Test footage of UK DragonFire Laser Directed Energy Weapon
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) Hebrides Laser Directed Energy Weapon (LDEW) end-to-end test 2023 / transition to Maritime LDEW engagement animation. Dstl footage and animation.
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Dstl on 11 March released declassified footage showing the DragonFire demonstrator being tested on the MoD Hebrides range against ‘above the horizon’ targets. While the full range of target sets was not disclosed, Dstl officials confirmed that a Banshee target drone was amongst the air threats engaged.
According to the MoD, the latest end-to-end trials, conducted on the MoD Hebrides range during Q4 2023, successfully demonstrated the ability of DragonFire to track dynamic air targets and deliver high-end effects at range. The LDEW system was tested at various powers against representative air and maritime target at varying ranges, altitudes and speeds.
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Reminds me of the same stuff used on Maui, Hawaii...
it sorta is...I was there for it all. still am...mahalo
@@MisterClear-yc3on 🤙🏼
We getting this before gta 6 💀
😂😂😂
almost everyone makes that joke now
Yall are the reason why we will never gonna be advanced in future
@@stojanbijelovic501 edgy ass dude
The world's first laser anti-aircraft weapon is deployed in Korea!! Intercepting drones with 20kw output, simultaneous and continuous strikes at 30km per second, $1.46 per shot lowest level in the industry
South korea dumbss
wrong,,very bad info
@@MisterClear-yc3oncheck again. Its major news 😂
US also had that in a Carrier and Plane
death star irl achieved
LOL
Uk❤❤❤❤❤
😂😂😂it's bloody useless ..ffs..
@@markwhelan6511 Nah drones are massive in modern warfare, just look at recent wars. This is massive especially with how cheap it is to fire, and is being fitted onto warships.
Britain back on top. It was about time we upgraded our military and defence system
It's not to be deployed lol! It's a basis for further research. Keep dodging those hypersonics
@@maureenmclaughlin9841cope
America has had these for like 20 years lol
@@Antietam92 much more inferior though
@@Antietam92: bought and paid for , Happy MIC, still in the spare parts/ failed ideas boxes though!
POV: mechagodzilla in beta be like
If they can make AESA radars, they can direct this thing to be similarly "pointed everywhere at once."
Anyone else reminded of the Martians' heat ray from war of the worlds? (The book, not Spielberg's steaming turd of a rip-off)
I didn't read the book but I saw the original film from the 1950s. I agree the 2005 remake was bad.
The Jedi jist didnt want to lose their position and power, as Sheev stated.
The Jedi are returning to beat demons
Marvin the martian called ... He wants his disintegrator back!
it's not an effective weapon as the traditional weapons, it's useful for demonstration purposes 🤩
We boutta get real life TLS before GTA 6
Psssst...someone tell MTG about this... Getting popcorn ready!
But are they made in outer space by Jewish people? Still need those elements to complete Marjorie "Trailer-trash" Green's wacko conspiracy theory!
It seems like the beam has to be on the object so long that swarms will be a problem
It would be useful for the ducks in a row with no long range detection over the horizon capabilities.
It seems like they would need a ship with hundreds of them mounted.
@@timjenkinson26 This is only 50 kw. The US is making one that is 300kw mounted on a truck.
@@Fold-103 but again if it's a single beam how will that defend against a swarm attack
Depends on the range of this weapon and the speed of the drones. If it takes 10 seconds to neutralize a threat, it will probably have no problem dealing with many of them. Certainly more than any onboard ready to go missiles.
But with its current output, it can't counter saturation attacks, and the same goes for railguns. But it's a great achievement. Each country is conducting research individually, but if it were the West, wouldn't it be better to form a coalition of the willing and reduce the time and funding sharing between each country to develop AI, unmanned aerial vehicles, 6th generation fighters, etc. Even AUKUS has not proposed joint development. An amateur Japanese person who thinks so. I made this comment knowing full well that the world doesn't run on beautiful things like this.
