Complex integrated attacks require the ability to stop airborne threats at range, defeat swarms, and also deal with close-in pop ups. There’s a need for a layered, tiered mix of high-performing sensors and cost-effective effectors, integrated into a command and control system that can handle a highly saturated air picture - to allow commanders and operators to easily react to complex scenarios. bit.ly/44T7I4p
At the start, i thought that little "brought to you by Raytheon" was a joke, but as it went on it became clear this was a sponsored ad... Very informative sponsored ad, though.
What a time to be alive when Raytheon is supporting YT channels like Task and Purpose. I'm looking forward to General Dynamics putting gamers in the AbramsX.
Always knew this guy was paid by the military industrial complex, I like the channel but its obvious he's getting paid by arms manufacturers and probably governments.
My father worked on the Stars Wars/SDI ground based laser system - specifically adaptive optics to account for atmospheric aberrations so that the laser would stay effective at long distances (your comment at 2:58 - "...beam integrity..."). I remember him showing me, at an MIT-Lincoln Labs open house, a (simple) benchtop version of the 'adjustable' mirror surface system that would change the laser beam for atmospheric 'clutter'. When talking to him a few months ago, before his death, he wondered, figured, that his team's designs/technology probably made it into ground based space-telescope systems.
Correct, our land based telescopes use three or four reference lasers to measure atmospheric jitter. A computer then calculates the required inverse optical device to cancel those aberrations out. Finally, servos in the adaptive optics reshape the optics to match the computer model and now your telescope behaves such that there is no atmosphere. And this process is completed hundreds or thousands of times per second. It's why we're building bigger and bigger land based telescopes instead of launching them into space ala Hubble or JWST.
(I am not a scientist) I'm currently watching and left a comment (that I'm editing as I watch.) I came assuming laser weapons will not be practical until nuclear fusion has been harnessed. That's what I assumed, if a beam's density isn't high enough even a simple cloud's refraction would ruin it. "...mirror surface system that would change the laser beam for atmospheric 'clutter'." That's very interesting and aiming was something I thought of. I liken it to the Coriolis Effect with a bullet (hope that makes sense lol).
@@XXMatt0040XXwell yes and a mirror would destroy the laser if reflected back on itself and original cd ROMs used lasers and mirrors the same way to transmit data and it wasn't compact at first so it was easy to see and eventually got small enough the cd players and writers you see today so the only difference is higher power lasers and they expend energy at the end so different than say a light bulb but sure a mirror would reflect it back on itself
Wow it’s amazing watching this channel grow from a man doing short videos doing what he loves to being popular enough that he gets bought out by raytheon and the military industrial complex 🙌🏽
I read an article many years ago about long-range, atmospheric lasers. A team experimented and determined that three or more weaker laser beams around the main beam would ionize the air and thereby extend the range and effective power of the main beam.
Surefire was working on a similar idea years ago. They were trying to ionize air along a laser beam's path in order to make it conductive. If they'd been successful, you would see a Surefire product very much like a taser but without wires. The early literature I saw clearly described it as it were a Star Trek phaser set to stun. It was a brilliant idea and I wish it had made its way to market.
Actually, 'Star Wars' was a derisive term coined by members of the media that wound up catching on. President Reagan was mocked as 'Ronnie Ray Gun'. While a lot of the tech was impractical for its time, the project was instrumental in breaking the Soviet Union as they struggled to compete with SDI.
Yea, something about starting with a country that got booted out one of their kazakhstan launch pads over not paying rent in the very low 7 figures range, somehow citing them as the inspiration and demand for the technology seems like a totally authentic analysis. Something something lets just shine an overly focused tourch on a weather satellites imaging sensor from Earth, that'll destroy enemy navigation and comms satellites, am i right raytheon engineers???
The multi-layered air defense systems are employing the “Swiss cheese” model. First used to talk about automobile safety, and later during the Covid pandemic, each layer of protection was like a slice of Swiss cheese- it could stop threats but not all of them. But adding multiple layers of protection would dramatically increase the effectiveness of protection.
