for it to do damage.

        All completely unnecessary to drop a small drone out of the sky.

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          17 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