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Originally Posted by Oberon
There's also an 'anti-laser' in the works now which should make things interesting in the future.
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What on God's green Earth is an anti-laser? A system for neutralizing hostile lasers?
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Originally Posted by CCIP
That's pretty cool. I could see this being pretty effective against the usual HEAT weapons. Wouldn't do much of anything against a big warhead or a kinetic weapon though, would it...
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It's not made for such applications. It's supposed to defeat infantry-portable AT weapons. I'm still not seeing the point of the system, though. Spaced armor has the same effect at a fraction of the cost, and it doesn't rely upon blowing a large section of the tank's protective layer away to counter one warhead. We learned long ago that volley-fired HEAT weapons were an effective countermeasure to tanks; this system doesn't do anything to fix that. It might work against Islamic insurgents who are all but combat ineffective to begin with, but it's not going to stand up against trained regulars.
I have a suspicion that what we are looking at is a very expensive and all but worthless system peddled to people who don't know any better.