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.
lasers are way slower than bullets they are super easy to dodge, have you never even seen star wars?
That’s phasers, the lasers in star trek at instantaneous… Oh you said star wars
Star wars uses different physics, you can actually see light move there. Wouldn’t work on earth.
The Star Wars universe must be stuck in an Octarine field, as that makes light move very slowly.
Drone mounts a mirror.
Return to sender
The Honor Harrington series says you just forgot to make them “bomb-pumped”, then they’ll work. Glory to the Kingdom of Manticore. If it’s really a classically liberal, benevolent, monarchical, capitalist Utopia, why doesn’t everyone just move there? There seem to be many billions of people in the galaxy who absolutely don’t want to live there.
SHORAD mounts a better mirror
The reflections make the laser grow in intensity between bounces (source: cartoons)
Eventually the laser burns through the shitty drone mirror, mission accomplished
Next thing you know it’s mirrors all the way down.
Melt the mirror. Who the fuck does it think it is anyways, shiny things don’t belong in the sky.
Retroreflect back to source. Blows up source.
Ok, so use a combo shot with a maser. If the light beam doesn fry the outside, the microwave beam will fry the inside.
Put a piece of metal behind the mirror.
Yeah, but the one top (Chad position) looks sexy as hell, while the one on the bottom looks like someone kitbashed it from sprue frames
pew pew pew
Genuinely curious: can they destroy large swarms of drones given the time to load?
MFW it’s a knife missile on SC business, and it’s in a bad mood :O
