Mirrors melt and break when hit with a laser of more than “pretty lights power”.
This dude built a 2kW one with optics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNmbvaUzC8Q
mirror at ~ 4:30
EDIT: I know where I am, that video is too good not to share though. Vote away.
Nah. This doesn’t count because that guy is clearly from the future when you can buy a 1K laser at the corner store. In 2024, they are a little bit harder to come by.
Back to the future.
1955 Doc Brown on plutonium availability:
I rarely give my time to videos that long, but it was awesome for the full half hour. That guy’s having fun. Thanks for sharing.
If you fire a laser against a mirror, it bounces but raises the heat of the mirror so you end up melting the mirror and destroying the drone.
But the drone stays in the air by making wind, which would cool down the mirror?
In all seriousness, wavelength-specific dielectric mirrors can approach six nines of reflectivity.
The hard part is hitting the mirror instead of the drone.
Not stupid just single track minded. Doing as told with no deviation. The stupid ones are the officers driving the r&d battalions
Buddy called inverse-square law
Inverse square law is just a geometric limitation, focus your lasers more, problem solved.
Laser tanks are impractical. What if the enemy wears mirrored shades? That laser goes right back and kills you instead. You don’t want your 100 million dollar tank to be taken out by a pair of Ray-Bans.
Classic,but inappropriate. Tanks should not wear aviators, but big chunky goggle style Warby Parkers on sale $1.89
WAR… is… disco?
Next your gonna tell me the raving rabbits are the ones driving them.
The Army has officially deployed a pair of high-energy lasers overseas to blast incoming enemy drones out of the sky, the service recently confirmed, marking a major milestone for the U.S. military’s ongoing development of futuristic directed-energy weapons.
The 20-kilowatt Palletized High Energy Laser, or P-HEL, “is currently deployed to support the Army’s mission” in an undisclosed location abroad, a spokesman for the service’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office, which manages its directed-energy portfolio, told Military.com.
I think the bigger concern is enemy UAVs wearing shades.
