Die Laserwaffen der Armee „ziemlich reif,“ könnte zur Raketenverteidigung der nächsten Generation beitragen – Verteidigung brechen
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/08/armys-laser-weapons-pretty-mature-could-contribute-to-next-gen-missile-defense/
Die Laserwaffen der Armee „ziemlich reif,“ könnte zur Raketenverteidigung der nächsten Generation beitragen – Verteidigung brechen
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/08/armys-laser-weapons-pretty-mature-could-contribute-to-next-gen-missile-defense/
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Keith Krapels, head of the Army Space and Missile Defense Command’s Technical Center, said on Tuesday at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium. “The technologies for laser directed energy right now are pretty mature. … We just need to pull laser directed energy across the finish line … and start producing the numbers.”
I feel like I was reading the same headlines in 2009
Missile defense systems are out. 1200$ a unit, drone fleets are in.
It’s amazing to call any weapon „pretty mature“ without having ever been used in war.
Not like these are nukes either, where ICBMs were a central doctrinal focus for decades.
I’m sure the lasers are very impressive… But calling them mature isn’t it.
the UK had a successful test of its Dragonfire system last year, which is powerful enough to defend against incoming mortar and rocket fire.
I can imagine the scaling up to ballistic missiles is not far off and that’s just about checkmate where MAD and 2nd strike capabilities are a question.
Magnetic railgun tech was abandoned. That being said, launching a solid projectile hundreds of miles at incredible speed wouldn’t care if a laser hit it.
Dropping a titanium rod from orbit would cause the same destruction as a nuke without radiation and no way to stop it, another abandoned idea for how to burn down the next village.