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How would you shoot a stealth drone? And how are lasers an improvement over conventional anti aircraft missiles?

• lifeisstillgood 14y ago
  The improvements are immense 1. Distance Chemical lasers are proven at hundreds of miles 2. Time Speed of light. Dodge, counter measures, evasion. Pah! 3. Reusability Missiles run out quick, electricity from a generator less so Shoot a stealth drone the same way you shoot stealth planes - visually
• riggins 14y ago
  And how are lasers an improvement over conventional anti aircraft missiles? This is purely educated guess, but my guess is that lasers make the problem much much easier and hence much more effective. Instead of needing to calculate a trajectory of the inbound aircraft, predict its future location (i.e. where the puck is going to be), and correctly calculate a trajectory for the intercept missile, you can probably just assume all that away because lasers travel at the speed of light. As long as you can get a fix on where the aircraft is right now, point the laser, pull the trigger.
  • rdtsc 14y ago
    You'd still have to track the target. Otherwise you might just warm its surface (which will already be built to be reflective) and ablative so when a laser hits it will just burn off a specially designed outer layer.