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Laser Weapon Update: Iron Beam 450 Ready to Deploy in Israel
AmmoLand ^ | November 3, 2025 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 11/04/2025 3:56:25 AM PST by marktwain

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Laser weapons are here. Eventually, some equivalent of a rifle will be produced.

Lasers can be a game changer in drone defense.

1 posted on 11/04/2025 3:56:25 AM PST by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Iron Beam 450 image from wikipediacommons

2 posted on 11/04/2025 3:58:04 AM PST by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Can I get one for on top of my car?


3 posted on 11/04/2025 4:02:22 AM PST by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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How fast and how often can they be fire with out major recharging?


4 posted on 11/04/2025 4:03:17 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: marktwain

Plenty of cool physics/optics going on here. I will not discuss more.


5 posted on 11/04/2025 4:06:19 AM PST by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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Id Israel had absolutely obliterated her Arab (not PALEOstinian) neighbors in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982, Intifada I and Intifada II and the many Gaza operations, they wouldn’t need so many advanced DEFENSIVE systems.

Then again, the world prefers stalemates until it erupts again. The important factor is the misguided Ceasefire” concept so prevalent in the ignorant West.

If the Israelis would be allowed to WIN, we would have moved on to better times ages ago.


6 posted on 11/04/2025 4:06:52 AM PST by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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Israel has the strangest names for things.

“Iron”?

It’s literally not “Iron”.

How about “Light Beam”?

The counterattack after October 7th, 2023 was known as “Iron Swords”. There must be something in the Hebrew language or some part of the Torah that I don’t recall that makes “Iron” a thing.

Things I don’t understand include … “Iron”!?


7 posted on 11/04/2025 4:07:08 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (PLAUSIBLY ANTI-SEMITIC POSTS: Hardspunned 90% Nitzy 88% Right_In_Virginia 84% Liz 50% Mac_Truck 32%)
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To: PIF

Sources claim near continuous firing using a sufficient power source.

Hook one up to a 100 kilowatt power source, and it runs for a “long time”.

The time it runs seems to be limited by the need for maintenance of some kind. Might be a day, might be months or years. It does not appear to be hours or minutes.


8 posted on 11/04/2025 4:09:40 AM PST by marktwain
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To: Uncle Miltie

Things I don’t understand include … “Iron”!?


Probably because it has become part of the Iron Dome defensive system.


9 posted on 11/04/2025 4:11:22 AM PST by marktwain
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To: sonova; dfwgator; Red Badger; null and void

[Can I get one for on top of my car?]

Can I get one for on the foreheads of my sharks? 🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈

(asking for a friend...)


10 posted on 11/04/2025 4:11:44 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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Can I get one for the neighborhood squirrels?...............


11 posted on 11/04/2025 4:19:12 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Netz

Israel won the kinetic war, and hamass basically surrendered to dictated terms. I’m good with that. I helped.

But Israel lost the war for minds. More minds were changed in the palestinians’ favor than in Israel’s favor. Mostly by lies repeatedly told. Israel needs to win in the Mind Space too, next time, which has merely been forestalled about 20 years if we’re lucky.

Among the Mind Space Wars we need to fight is in the palestinians’ minds. They need their minds changed for peace to ever occur. I don’t know how to accomplish that, but Israel didn’t seem to fight in that space at all this time.

One way to change their minds is to be a normal military and care less than Jews do about collateral damage. Being historically more careful than any army ever in urban war minimized civilian casualties in the war hamass started and prosecuted with only War Crime tactics. Perhaps (?) with less extreme care for civilian casualties, more local minds would have been changed on their side. In a normal urban war without being as careful of civilian lives as Jews are, about six times as many civilian casualties would have occurred. Would that have changed minds? I don’t know, and leave it to the Israeli government to consider their options.

Certainly, the “hearts and minds” front was lost. It seemed to me that Israel never considered fighting in this space. That was a huge missed opportunity. It’s a lack of vision for how to achieve lasting peace. I understand why. Israel is surrounded by enemies who have been trying to eliminate her from before her founding. The feeling on the street is that they are under siege at all times, and just trying to get enough space to breathe is hard. So, when attacked, they just beat the hell out of the attacker. I’m okay with that part, but still, they need to focus more on changing the brains of palestinians.


12 posted on 11/04/2025 4:23:53 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (PLAUSIBLY ANTI-SEMITIC POSTS: Hardspunned 90% Nitzy 88% Right_In_Virginia 84% Liz 50% Mac_Truck 32%)
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To: Uncle Miltie

“Things I don’t understand include … “Iron”!?”

Well, back then, they didn’t have titanium weapons…


13 posted on 11/04/2025 4:32:44 AM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, it is near the end of the day.)
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To: Netz

Agreed fully!!!!!!! And !!!!!!!


14 posted on 11/04/2025 4:34:22 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: marktwain

Does it come with a Mustang roof mount (please?)


15 posted on 11/04/2025 4:35:12 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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GREAT! Thanks for posting.


16 posted on 11/04/2025 4:49:55 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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The main Israeli failure was not repatriating the tens of thousands of Jordanian invaders in Judea, Samaria and “East” Jerusalem in 1967. Most of those Arabs were only there since the 1948 Jordanian occupation. The feckless Israeli left left them there, and now they are around 2 million


17 posted on 11/04/2025 4:52:41 AM PST by montag813
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“Can I get one for on top of my car?”

You can buy one from the Pet Smart web site. Only thing is you will need a place where to keep the ill-tempered sea bass.


18 posted on 11/04/2025 5:33:37 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz ( Covfefe! )
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To: Uncle Miltie; Ezekiel
Israel has the strangest names for things.

“Iron”?

It’s literally not “Iron”.

How about “Light Beam”?

The counterattack after October 7th, 2023 was known as “Iron Swords”. There must be something in the Hebrew language or some part of the Torah that I don’t recall that makes “Iron” a thing.

Things I don’t understand include … “Iron”!?

Care to comment and enlighten, Ezekiel?

19 posted on 11/04/2025 5:45:25 AM PST by null and void (Trump has 5 kids, 3 baby mamas, a mugshot, lives in government housing, and Liberals still hate him!)
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But Israel lost the war for minds. More minds were changed in the palestinians’ favor than in Israel’s favor. Mostly by lies repeatedly told. Israel needs to win in the Mind Space too, next time, which has merely been forestalled about 20 years if we’re lucky.


Very astute. I see the problem being Israel has a lot of bad assumptions about reality clogging up their political system.

Israel was founded as a socialist state. A lot of Israelis are secular Jews indoctrinated in Socialist ideology, with a lot of “suicidal empathy”.

Hard to defeat your foes if you see them as essentially the same as you, while they see you as vermin to be exterminated.

People raised in different cultures are different.


20 posted on 11/04/2025 5:52:26 AM PST by marktwain
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