South Korea is beginning the mass production of a low-cost laser weapon that has successfully shot down small drones during testing, the country’s key arms agency said Thursday.
These things has to be mobile not to be blown up after firing a single shot, giving away their location. Supplying enough power to fire and cool a laser weapon powerful enough to do what they claim this does, especially with a short enough cooldown period for it to be useful, would be a non-trivial challenge for a stationary platform during peacetime. Doing it on a large scale during live battle with a destroyed electrical grid and on a mobile platform sounds very challenging.
These things has to be mobile not to be blown up after firing a single shot, giving away their location. Supplying enough power to fire and cool a laser weapon powerful enough to do what they claim this does, especially with a short enough cooldown period for it to be useful, would be a non-trivial challenge for a stationary platform during peacetime. Doing it on a large scale during live battle with a destroyed electrical grid and on a mobile platform sounds very challenging.