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I wonder what the countermeasures to these will be. To construct your drones and missiles out of highly reflective mirrors?
by missedthecue 4y ago
I wonder what the countermeasures to these will be. To construct your drones and missiles out of highly reflective mirrors?
- ySteeK 4y agoMaybe retroreflectors?
- Grimburger 4y agoOthers mentioned reflective shielding above but ablative coverings seem to work much better. For lightweight applications like drones I would hazard a guess that specifically engineered aerogels would do well.
- moring 4y agoWouldn't aerogels let almost all of the laser's energy through?
- azernik 4y agoThe aerogels would be thermal insulators under an opaque coating. My Children of a Dead Earth favorite is a thin layer of something reflective for short-burst thermal reflection, under that something that can take high temperatures like carbon-carbon for sustained lasers, and then a big slab of aerogel to keep that heat off of the more delicate bits.