Posted on 02/17/2014 7:45:26 PM PST by blam
This discussion reminded me of this incident...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUZu8bvxJs4
Falkland Islands, 1982:
The HMS Sheffield and the Argentinian Exocet missile.
Vicious things... watch how far above the waves this beast was flying...
Actually I didn't say that at all. What I said was as a replacement for point defense (CIWS) an effective range of a mile or two is sufficient. We already have counter measures in place for other uses. Obviously a laser can't be used for anything over the horizon, so it's only utility is CIWS.
"What's your person interest in this fancy toy anyway"?
I don't have a personal interest other than I want the best weapons for the US military that money can buy.
Scary. There weren’t that many defenses against missiles back then. If I recall the first successful (in battle) missile vs. antiship missile intercept was in 1991. We have come a long way and still have a way to go to stay ahead of the Chinese (assuming Hillary doesn’t win or we will just give them the tech).
RE Scary:
Pucker factor of about 175 psi...
RE Chinese: Silkworm, I think their version is called.
That overhead image of the Sheffield, just damn... that thing slammed into it amidships, and just blew the crap out of it.
If memory serves me correctly, the Brits also sank the Argentinian Cruiser General Belgrano by submarine attack... Belgrano was previously the U.S. WWII Cruiser USS Phoenix.
The two sinkings happened within a few days of each other...
It only takes one missile to do the damage that it took a couple squadrons of Dauntless SBD-2D dive bombers and Torpedo bombers and their crews to do to the Japanese carriers Kaga, Akagi, Hiryu, and Soryu at Midway...
Too bad these guys don’t have Dr Benton Quest to help them with the laser.
He made one that was much better than this one almost 50 years ago, it shot down that saucer with the robot spy spider in it.
But it wasnt a shipboard version
OMG! Dr. Zinn’s Robot Spy!!
That episode freaked me out when I was a kid; I thought it was absolutely the coolest thing ever... and then the Mummy episode as well... and the Invisible Monster...
Best show ever...
I saw it first run when very young and then about 50 times again after that. Fantastic. I like where the Mummy kills the bad guys.
The Robot spy"
Dr Quest's laser shot it down trying to fly away with the pictures of the laser:
The Mummy episode was “The Curse of Anubis”. Awesome artwork from Doug Wildey.
I’m not sure it is very black.
It has been under development since 1918 and the Navy has been working on it for perhaps 10 years and have nothing to show for it. Apparently it works but not well enough to be worthwhile
My thought on that: Murphy. He’s everywhere.
Not just that, but the suspenseful and scary (as a kid) background music and sound effects as the mummy took each step: ‘Bamp, Bamp, Bamp, DADA Dum’.
You must recall it on the spot too.
Same is true with the Spy Robot.
That was art.
LOLO,
Shame on you for not flying a missile at a ship and proving that shooting it down too late rains deathly debris on it, before suggesting it here,
Next time try it out before you post an opinion in a comment here.
Is that poster for real?
I think the scattering debris problem is when blowing it up with CIWS or a missile at very short range, like under one mile.
If they used this laser toy under the same dire situation on a incoming missile the debris is likely to be a fully intact missile with some burn etch marks hitting the ship.
I imagine that a spinning missile would sure be hard to keep a fixed point on to burn through it in any single spot, not a problem with the drones they plan on using it for.
The Raytheon system I remember reading about worked by heating the mortar round enough to donate the warhead. Wouldn’t work against say a plain old armor piercing round. If I understand the physics of it and the MDA’s airborne laser a spinning or polished missile didn’t matter. They hit it with so much energy so quickly it can’t dissipate it...boom.
What is MDA’s airborne laser ?
Could you find a source for that on the internet?
Put "airborne laser testbed missile defense agency" into your favorite search engine. Lots of info and pics, a couple of neat videos.
The music was perfectly matched to the Mummy.
Nothing beats the Intro theme... BIG, BIG horns, jazz drums... the works. As a musician myself, that would have been cool to reproduce.
No cartoon out today even comes close.
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