Counterargument:
The US military has in the past used some large vehicle mounted beam weapons that make your skin burn like all hell, such as the Active Denial System, and I wonder if those could be deflected as well or if they’re the part of the spectrum that needs more sophisticated shielding?
Those aren’t lasers, they’re millimeter-wave radio beams.
Yes, they can be deflected pretty easily, but you’ll need metal shield that’s big enough to entirely hide behind.
Laser tanks are impractical. What if the enemy wears mirrored shades? That laser goes right back and kills you instead. You don’t want your 100 million dollar tank to be taken out by a pair of Ray-Bans.
We can put shades on the tank to bounce it right back
Classic,but inappropriate. Tanks should not wear aviators, but big chunky goggle style Warby Parkers on sale $1.89
WAR… is… disco?
Next your gonna tell me the raving rabbits are the ones driving them.
The Army has officially deployed a pair of high-energy lasers overseas to blast incoming enemy drones out of the sky, the service recently confirmed, marking a major milestone for the U.S. military’s ongoing development of futuristic directed-energy weapons.
The 20-kilowatt Palletized High Energy Laser, or P-HEL, “is currently deployed to support the Army’s mission” in an undisclosed location abroad, a spokesman for the service’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office, which manages its directed-energy portfolio, told Military.com.
I think the bigger concern is enemy UAVs wearing shades.
Yay for undisclosed location! Slava Ukraini!
I only we had something we could fire that do almost the same arc as that. That would be ballin’! So I’d call it ballistics
Ridiculous! You would basically need the mass of a planet for that to work.
Dangit! We won’t find that anywhere on Earth!
If you fire a laser against a mirror, it bounces but raises the heat of the mirror so you end up melting the mirror and destroying the drone.
I may risk being too credible here, but a $80 drone is a lot more expendable than a $40m laser tank. The drone can be considered a consumable. Hell, mark the drones down as ammo.
the tank is confused by its own reflection and attempts to fight itself
Alternately, polish every car window facing east.
Or… skip a step. Line of sight is irrelevant if your aircraft is already exploding!
There’s a building in central London that melted a car. Solar laser, so SEO friendly, so on fleek.