UK Tests “DragonFire” Laser

[doogyhatts]

Costs only $13 usd per shot.
https://www.defensenews.com/industr...l-drone-with-test-shot-from-dragonfire-laser/


The Obelisk of Light is now real.

 

[dambio]

Gundam coming true! Houthis will chua sai boh?

 

[DrAwkward]

@DragonFire

 

[DragonFire]

No mention as to how much the laser battery costs. It'll suffer from the same problem as Iron Beam.

That is to say the inability to simultaneously engage multiple targets.

The Iron Beam's main problem is the extreme cost of each battery, making parallel deployments require a huge amount of capital.

 

[xcodes]

light sabre is coming true ...

 

[kuti-kuti]

2020 news:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/us-claims-china-fired-laser-weapon-navy-spy-plane

 

[Hypernova]

i ish hab one qwestion.

what happens if the drone is plated with reflective materials, ie. mirror-esque armor?

 

[Phenom_88]

I tot it's not allowed to point laser at aircraft

 

[doogyhatts]

i ish hab one qwestion.

what happens if the drone is plated with reflective materials, ie. mirror-esque armor?

The mirror has imperfections on its surface. It can be sliced through by the laser.

 

[anonym]

No mention as to how much the laser battery costs. It'll suffer from the same problem as Iron Beam.

That is to say the inability to simultaneously engage multiple targets.

The Iron Beam's main problem is the extreme cost of each battery, making parallel deployments require a huge amount of capital.

Sooner or later will get there.

Many years ago EV also same problem too expensive battery. Now Tesla number 1 liao.

 

[kuti-kuti]

Simi 'dragon fire' lah, talk machiam got dragon got phoenix sia...

In Ccpland, only 1 PLA enuff to make whole world piss in pants

 

[GBC]

UK is wols...

https://armyrecognition.com/weapons...can_blind_satellites_at_1500_km_altitude.html

https://www.wionews.com/world/peres...-new-laser-weapons-against-ukraine-war-480775

 

[Laneige]

i ish hab one qwestion.

what happens if the drone is plated with reflective materials, ie. mirror-esque armor?

Blind sia
Then the anti anti anti anti thing
Lol

anti laser
Anti anti laser
Anti reflective
Anti anti reflective

 

[forests_gump]

No mention as to how much the laser battery costs. It'll suffer from the same problem as Iron Beam.

That is to say the inability to simultaneously engage multiple targets.

The Iron Beam's main problem is the extreme cost of each battery, making parallel deployments require a huge amount of capital.

it just need to cut into the hypersonic missle pcb to render it useless.

 

[GBC]

it just need to cut into the hypersonic missle pcb to render it useless.

How to test whether it can do it when UK itself don't have any hypersonic missiles ?

 

[forests_gump]

How to test whether it can do it when UK itself don't have any hypersonic missiles ?

simple lah...just silently target NK monthly test launch lor... they would known nuts wat actually happen, as launches typically fails.

 

[MizunoVolley]

China will send message soon say Dragon is Chinese, you cannot use

 

[zobrak]

news from crux hard to believe

 

[Ctrl_Alt_Del]

Israel also tested similar laser weapon system many years ago, but no report of it been used during the gaza rockets attack few months ago.

The laser requires huge amount of electricity and recharge time, hostile side can just overwhelm the laser or iron dome with large number of "cheap" drones, rockets.

 

[Ctrl_Alt_Del]

it just need to cut into the hypersonic missle pcb to render it useless.

The laser beam will still spread out to larger area when used on target few hundred km away, and absorbed/distorted by difference in atmospheric layers.