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It turns out that cheap drone weapons are re-energizing research and development of laser weapons<\/a>.\u00a0 Apparently, the differential cost of offensive and defensive missiles is forcing countries to reconsider building defensive laser weapons.\u00a0 Israel\u2019s successful Iron Dome anti-missile system is demonstrating that if an enemy is willing to flood the field with cheap missiles, they can bankrupt the defender using effective but expensive anti-missile missiles.<\/p>\n

Lasers on the other hand after the initial purchase cost of the system uses about ten dollars in electricity per kill.\u00a0 Of course, lasers are limited by weather conditions.\u00a0 The quote from the article says, \u201c\u201cWith lasers, if you can see it, you can kill it; typically rain and snow are not big deterrents,\u201d says Robert Afzal, an expert on lasers at Lockheed Martin. \u201cBut a thundercloud\u2014that\u2019s hard.\u201d\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

And the range of targets is impressive but not unlimited:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u201cA laser of that class <\/strong>(100 kW) can be effective against a wide variety of targets, including cruise missiles, mortars, UAVs, and aircraft,\u201d says Perry. \u201cBut not reentry vehicles [launched by ballistic missiles].\u201d Those are the warheads, and to ward them off, he says, you\u2019d probably have to hit the rocket when it\u2019s still in the boost phase, which would mean placing your laser in orbit. Laser tech is still far from performing such a feat.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Russians, Israelis and Americans all have active fiber laser weapons programs in the 100 \u2013 300 kW range which is the current state of the art.\u00a0 But now that the economic necessity for these systems has been demonstrated I imagine more powerful and multi-weapon platforms can\u2019t be far behind.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kgUnDeED9MM&t=89s<\/a><\/p>\n

Well all I can say is it’s about time.\u00a0 We were promised lasers back in the sixties.\u00a0 Even Dr. Evil had sharks with frikkin’ laser beams back thirty years ago.\u00a0 Slackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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