CDRMITTENS@sh.itjust.works to NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 15 days agoLaser weapon will always be the superior SHORAD solution over kinetic gun.sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1200arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1195arrow-down1imageLaser weapon will always be the superior SHORAD solution over kinetic gun.sh.itjust.worksCDRMITTENS@sh.itjust.works to NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 15 days agomessage-square21fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·14 days agoFiring a piece of munition that is worth many times the target is a win for the enemy even if you hit it, they can just keep lobbing Ali Express crap at you until you run out of missiles.
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-213 days agoI suspect that a mass-produced shell with a time fuze can be made more-cheaply than a drone. I also kinda suspect that using a pulse laser on a drone runs the risk of eye damage to anyone nearby and looking at the thing, from reflected light.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoThey’d probably need some form of protective eye wear, definitely.
Firing a piece of munition that is worth many times the target is a win for the enemy even if you hit it, they can just keep lobbing Ali Express crap at you until you run out of missiles.
I suspect that a mass-produced shell with a time fuze can be made more-cheaply than a drone.
I also kinda suspect that using a pulse laser on a drone runs the risk of eye damage to anyone nearby and looking at the thing, from reflected light.
They’d probably need some form of protective eye wear, definitely.