IDF battletests new RPG Killer.

[the_tyrant]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Ok in theory you use a magnetic beam or some sort to project a stream of diamond particles in to the path of the incoming laser. The particles deflect the beam before being vaporized (ablated). The idea is that you can take all the weight in armor on a vehicle and concentrate it against one or more (depending on number of emitters) threats. Also replacing the armor would be as simple as reloading cartridges of diamond particles.

Obviously multiple threats become a problem, and this system would be so big that is basically needs to be the same size as whatever is shooting at it to be effective.

There is another system that's been tested by Yale that absorbs laser energy as heat. Which sounds great until the vehicle mounted with this melts.

Currently lasers are going to be an anti-missile and anti-aircraft weapon, so mounting some kind of anti-laser defense would be adding defensive weight which is bad for a fighter or strike fighter. At least with a ablative armor beam it could be used as a weapon at close range. Maybe that Yale anti-laser would work on a missile to protect it from having its control surfaces shot off before impact by a Laser-CIWS.

I thought a mirror is good enough

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by the_tyrant

I thought a mirror is good enough

LOL. Yea sure, willing to bet your life on that?

No mirror is 100% efficient. Any weapon sufficiently powerful to damage a military vehicle is going to vaporize a mirror with the bleed through energy.

[Castout]

Been talked and hyped for a while now.

The counter to that is simpler than itself. It has always been like that.

Just another layer to be countered which will after some time. There's no edge that's going to stay ahead forever.