Being on the first team of soldiers to test the DE-MSHORAD laser system was a wild time. Seeing the damage these systems can do and a whole new way to destroy airborne and potentially ground targets is unparalleled. The biggest thing is that the “ammo” for most of these weapon systems is JP8.
laser weapon technology has always been a interest of mine since my father told me about his time in the army. he was drafted in 69' and got to play soccer for the army the first 2 years but then he had to move on. since he was part of a engineer battalion him and a group of others got "volunteered" for a secret program. he had to sign a 20 year non disclosure act but when he told me about this in the 90's it was not all that secret anymore anyways. so they got shipped off to Texas where they had a job of being the "targets" who where to run around in the desert in trucks with target attached to the back. planes would fly by testing a laser weapon, what he told me was it was not set to maximum so it would leave burn marks but could not destroy metal. i dont know if he is saying the truth but he has a burn mark on his face that he said was when he got hit once. he drank alot and joked he liked to tell this story and make fun of the guys in his camp, being a old time vermont yankee it was a experience meeting all kinds of americans. just my 2 cents on this.
Mount a scanning galvonometer to precisely return beam to sender. Make them more dangerous to the laser operator than the target. The easiest way to destroy a laser is bounce it back directly into it's own aperture.
mirrors absorb about 50% of photonic energy you'd get a reflection but the beam wouldn't be a threat the mirror would likely just melt powerful lasers also emit radiation like X-ray lasers mirror don't reflect X-rays likely the best defense for something like this is a material that can withstand radiation and heat likely a super white ceramic lead infused type material would be more effective than a simple mirror
Bows are being used in Ukraine to launch 40mm grenades. Shush, it's one of their best kept secrets. It's simple recognition that if a simple system works perfectly well. Why spend millions on a high tech replacement? Incidentally, the nemesis of a laser weapon is a mirror. Ask any technician from a laser research laboratory.
This was a GREAT video!!!! I’ve noticed in comments that the general public doesn’t believe these Lasers exist, great to show they do , the deployed laser on 3 US Navy ships show its moving and AI will change this massively!
Dazzling lasers are effective not so much because they're so powerful, but because their targets are so sensitive. A starlink satellite doesn't have a camera to dazzle so it wouldn't be affected. A spy satellite has a very sensitive camera and powerful lens, so any laser light hitting the lens gets amplified and focused onto the image sensor.
The latest pulsed Terawatt Solid State laser weapons are very effective against modern Field Effect Transistor (FET) based Integrated Circuit (IC) electronics because of their frailty against high voltage energy beam attacks. FET voltage weakness is a long standing problem with integrated circuitry that weapons engineers have ignored up til now. But it is great for laser weapon designers.
I've seen elsewhere that high-power lasers are being mounted to certain ships that use nuclear reactors that generate huge amounts of electricity already, so that's a very good fit for the platform.
Stick a few kilowatt range point defense lasers on top of the conning tower of a suppercarrier, and you have something that can slaughter drone swarms, blind the cameras on TV guided missles, blow up submumitions, and destroy light boats. Also, a laser is basically a narrow focus, high fidelity, long range telescope, so you have easy visual identification. Add in a megawatt range chemical electric laser system, and you have something to kill cruse missles.
US military ships being built now have vastly overspec power generation for future incorporation of energy weapons. Or they already have them operable now. Who knows 😂
I love this channel! It really gives an insightful perspective on what sorts of weaponry and technologies different militaries have and what war with them might look like now and in the near future! Thanks a lot 😀👍
Putting a heavier (more powerful) laser is easier on a ground battlefield than in space, so ground up has a huge implicit advantage. Also on the ground you can power it with a huge tank of chemical energy, while in space whatchya got? batteries? Powering those with solar power? Now you've got a huge target on your back your solar pannel?
@@MrBrew4321 you do realize most of those satellites would be nuclear right :-)… yes, you can power laser with chemical energy on the ground but you don’t have to shield a reactor in the vacuum of space:)
Wow. No satellites then no shipping, no aviation, no communications. How many consumer devices and applications are satellite enabled? Great video Cappie.
