USS Portland Tests High Energy Laser Weapon System in Gulf of Aden
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So just to be more clear, if you made a laser weapon system to stop hypersonic missiles for example..
All the enemy would have to do have to do is make a mirror finish on their missiles using chrome or some other way. Perhaps our military has figured out a way around this.
All mirrors have thermal limits and they do not handle various wavelengths the same.
Yeah I was thinking they might have figured a way to that makes it difficult or impossible to make a surface that can efficiently reflect the beam at certain frequencies or or a mix of wavelengths.
But the laser we were using was really powerful and the mirrors had zero problems as long as we kept them clean.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43228/f-22-raptor-covered-in-mirror-like-coating-photographed-flying-out-of-nellis-afb
Holy shit I was exactly right.
Thanks fren you made my day.
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