でも今の出力じゃ飽和攻撃に対抗できない、レールガンもしかり。 しかし素晴らしい成果です。各国とも個別に研究しているが、それこそ西側なら有志連合をを結成して時間と各国の資金分担軽減して開発すればいいのではないか、AI、無人機、第６世代戦闘機等の開発は共同で行おうと提案しているのにAUKUSでさえ提案しない。と考えるアマチュアな日本人。こんな綺麗ごとで世界が動いていないのを重々承知の上でのコメント。
India and Japan working on same technologies such as laser weapons, Railgun,Air defence system etc., both are QUAD GROUP members so they should be jointly developing these weapons.
USA & Australia have a bunch of joint programs. AI, loyal wingman, hypersonic missiles, USV, UUV, etc.
We already share a fighter with you?
What in the Die Another Day is going on here…
Orbital Laser
Big leap for arms market, a small step for BFG 10K
Пока лазер будет нагревать поверхность летающего дрона что бы испортить его, то, дрон с лёгкостью ударит по самому же кораблю за это время. Но у меня есть более эффективный план как сделать этот лазер сверх быстрой как пуля .
Империя падет. ИИСУС ПРИДЕТ
Many countries hv developed their own laser weapon including Isreal,Russia but No countries hv really been able to used it in qctual combat n destroy something.
We're going ACE COMBAT
BUDDY
Silent films are making a comeback! Woohoo!
we are cooked
They are playing ace combat irl
Well that looks like a waste of money
Age well
ahahahahahaha
Dragon fire and ironbeam so far has the best looking laser weapon model!
good to know this is where important tax payer dollars are going
This achievement is brought to you by cats & it's not the musical 😻🐈🐈⬛️☄️
Lol, ultra violet light in the dark, the rest cgi. "Look lasers!" 😂😂
UK no have laser weapons. Cartoons/CGI
Really? They had low power dazzle lasers back in the 80s, it's not that far fetched that they'd be testing a higher power laser today considering so many of them are being developed now.
Rubbish Simulation Video.
Dracaris
May the force be with u luke
Pew pew
The laser draining so much power, it took all the sound away...
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...?
Haha
Lol
ha ha ha
Bit better than our trident test I hope 😜
Our last 2 trident tests 🙈
Missiles fail all the time, that’s why it’s a test, the problem is patched.
What happened or didnt happen? 😂
What's it's adverse weather performance like?
It's British, so excellent.
@@liverush24made in UK.... breaks after one shot. The repair will take half a year.
@@LaMeDLNot like anywhere is different to be fair, remember when that Russian aircraft carrier broke down off the coast of the UK and needed to be towed away?
@@MrJonezy541meanwhile b-17s be flying without elevators
define the question a bit more..I'm an expert in this field..please
seems like the 76mm OTO Melara will be around for a long time ;)
I don't really understand the comment or what you're implying. The Melara fires a pantshitting amount of ballistics ammunition. The whole point of these projects are cheap, theoretically infinite alternatives to reliance on ballistics which are a literal drain on our resources. I will admit that ballistics get better results but we're developing fucking space lasers here, man. The science fiction you inject on a daily basis is built from the concepts these motherfuckers are working on today. Your fantasies and the science-fiction of it isn't science-fiction anymore.
Leonardo is producing both systems.
Complete simulation that's CGI!
No sé porqué de acordé de los incendios en Hawai y Chile.
100kW are not enough. we need 500-1000kW, because they will use reflective paint for their drones.😮
there already made
These flashing lights and fire starting capabilities remind me of the video of the fire starting in HAWAII! Now we know!
And Paradise, California, the Texas panhandle…
Why use expensive blazers when you can use drones?
@@a2bs333it's for anti missile defence. Saves on expensive missiles
@@a2bs333drones with blazers
@@amylyn3223 exactly!
I wonder, who's paying the electricity bill?
$13 per shot according to various news articles
@@uncensored393 - I very much doubt it - even changing a single light bulb within any government department cost the best part of £150 ($190).