Although there are treaties against using lasers to blind enemy soldiers it’s an very effective way of neutralizing the enemy. We need to be researching this technology because I’m sure our enemies are.
@@cedriceric9730 Not for people, no. They're considered illegal and used only by illegal combatants. If it's able to blind someone, it's capable of permanent damage.
@@therevolutionary537 We're talking lasers. If a laser can blind you, it's also causing some form of damage with it. Also, a flashbang can actually cause permanent damage to the eyes. It may not fully blind you for life, but there's still some macular damage from getting hit by a flashbang at rare times. They say the worst of the negative effects are "reversible" which means macular laser surgery should be able to fix most of the damage. Let one of those go off a foot from your face and see if you get out unscathed.
China already tried to blind Philippines sailors on their disputed territories not that long ago..not sure exactly what kind of source light it was, but right in line with CCP tactics.
Yesterday a sponsored youtube video convinced me to sign up for Skillshare. Today's sponsored video just convinced me to purchase a 10kW Palletised Raytheon laser for my pick up truck.
I knew a guy who had been an engineer on the original star wars laser project. He said that the program was laughed at publicly, but without mentioning any specifics, he said they had made breakthroughs in both the engineering and in the SCIENCE. He specifically stated that they had physicists on the team who could not explain how the engineers were getting some of the results they had gotten. The physicists had to recognize that a new understanding of light had been discovered. The system was not ready for prime time back then, but he said what they had achieved would allow for practical laser weapons to be developed in the near future. The Russians are sharp all on their own, but if they made any advancements on the laser weapons we came up with, it was because they built on what the U.S. had developed. It's most likely that the Russians paid spies to steal our research information.
Chris - your description of the path to the current state of the art was succinct and spot on - well done as always (I would say Sir, but wouldn't want to insult you that way).
I highly recommend the film "Spies Like Us" for a down-to-earth (no pun intended) take on laser-based missile defense. Dan Akroyd + Chevy Chase are pretty hilarious as deep-cover government patsies.
I remember the Airborne Laser Lab from my days at Kirtland AFB in the late 70's. One of the issues is the massive power requirements for really effective lasers. Ships are a natural for laser platforms, and if you notice, all the latest destroyers have oodles (a technical term) of extra power to power lasers - whenever the Navy gets its laser program to work. We have had deployed laser units on ships for years now It is time to get some that can deal with the cruise missile threats.
They are oxcarts compared to today's tech. Commercial 50kw lasers now have 40% efficiency, so one Abrams turbine engine can power 600kw strong laser. NO more chemical lasers and bulky tech or huge generators. You could put two of the in a cargo plane and nothing will get thru. Commercial laser punches 10 1/2" holes per second in sheet metal and competes with a punching machine in speed! The newest tech is from Star Trek.
I didnt investigate Lahaina . I wish I was a computer social person . I need someone to send me pics so I can see if it was laser I'm an operator years back . What was the weather in Laihana that day, because laser weather will only be mostly clear ,and windy or it wouldn't have worked.
Things have come a long way since the Royal Navy first used lasers mounted on camera tripods to dazzle cameras on soviet Bear aircraft. If memory serves, it was on a Frigate sailing the North Sea back in the 70's and reported in Janes. The first recorded use of lasers in combat would be during the 1982 Falklands War,again by the British Royal Navy.
Now Britain can't keep the lights on! Look how far you've come!.. We all need to achieve democracy in economics or we're all doomed. I'm a 7th generation Canadian of pretty well only British descent... When even our anglosphere is so degraded, we must do something!.. And making people who work the economy those who administrate and control it, is the main way through... Not war.
