Instead, you would use a red laser, which blue surfaces absorb.Another factor is whether a laser is continuous or pulsed. Reflective armoring would make sense only in a frontal attack to a laser defended line where element of surprise is irrelevant.


☺So when will I be able to get an App for my smartphone?I wonder if they realize that making the plane reflective would thwart the laser weapon, and if the plane carried a large corner-cube on its underside, it might even take out the laser weapon itself.Crazy world that we have a convention that stops you blinding a person with a laser, you have to kill them or use conventional explosive or ballistic weapons to do the same job with even more collateral damage to the target person and those around.Great article about lasers that I found to be very informative… Thank you!If aeroplanes are made to reflect lasers, they would light up in radars easily. With this in mind, a laser weapon must be at least 50 percent efficient to be mounted on a ground vehicle and at least 70 percent to be used in an aircraft. In addition, a laser has no recoil, so it needs no heavy shock-absorbing mechanism, and the ammunition is one-dollar-per-shot cheap and inexhaustible, as long as enough power is available.However, lasers also come with some serious disadvantages. What advantages does it have over more conventional hardware? Meanwhile, an imaging camera measures vibrations from the laser platform. The company says that a future 100 kW laser weapon is entirely feasible.Rheinmetall intends to build a 60 kW laser demonstrator and study how to integrate 35mm Ahead Revolver Guns into the system, as well as developing a mobile version.Lasers are still a ways from becoming any type of standard battlefield weapon, but we're a lot closer than ever before.

Air Force, Personal Halting and Stimulation Response (PHaSR). Is it an ICBM ascending from its silo?

4 So what follows can be seen as the highlights of past and present laser weapons programs pursued by different nations, rather than an exhaustive list.During the Cold War, the United States poured millions into laser weapon development (even before the first laser was invented) and since then US defense contractors have worked on projects for fixed ground-based lasers, armor-mounted lasers, shipborne lasers, lasers on aircraft, and even orbital laser weapons. One leading example of this is the Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL) that produces an infrared beam through a reaction between chlorine gas and a mixture of hydrogen peroxide and potassium hydroxide. They can be set to cause exactly the amount of damage desired. Among the other advanced systems of the day, ranging from jet combat drones to 3D-printed robotic dogs are an array of deadly lasers designed for a wide spectrum of targets. Lasers can complement kinetic weapons – never running out of “bullets”, so long as electrical power is available.Laser weapon systems have some key advantages for dealing with drone swarms. A highly integrated design philosophy makes our HEL system more robust, providing lower jitter than other beam control systems.In addition to the four subsystems, future laser systems may also need adaptive optics. The first laser was invented by Theodore Maiman at the Hughes Research Lab, Malibu, California in 1960. More dramatic were Soviet efforts to mount lasers on top of a tank. A beam of electrons is sent through an undulator -- an array of magnets with alternating north and south poles. If you expect to see hand-held laser pistols, don't hold your breath.
The systems have shrunk down to a level where they can fit on ground vehicles, helicopters and ships – platforms that the military actually uses. Instead, it causes it to turn suddenly into a small cloud of ionized plasma. But for higher power lasers in the presence of atmospheric distortion, a separate adaptive optics system is required, including components that are unproven for long term operation in field environments. Image courtesy Flavio Robles/Creative Services Office, This is why burning chemical weapons like mustard gas and maiming weapons like glass shrapnel are outlawed. Just light.