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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 55 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

lasers are way slower than bullets they are super easy to dodge, have you never even seen star wars?

[–] ziggurat@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's phasers, the lasers in star trek at instantaneous... Oh you said star wars

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Star wars uses different physics, you can actually see light move there. Wouldn't work on earth.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

The Star Wars universe must be stuck in an Octarine field, as that makes light move very slowly.

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 47 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 41 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Next thing you know it’s mirrors all the way down.

[–] yumpsuit@lemmy.world 40 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Melt the mirror. Who the fuck does it think it is anyways, shiny things don't belong in the sky.

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Retroreflect back to source. Blows up source.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ok, so use a combo shot with a maser. If the light beam doesn fry the outside, the microwave beam will fry the inside.

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Put a piece of metal behind the mirror.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

Return to sender

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

pew pew pew

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] tal 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

They'd probably need some form of protective eye wear, definitely.

[–] dch82@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks ago

Genuinely curious: can they destroy large swarms of drones given the time to load?

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 4 points 3 weeks ago

MFW it’s a knife missile on SC business, and it’s in a bad mood :O