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These are the sort of sensors that are on surface vessels https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/30057/u-s-warships-have-this-seldom-discussed-but-very-powerful-
by dogma1138 5y ago
These are the sort of sensors that are on surface vessels https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/30057/u-s-warships-have-this-seldom-discussed-but-very-powerful-optical-targeting-system https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/30057/u-s-warships-hav...
These systems are powerful and precise enough to be used for fine grained targeting, in fact in many cases the guns of the ship and the CIWS systems will be guided with electro optical sensors rather than radar.
Radar picks things up, the ElOp system then interrogates the target, ranges it with with a laser which provides much higher precision than radar range finding and if need be guns go brrrttt…
- pps 5y agoAll right. For some reason they didn't use that before - maybe it wasn't available at the time, or maybe they are using that, but they deliberately want to spread disinformation. Anyway, we'll see how it will go with this linked project, it's privately funded and it will require new research, so there is no harm in doing that, only new opportunities.