Impossible! People told me I'm a conspiracy nut for mentioning laser weapons. I just saw that in a movie. All the evidence of its existence isn't real if they say "I don't believe that" and then insult you. That's real science!
gregoryvangaya8971 Eegit! I live in Ireland. I've just come back from UK. Have relatives that live in UK. They have no problems there with keeping the lights on, unlike France which had to draw off the UK, Swiss & Belgian grids last summer and winter to keep their lights on. A lot of our electricity is generated in the UK and we have had no problems. I appreciate that living in Trudeau's Canada that you suffer from a huge democratic deficit but don't assume that the UK, Ireland, NZ or Australia are suffering from the same deprivation of democracy. Oh and Gregory Vangaya sounds very British. You must be of the Highland MacVangaya's 😂🤣
@gregoryvangaya8971 That has absolutely nothing to do with the comment, Tro11 They have come a long way since then. They are doing just fine; no better or no worse than anywhere else in Europe or the West. I've lived here for 27 years and love it. It's a great country. BTW every time I flip the light switch, you know what, the lights come on every single time. T w a t.
I did a double take when Chris announced his sponsor for this video. I thought he was talking about the people who make ear-buds; nope, he was talking about the massive arms manufacturer! 😮😄 What a weird world we inhabit.
Yeah nothing suspicious at all about a video promoting the products of the same global arms producer that sponsored the video. Dude just lost every ounce of credibility.
@@chairmanofthebored6860 Cappy was open and upfront. When you naysayers start making cash donations you might have some credibility. Dudes got bills to pay.
You can actually build those drones for well under 250 bucks. Only the drone is destroyed. The radio and analog or digital goggles are also saved. So it’s a very profitable way to fight
My best friend at the time worked for American Optical on the 747 laser prototype on the aiming system. So recently he mentioned he was working with a small private company developing the concept of not one technically difficult high powered beam but by using 4 achievable parallel beams, out of a quad-head, and the system tries to focus all 4 beams converging on the same spot so that the energy on target is of high enough level to do real damage. The cool thing about this is that can converge at a distant target and as the target approaches the convergent point adjusted to to stay on target. He was telling me it coukd be scaled up where you had a emitter head that could have up to twenty laser emitters stacked so the power could be dialed. Use 3 or 4 emitters for a repurposed hobby drone but use them all for something like a cruse missile
What youre describing is how I perceive AEGIS equipped ships will function when engaging targets. They are always depicted as individually targeting objects. But I suspect that they will converge multiple beams on on target to reduce time-to-kill. This has implications for countering swarms where time spent on any one target is a precious commodity.
"Sponsored by Raytheon" !?! Bro, are you serious? This is You Tube. How did they even approach you to ask if you would do this video? I'm asking for some friends on Maui.
I think one of my favorite uses is the air defense ability of lasers taking out drones, incoming rockets, missiles, and aircraft. Especially if they are more effective than current reactive armor, lighter faster tanks able to counter ATGMs. If they are not more effective, they still will be an excellent added layer of defense on top of the reactive armor. Depending on the mission, you could have a lighter faster tank easier to transport or go over bridges and such and still have a defense against ATGMs or if you need a full assault you add the reactive armor sacrificing speed. Lasers per shot are a cheap way to keep our soldiers safe and make their equipment more deadly. Edit: He mentioned one such technology, the Raytheon HEL. IF it works as advertised, that would give vehicles a huge advantage. Especially since ammunition for the HEL is as long as you have power and as I mentioned the cost per shot is change in the pocket. Tanks get a huge boost when it comes to the question of their relevancy if it had such a defense.
Ironically the T-14 Armata could be a predecessor of future robo-tanks that are small, light, and remotely controlled (and able to navigate themselves, only requiring humans to decide targets and set ground objectives).
Future missiles, drone and aircraft will just have a super reflective coating designed to reflect nearly the whole infrared spectrum and make lasers useless as a defensive tool. We already have the technology to surface coat metals with extremely thin ceramic coatings so it wouldn't take too much to alter the ceramics to a mirror finish. You'd then have an extremely heat resistant coating that could reflect most of the energy away from the metal and make the laser worthless at that point.
@@Talishar SURE? Laser cuts mirror finish stainless sheet for me daily. They are pulsed at high frequency and power, so they strike with such force that mirror will not stop them. 50kw laser cuts metal inches thick. NOTHING can stop 500KW power output at several miles, already in testing . If the speed of cutting holes is indicator, they should be able to destroy 5-10 drones PER SECOND. Learn the tech then speculate.
