[inPhase]

no thermal blooming for air platform if you could get any on ax intens at range

wrt TB, dwell time is way too short

even head on

[Laserman]

Thermal blooming develops in a fraction of a second. Fortunately, for moving targets and slewing shots the clearing time is sufficient to mitigate much of the effect/loss. When a target is coming right down your beam, especially for a ground system, the TB problem can be significant, and AO can ony correct a portion of it. Pulsed lasers can do better, but the best is having two systems for mutual defense.