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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Not stupid just single track minded. Doing as told with no deviation. The stupid ones are the officers driving the r&d battalions

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Because Still Lasers aren't lethal, duh!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Porque no los?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This was a real concept for the anti-ICMB 747. The idea was to loiter it outside air defense range and then send drones in as reflectors to target the lasers much closer to the threat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Interesting! Yeah, I think in the right atmospheric conditions this could absolutely work.

Why it's NCD, as drawn, is that shells already exist and do exactly this when fired on an indirect arc.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Buddy called inverse-square law

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Inverse square law is just a geometric limitation, focus your lasers more, problem solved.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

"You see, men, the lethal range is limited by this airy disk... stop giggling!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Alternately, polish every car window facing east.

Or... skip a step. Line of sight is irrelevant if your aircraft is already exploding!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

There's a building in central London that melted a car. Solar laser, so SEO friendly, so on fleek.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

This is also how you check if your ass is clean.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

We don't need Sky Ranger, mirrorbois or lasertank, we have shitballoons.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The US military has in the past used some large vehicle mounted beam weapons that make your skin burn like all hell, such as the Active Denial System, and I wonder if those could be deflected as well or if they're the part of the spectrum that needs more sophisticated shielding?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Those aren't lasers, they're millimeter-wave radio beams.

Yes, they can be deflected pretty easily, but you'll need metal shield that's big enough to entirely hide behind.

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