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Again, it takes few seconds per target with current laser tech. Which means they don't have important simultaneous multi target engagement capability. The targ
by numpad0 1y ago
Again, it takes few seconds per target with current laser tech. Which means they don't have important simultaneous multi target engagement capability.
The targets, whether it's plumbing pipe rockets or lipo drones, come in at 100-1000 yards/sec, so you don't really have that many seconds per target.
They work in the demo in which you just shoot down the sole target as it fly perpendicular to the machine for both physical and career safety, but when it comes to deploying the thing around your bed, guns make a lot more sense.
- Retric 1y agoThe quotes suggest that system has actually been deployed and used successfully in real world conditions. Also, your objection doesn’t really fit how drones have been used. Massive highly coordinated drone swarms are extremely unusual, the threat is mostly individual drones or small clusters. Many very dangerous drones are well under 100y/s aka 200mph. 1000 yards/second aka Mach 2.7 is well beyond the ‘drones’ people are concerned with and into expensive missile territory. Which is where anti missile systems get used.