Well the power limitations and cooling issues that were previously considered to be insurmountable have been, so you may be right. I guess the question is can it effectively dispatch missiles headed to jets.

Taking out drones with a tank mounted direct energy weapon seems very feasible or having other shit around that can do that

It’s one of the most financialized and ineffective projects in the entire US military, and that’s really saying something. It’s billed as a hypothetical way for our close allies to use nukes, We would use ICBMs in real nuclear warfare which everyone knows is being stashed actoss Europe and Israel not-so-secretly the F35 shit is LARPing, but anyways conveniently nobody really plans on it since it would result in us getting property damage lol.

Anyways that’s a red herring the real issues is the expense and the production of the parts for it + the amount of time it has to spend being babied by mechanics!

That shit is so unreliable even when it’s not damn near killing the pilots with shitty ejects or weird landings, you want to see a video? It’s Fed up. Guy’s head clearly gets SMASHED against the Fing plane.

It’s way less reliable based on inclement weather than these prototype direct energy weapons.

We have effective weapons programs I don’t feel the need to talk about F35 when it’s so well covered. I can get you democrat, republican, bloodless investor, or communist takes on it

Well I’m basing this off what I’ve seen the Chinese get up to, they have these mounted on trucks so if there is some kind of effective counter like super smoke, idk, inclement weather conditions (lmao), they just don’t roll it out.

Also if these ever get mounted on fighter jets it might be wise to make them part of the automated drone fleets that are gonna be flying in locked formation like Blue Angels. Just don’t send out the laser drones unless necessary idk.

I’m just speculating. You’re stuck buying our shitty F-35s or whatever lol

By the way, you’re really stupid if you’re taking any article that has a big red laser seriously. You should know what a freaking laser looks like man. Grow the FUCK up

You genuinely have poor reading comprehension. Okay let me walk you through this, laser weapons require extremely high grade manufacturing and electronics to produce. China is a leader in this.

Chinese metallurgy is top tier and they have all the rare earth production there as a result. This is very important for battery technology, which is critical for lasers. They will have plasma batteries for aircraft eventually, but that’s not important for this stuff right now. The energy density requirements for aircraft are ridiculous. They may need parallel anti aircraft drones to fly along with next gen fighters that carry directed energy weapons in appropriate conditions.

I’m not debating you point by point your overall view of their military and tech capabilties seems to be from the 90s

You’re just talking to an American who has investment experience, sorry that we care about actual facts instead of Reddit karma. Karma doesn’t depreciate because it’s completely worthless, like you.

I am an American, that’s what I mean about oil refinement silly pants.

The battery stuff is important for understanding China’s going to be the leader in directed energy weapons use in actual warfare. They already have truck-mounted platforms that swivel like pan tilt and zoom cameras.

They are not “stealing tech” lmao we don’t have their metallurgy or automation capabiities now. It’s no longer just a scale issue

Most of those stories are guys whining about agreements they signed, but now regret. Tough shit. Tech transfers happen. Soon China will be the leader in sub 5 nanometer chip foundries, give it a few decades

Anyways expect lots of sodium ion batteries and others to augment the considerable production shift to green tech they’re already in power tools. Lithium ion is also getting much better with lithium sulfur & some cellulise mesh i saw that can triple battery recharges in its lifetime

Sulk and downvote me all you want it’s just another expression of our imperial decline. Online reddit escapism. You probably still think Ukraine is winning.

Your country is becoming like Senegal used to be to us, a source of crude oil to import and a place to export fuel at once. We are DRINKING your MILKSHAKE. 😂😂😂

China is pioneering entire new forms of laser cooling systems. The UK is quite literally catching up.

As proven by China’s ability to build regular coal power plants at a high standards, nuclear reactors, mass manufacture solar to bring costs down and invent new technologies with batteries outside lithium ion such as zinc-hydrogen, flow batteries, even kinetic batteries. They will be the leaders in the modern next gen battlefield control techniques. Look at their new aircraft carrier designs. We can’t even build new aircraft carriers at an acceptable rate.

They created a wave-based power system that will surely be useful throughout Indonesia, where they are also building the world’s fastest high speed rail.

Tell me, what has the left in the UK done for the world lately other than join hands with the right and send money to nazis?

!remindme ten years 🤗

I have seen videos of them using the directed energy weapons on drones out in the field. The Australians have complained about them using this stuff. Try to stay on top of current events if you’re going to try to write about it

They already showed off their directed energy weapons for use against drones. It’s just nothing new to me, sorry that hurts your pride across the pond.

Mao was right, we are a paper tiger. The nukes were bluffs. We will overmilitarize and collapse like the USSR did.