@@hadi96100 idk what to say to that
Tax payers
You.
Most or all of that video is a simulation.
I wonder what a drone with a mirror finish would do? Send that beam right back her Majesty lol
His*
Probably scatter the light a bit before melting
this very old tech
they got super weapons dawgggggggggg we are cooked
Haha you need to Google dragon fire laser it's been developed by the UK..
Show this to Styropyro on YT I would not be surprised if he has one at home he does DIY lasers.
I was going to hit like, but there's enough likes already.
Now let’s put it in orbit 👍🏻
Its only 100kw or less
Bs sgi
日本は2種類のレーザー兵器開発してる
Imagine all the fires in the forests across the globe couldve been simply a laser satelite
This mindset is so idiotic. One option is that the government secretly has advanced weapons satellites and randomly fire them at their own people/in completely random places like the yukon.
....Or its lightning or power companies cheaping out on tree pruning/maintenance to save money, in areas that are usually very drought ridden.
One option is so ludicrously overcomplicated, expensive, hard to hide and just generally pointless to even do. The other is, you know. What actually happens...
I mean there was a big wildfire here this week that started next to a steep incline on a road. Id ordinarily assume the brush on the side of the road caught fire from braking/other car sparks and the ridiculously dry vegetation just sparked it out of control, but you know what youve inspired me and now i have decided to believe the CIA is taking out a mountain lion that swallowed classified intel from the lockheed martin compound up the road and masked it as an ordinary brush fire. Now did they use the regular space lasers or the jewish ones...
Does it work on a rubber dinghy?
It still baffles me you guys are literally willing to MURDER innocent people for trying to seek asylum as is their legal right...
Imagine this in space
I am old enough to remember the SDI Programm. 🙂
Imagine isso no Havaí, pois é, eles já fizeram.
Imagine isso na Califórnia nos últimos anos.
Pois é, eles já fizeram.
Vários países tem esta tecnologia.
In essence a sophisticated heat beam that we call a “laser”
Ждём в Украине...)!
how about using mirrors as a defense!
Chinese copy it in it
The crap was that, sure if the stand off range of those missile on the drones is less then the effective range of a laser. The curve of the earth would defeat that laser from most drones or attack boat until the run in.
In heavy rain or fog the effective range would be shorter than gun-based ciws anyways.
@@JWQweqOPDH I know, lasers are very limited I have seen where the US Navy is now turned their laser weapon into a lower power dazzler to disrupt the aiming and nav-tronics of missiles. CIWS, RAM and a few of those hyper fast 35mm or 40mm guns for ranged targets far better and cheaper.
Don't let China copy it
@stunick1573 I guess it's early days. The first ever time a turbo car used in a race in the UK it came last. Now they dominated the market.
@@reallyhappenings5597 China no need that crap. They have real weapons, not CGI
That system is garbage and its NOT practical
And why not?
@@Markus117d 1st) Expense 2nd) The beam has to stay on target for more than 5 seconds 3) Weather may become a factor 4) This is why the U.S. has downgraded the technology
@waynecmontgomery Ok, But firstly it's still underdevelopment as are the US systems, Ie not up to intended capabilities yet, Secondly the UK is not necessarily taking the same approach as the US in what its trying to do.. The US is trying the more power route, While the UK is going for energy density, Ie for example ½ the power but ×2 as concentrated, Basically achieves the same result. And finally the UK seems from the articles and materials published on this, To be less about destroying the threat and more about disabling it, Ie trashing the threats sensors..
@@waynecmontgomery Expensive? The entire development program which isnt just confined to Dragonfire is only £100m.
@@watcherzero5256 Sure that would sound great for a country NOT going through an inflation crisis. Were about 40% of the citizens are now living in poverty
So based
Is the laser strong enough to be visible by the naked eye?
Strength doesn't directly relate. It's the wave length that's important. The shorter, the better.
Infrared red, red, green, blue, ultra violet, x-ray, gamma ray, in that order.