100,000-Watt Iron Beam laser becomes world’s first drone defense zapper to be operationally deployed — it can also shoot down rockets, mortars, and other aerial threats
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/100kw-iron-beam-laser-becomes-worlds-first-drone-defense-zapper-to-be-operationally-deployed-it-can-also-shoot-down-rockets-mortars-and-other-aerial-threats
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I don’t know much but what I do know from my time in the Army many many years ago is don’t lick that glass.
General “Pinpoint” Townes has joined the game.
Gonna need a few of these for my house, and a few more for my vehicles. Never know when this will come in handy. An ounce of prevention and all..
It still hasn’t solved the weather sensitivity, massive cooling and huge power consumption that has plagued every similar project.
But I guess when the US gives free billions to your country. Who cares about the total cost of it all.
Lasers being lasers…wouldn’t this be at risk of zapping things in orbit if it misses?
More israel glaze. It’s only operationally deployed because they are committing a genocide and their victims are resisting. Ukraine provided the first actual wartime usage of laser weaponry for air defense.
it shoots laser beams omg what is this star wars or some dumb shit
Wasnt There something about jewish space lasers a couple years ago? Not that far off
opponent processed to glue on mirrors 🚀
Jew lasers are real!
But, did we get a charge?
Can it burn the color blue yet?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed-energy_weapon_wildfire_conspiracy_theories
Conspiracy theories are always leaks related to something real as a way to discredit any real leaks as just conspiracy theory
All the talk about alien grays was actually bald monkeys with deadly herpes-b virus. Get people good and scared of aliens though and they’ll shoot first and ask questions later was the thinking, instead they got people trying to find and fuck the aliens 👾
Can I get one for my car?
You could use these to vanquish your enemies or personal rivals
I want one for mosquitoes.
Can’t we just write 100 kW?
More great technological innovation that will likely be shared and used for defense in the US as a result of the partnership there.
Your blindness is not service related.
Didn’t South Korea deploy one of those military defense laser systems a couple of years ago? I remember it being amusing because South Korea’s live field testing was just a few days before a scheduled US laser system unveiling.
That fallout year 2077 date sneaking up
Inb4 someone whips out an open source alternative for the guidance system out of an Xbox Kinect and a steam deck
More fake news. Not the first ‘operationally deployed’ LaWS. The first was in 2014 by the US Navy on USS PONCE.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/SEQ-3_Laser_Weapon_System?wprov=sfti1#
But can i light a cigarette with it from a distance?
Automated Laser weapons may be the best defense for swarm drone attacks. Instant hit with no trajectory calculation.
here it is, the Jewish land laser, MTG tried to warm us
The Israelis are pretty good at creating Hell on earth.
First Gaza, and now this.
At what range?
Now that we have ray guns, where is my jet pack?
American tax payer money going to create a safe space for non Americans. So much for America first.
Could you use it to cook a chicken patty? Hypothetically, of course.
Guessing we’ll be seeing chromed out drones next?
RIP Val Kilmer
If you can’t make the housing look like a shark, what’s the point? SMH
MTG be like: “I told you so.” 😏
Man. How BIG ARE THE BUGS to need that zapper?
Also, we can’t have 20mW Laser Pointers, but THIS is fine. Not very fair.
Back to the trenches, lads
I doubt mortars.
Can’t wait until these are shoulder-mounted on bipedal automatons running AI that was vibe coded by a 14 year old.
It also has a secondary feature of killing anyone it is aimed at.
How much can I buy one for my backyard?
Ok, but could we not have flying cars for a few years before inventing the ray guns that can shoot them out of the sky?