New lethal laser weapon will shoot down missiles

[Y'all Qaeda]

You do know what light actually is ?

These lasers obviously don’t have same energy and wavelength as visible light. Think x-rays

Unless Boeing have sold them a giant flashlight

Are you saying that Boeing found a way of negating these energy losses as the beam of light travels through the atmopshere? Also, look at those vids I linked. You can see the spot on the target, so purely from that, the laser operates on a visible spectrum.

 

[zippy]

Are you saying that Boeing found a way of negating these energy losses as the beam of light travels through the atmopshere? Also, look at those vids I linked. You can see the spot on the target, so purely from that, the laser operates on a visible spectrum.

the shorter the wavelength the better. Higher energy. I believe most weapons research has been in the infra red and shorter wavelength. That’s what is needed to negate loss of energy as the beam travels through the atmosphere. Maybe when you see “the spot on the target”, what you are seeing is not the laser, but rather the heat of the energy transfer that is the result of the laser striking the target. Google Free Electron Laser. I believe these emit in the infra red range and there is work being to scale that to X-ray range which would be effective in the atmosphere but requires massive power sources. I suppose the practicality of laser weapons depends more on how easy it is support the power needed. That’s why the most successful weapons tests are from land based installations or ships. I believe the Americans did successfully test a laser fired from an aircraft, but it was 1 shot weapon fired from possibly a modified 747 or similar heavy aircraft. Not really practical.

 

[zippy]

You do know you can refract a laser by pointing it at a mirror.......Technically if you have a couple of low orbit mirrors that can be adjusted you could hit any spot in the world with in an inch.However it is slightly problematic as light leaves the earth the upper atmosphere is less dense which means it bend naturally as it leaves the earth, same reason why you have refraction in water, when light hits the water, it is slightly refracted, every spear fisherman knows this.With the use of mirrors and angled correctly you can refract light to form a perfect circle. Because we know that light can be refracted and we know the laws of physics, we are only limited by out technical knowledge.

You not actually breaking the laws of physics, but you can "bend" them. I love the pun.

Shorter wavelength “light” is harder to refract.

 

[zippy]

It doesn't matter how fast the light of the laser travels, the US doesn't have the capacity to track a hypersonic missile yet.

I doubt anyone has, but I am sure they working on it

 

[krycor]

Slight correction. Only China and Russia have working hypersonic missiles. The US is still working on theirs. Their recent tests all failed.

The scary aspect is not just the hypersonic nature even.. it’s the claimed auto pilot & maneuvering it can do as it approaches target at speed which means defending is not harder due to timing but also shooting it down is tricky as it’s glide path dynamically changes.

Didn’t NK also say they dabbling in the tech too.. but theirs is still in 1st gen so glide path based thus can countered if time allows and attempt to take it down worked.

 

[zippy]

These hypersonic weapons may have weaknesses of their own due to their speed. I believe the reason the Russian missile is so hard to detect by radar is because it produces a plasma bubble in front of it. This also means the missile can’t use radar to track its target. Im sure that a bubble of plasma is detectable by other means. Infra-red sensors?. Or advanced optic sensors?. At such high speeds the missile would also not be as manoeuvrable? Also, like ballistic missiles, if you can’t track them, you detect that they have been launched because it will take a lot of energy, so whoever launches one would have to hope there isn’t some lunatic on the other end who will assume the worse and respond accordingly

 

[LiPO]

Time to invest in mirrors

 

[wizardofid]

Shorter wavelength “light” is harder to refract.

Indeed which makes it all the more interesting to see the solutions, prime example is Lidar....

 

[Wut]

The scary aspect is not just the hypersonic nature even.. it’s the claimed auto pilot & maneuvering it can do as it approaches target at speed which means defending is not harder due to timing but also shooting it down is tricky as it’s glide path dynamically changes.

Didn’t NK also say they dabbling in the tech too.. but theirs is still in 1st gen so glide path based thus can countered if time allows and attempt to take it down worked.

Looks like China went a few steps further with another test. A hypersonic glide vehicle fired another hypersonic test missile. So one hypersonic missile now has the ability to become multiple hypersonic missiles which will be even harder to counter. The successful test apparently puts China way in the lead of the other countries.

China has a missile that was previously thought impossible, report claims

China has tested a weapon that was previously thought impossible, according to a new report.

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Magandroid]

Looks like China went a few steps further with another test. A hypersonic glide vehicle fired another hypersonic test missile. So one hypersonic missile now has the ability to become multiple hypersonic missiles which will be even harder to counter. The successful test apparently puts China way in the lead of the other countries.

China has a missile that was previously thought impossible, report claims

China has tested a weapon that was previously thought impossible, according to a new report.

www.independent.co.uk

How do we know this is even true and not more American propaganda to justify the so-called "China threat" so the US government can request more military funding.

 

[Wut]

How do we know this is even true and not more American propaganda to justify the so-called "China threat" so the US government can request more military funding.

That's a possibility, too.

 

[Blu82]

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