@@panan7777 I know the tech better than you. I'm literally in the industry trying to develop and deploy these systems. Your system that you have is a specially calibrated laser specific to your material. Initiating cuts has to be done extremely carefully as some of that energy is reflected outward and is a danger to everything around it until the metal starts to melt. Your aperture is also only a millimeter away from the material, not miles away. It's going to be fired in atmosphere and not vacuum so it'll incur serious amounts of loss going across distances. This video shows these systems being deployed on test drones and it still takes 10-15 seconds of focus to destroy the drone that's not setup to counter direct energy weapons at all. A missile that's designed to counter it will take far longer and then, to make it even more difficult to take out with a laser, they just need to make the missile roll while in flight so the laser can't focus on a single spot anymore which the U.S. already has such a missile and has had it for decades to counter IR/RF jamming. Many researchers are already pushing to put the focus on the much more sensitive seeker head on missiles or the electro optics of the drones as you don't have to physically burn those modules down in order to disable them.
@@Talishar Not to mention the power requirements need right? I've heard thats a large issue they still havent found a work around for. Would you say that is something they are any closer to resolving?
I love your videos, and I love the way you integrate your commentary with fact. The only thing that bothered me about this particular one, although you did at the beginning, announced that you were Sponsored by Raytheon, is that the only laser system that you mentioned was theirs. Generally, I’ve seen, you would mention more than one provider when you talk about weapon systems. Please keep up the good work, just my thoughts.
That's b/c this is a corporate PR piece by Raytheon, paid for by them to have Cappy present it with his usual brand and production values. See my separate comment above for things Cappy could not afford (literally) to do in this video.
@@dakaodoyep. I commented much the same. He's become a corporate shill by taking a Raytheon sponsorship. Every word he says from now on should be suspect.
The US Navy has already field tested a laser point-defense system, AN/SEQ-3 Laser Weapon System, on the USS Ponce and USS Portland. While it was run on low power (150 KW), it demonstrated its incredible effectiveness against drones, drone ships and aircraft. The system was designed to be scalable for use against a number of threats, from dazzling people, to shooting down planes. The system worked very well and newer, more powerful systems are being produced, while it is rumored that such systems are already produced. The threat of hypersonics, demonstrated as far overstated by their performance in the Ukraine War, is greatly diminished if one understands the practical applications of the laser systems the US has developed. It is something of a humorous happenstance when one considers the time, effort and PR the Russians have used to develop very limited hypersonics when the answer to them (if they worked as advertised), had already been developed by the US that is much cheaper than the costs the Russians sank into their overrated missiles. It is demonstrative of what happens when a nation cannot compete with another in terms of resources, and sinks its hopes in a couple revolutionary weapon systems... and expects that no one will adapt to them in the lead-up to functionality.
The DEW developments are getting awesome from a frightening perspective. With lasers that can smoke objects from miles away and ones that can make sound from a distance are astonishing. Imagine burning the enemies AD then transmitting voices across the battlefield for psyop, or making the sound of a flashbang detonating at 100 times a second right next to the enemies head...we really get imaginative when we wanna kill somebody 🤔
The counter to a laser is one of the oldest tools known to man. A mirror. Seriously, a laser assembly of this size has dozens to even hundreds of them internally to help focus and direct the energy outwards. This means that you can just use a mirror to reflect most of the energy away and keep what's underneath relatively safe. It'd take a laser in the terawatts or even petawatts range at least to get the kill parity we have now with weapon systems not designed to counter lasers.
NFW, Yeah lets show the people who's lives we destroyed who helpped fund this like the rest of America who will feel the effects from our traitorist government I need to get out of here this country has flipped to beyond crazy.
The nightmare scenario is small cheap drones that drop those little mortars, where the drones use AI to navigate *and* choose targets (does it have a Z on it?) without “phoning home” so they can’t be jammed. For the price of these laser systems you could build 100s and saturate. Probably a good time to invest in a counter drone drone that hunts other drones autonomously. Like a 10 gauge with wings, camera and computer type cheap system. Oh lord the future is going to suck. I don’t think it would even be that hard.
