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Two counterpoints: 1. Russia had its own DEW system since at least 2018, and doesn’t currently use it on or off the battlefield 2. Israel has Iron Beam, repor
by ein0p 2y ago
Two counterpoints:
1. Russia had its own DEW system since at least 2018, and doesn’t currently use it on or off the battlefield
2. Israel has Iron Beam, reportedly a 100KW DEW system, and also doesn’t use it
Perhaps it’s not as cool as it says on the tin?
- ptero 2y agoI suspect at least in part due to the difficulties with reliable tracking and ID, not the negation component. Plus due to the fact that RF is (so far) still very effective at least against cheaper stuff. But once that changes the game will be very different.
- jandrewrogers 2y agoWhat does any of this have to do with US weapon systems? They are way ahead of anyone else in this area of tech. They have invested a lot in these capabilities over many decades, and the public capabilities are state-of-the-art. Laser tech is an extremely difficult engineering discipline, you can’t enter it casually. The US has made large focused investments on mastering this tech in a way no one else has over many decades.
- ein0p 2y ago>> They are way ahead A common misconception