Seems like an expensive solution to the drone boat problem. I would think a 50 cal burst would do the trick.
I guess I'm willing to sell my 2,000 square foot house to the navy for $23 million, and it has a pool to boot!
Armies and navies have been shooting bullets out of guns at each other for well over 100 years. Isn’t it obvious that they are obsolete? Yeah, bullets are lethal, but lasers must be far more lethal. Let’s start using them.
I figured out the real reason for them wanting these hypersonic missiles, especially when you factor in the test for them firing a missile from themselves at mach 6 speed:
Aurora
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How long are they going to play this game with lasers? In the 1980s I was working on a frame for a laser that was going to be used by the Navy to shoot down icbms. This can be a very practical weapon but you need a very large power source. Maybe a separate turbine to run just a generator for this. This is not difficult to do if you just do it. The difficulty would be in what the range is a Bissell laser and how much heat can a generate at a distance. The fact that they’ve been doing this for 40 years tells me that they probably can’t do this in our lifetime or, it’s right around the corner. The creation of a Mach 6 missile has been here 4 years and it seems that we are just way too far behind the ability to eliminate this threat
What about clouds, smoke or fog between the laser and target?
Will it work on ICBM’s could solve many problems and set China and Russia back years.