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I guess if they managed to miniaturize it so that it was handheld somehow? Seems a bit performative but I guess lots of stuff did 20 years ago.
by neltnerb 3y ago
I guess if they managed to miniaturize it so that it was handheld somehow? Seems a bit performative but I guess lots of stuff did 20 years ago.
- dylan604 3y agobut drones are cheap, so make them sacrificial to find the counter-drone battery and then send in firing mission on the battery
- neltnerb 3y agoThat's what I mean by performative, yes. If it were somehow miniaturized and handheld then it's easy to move. I doubt that's physically possible, but I've been surprised before and am old enough to have been surprised before about how clever people are.
- dylan604 3y agoIt looks like they are primarily thinking of this as protecting a non-mobile installation like a base vs troops on the move. So miniaturizing for hand-held might come, but the power supply for that would also have to shrink making it less useful. I see it mounting to a truck as part of the convoy moving troops during an advance to make it mobile
- neltnerb 3y agoI would be extremely impressed with the engineering that would be required to somehow overcome the issue of focusing that wavelength at range. They don't mention the range in the article, so I'm suspicious. It's extremely hard to imagine it having a range bigger than that which is effectively covered by other methods already. The laser makes way more sense to me, at least then the energy isn't spreading out super fast. But you never know, I absolutely did not believe optics would get sophisticated enough to manage realtime actual 3D displays (not VR, like https://voxon.co/technology/ https://voxon.co/technology/). If they can do that with optics, I know I can't imagine what people with giant budgets can do with antennae.