[Gandalf_The_Gray]

Why is it perched atop porta-potties and refrigerators?

The "porta-potties" look like dry bulk storage ISO standard shipping containers. Such are often used for portable, human habitable structures like construction site offices, control centers for military assets, &c. It's done for convenience because the ISO standardization makes it easy to transport by truck, train, air, or ship.

The "refrigerators" look like beer coolers. No seriously they look like power supplies for the Laser modules.

Looks like a good addition to "Iron Dome"!

In similar devices the primary laser is used to acquire the target and measure any diffraction (heat waves) that would affect aiming. Then adaptive optics are used to remove the diffraction when the main laser transmits a full power beam. So why is the primary laser 50% more powerful than the secondary?

Regards,
GtG

[Husker24]

They might well be refrigeration units, I run industrial metal cutting lasers, these lasers are of the CO2 variety, and require a chiller to operate so the resonator and the optics doesn't overheat. It chills water which is pumped around parts of the laser that get hot. Im pretty sure this laser is not a CO2 laser, there would have to be tanks of Helium, Nitrogen and CO2 nearby. No matter what kind of laser it its (chemical?) it is going to have to have a cooling system if its going to pump out even a fraction of that energy.

[Still Thinking]

Yeah, seems like you’d have blooming problems, though if you’re talking low atmosphere (as with a typical drone) maybe the range is such that it’s not a problem. [shrug]

[doorgunner69]

The "refrigerators" look like beer coolers.

Well, these are Germans after all. They have their priorities........

[21twelve]

I imagine those containers are for the equipment. Pretty amazing that such advanced stuff is so portable. Of course to be of any use it would need to be. Let’s hope they stay in the right hands.