Laser tanks are impractical. What if the enemy wears mirrored shades? That laser goes right back and kills you instead. You don’t want your 100 million dollar tank to be taken out by a pair of Ray-Bans.
The Army has officially deployed a pair of high-energy lasers overseas to blast incoming enemy drones out of the sky, the service recently confirmed, marking a major milestone for the U.S. military’s ongoing development of futuristic directed-energy weapons.
The 20-kilowatt Palletized High Energy Laser, or P-HEL, “is currently deployed to support the Army’s mission” in an undisclosed location abroad, a spokesman for the service’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office, which manages its directed-energy portfolio, told Military.com.
I think the bigger concern is enemy UAVs wearing shades.
The moment those mirrors stop being perfectly shiny they begin thermal collapse. Which is the real reason mirrors exposed to the atmosphere can’t be used as targeting optics.
Laser tanks are impractical. What if the enemy wears mirrored shades? That laser goes right back and kills you instead. You don’t want your 100 million dollar tank to be taken out by a pair of Ray-Bans.
We can put shades on the tank to bounce it right back
Classic,but inappropriate. Tanks should not wear aviators, but big chunky goggle style Warby Parkers on sale $1.89
Str8 outta Fort Sill, Oklahoma BITCHEZ
WAR… is… disco?
Next your gonna tell me the raving rabbits are the ones driving them.
Disco Demolition Night. This type of war is not unprecedented.
I guess war does change.
What if they do this
This is why I never open someone else’s makeup bag.
I HATE THIS SO MUCH
and its soo awesome
Doesn’t that cause a nuclear explosion?
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/04/24/army-has-officially-deployed-laser-weapons-overseas-combat-enemy-drones.html
I think the bigger concern is enemy UAVs wearing shades.
Yay for undisclosed location! Slava Ukraini!
It could potentially be in the red sea.
I would be fine with that. I’m just a laser loiterer who thinks pirates need to be wiped off the face of the earth in a sizzling manner.
The moment those mirrors stop being perfectly shiny they begin thermal collapse. Which is the real reason mirrors exposed to the atmosphere can’t be used as targeting optics.