I think more cheap and passive systems will arise out of this. All of the more expensive active countermeasures will still be there ,but the price and maintenance will reduce their effectiveness. I.e. (It's too expensive so, we will buy fewer of them) witch in turn makes them MORE expensive. But I'm interested in seeing how this developes.
Nah, they will just change the nature of armor. Instead of (or in addition to) materials to protect against kinetic weapons, there will be a reflective or refractive surface, or coating that will render the lasers ineffective.
Sandboxx did a pretty good segment about lasers in warfare. He brought up a good point about why they're a bit of a ways from being effective countermeasures for missiles, especially hypersonic missiles. It takes a lot of power and exposure to the laser and for something traveling at hypersonic speeds, that presents a challenge, and even if you could get the laser on target, if it spins, it gets that much harder to bring it down.
However I am happy you have been accepted into the high stakes community. I myself have stock in Lockheed. Martin. And want to by more. Eisenhower was wrong , we need All our People to defend us . Thanks cappy
For the book readers amongst yer, Dale Brown (auther of 'Flight of the Old Dog') wrote a few fiction novels looking with a fairly expert eye at credible low orbit space weapons. I think the first in that series is *Starfire* He predicts parts of what Chris Cappy's talking about here
It's one thing to have a layered laser defense which is static and another to have one that is capable of being fluid in a dynamic BF enviro. If we value effective combined arms tactics it is absolutely imperative the same apply to the above systems leaving no gaps over the areas of engagement. It cannot be stressed enough the need for all the elements on the BF to have tight interoperability given the potential of asymmetric activity to upset achieving objectives.
This is a very interesting topic and I enjoy your commentary but the sponsorship from Raytheon really muddied the waters in my opinion. I appreciate the transparency at least but it's hard to believe your analysis is objective with war profiters pay for your content. Raytheon isn't trying to sell these weapons to us, so we have to wonder what their motivation is in sponsoring this content. I'm not trying to be accusatory and I do understand that you need sponsors to continue your operation but I think you should consider how certain sponsors might hurt your credibility going forward.
They simply can afford it and if you're a fan of cappie why cant they?? American UA-camrs need support too because you bet americas enemies are doing much worse with theirs
US government as it stand are still using ambiguous and generalize language in their budget proposal still....PS...US Navy could use a military jet that can fly better than Mach 2....and can carry a duel laser/rail gun weapon system.
In your layered defense graphic - you're missing the Cost per Kill. And maybe the Gross Vehicle & Payload Weight. Those two factors are the interesting ones to determine position and coverage within the layered defense.
Cappy, big fan of the channel and this is interesting content as always, but please, no more Raytheon commercials. I come looking for relatively unbiased content, which you’ve always given in the past.
just a correction. carbon fiber is incredibly heat tolerant. they use them for racing brakes in formula 1, indy and nascar. The issue isnt the carbon fiber its the carbon matrix and the epoxy used to bond the layers.
There quite a few different ways to build carbon fiber that is heat resistant… and a few that aren’t, I’m sure most of the comments you will receive are from the people whose experience is in the kinds that aren’t
They can burn cities like paradise santa rosa maui and canada as well with them. Amazing only recent fires can melt steel brick concrete and Porcelain. Not a brick left yet the trees are left untouched.
I seriously don't get conspiracy theroist. If the government wanted to rebuild the city of Maui into a smart city then why use a expensive wepon (assuming it exist) do it and risking giving away there secrets. Can't do it do normally.
And again currently laser aren't that powerful to do such damage and if you believe the government somehow have somehave some futuristic tech do so then why bother working in the shadows and rule with a iron fist.
Complex integrated attacks require the ability to stop airborne threats at range, defeat swarms, and also deal with close-in pop ups. There’s a need for a layered, tiered mix of high-performing sensors and cost-effective effectors, integrated into a command and control system that can handle a highly saturated air picture - to allow commanders and operators to easily react to complex scenarios. bit.ly/44T7I4p
Thank you for making a source so available for us to read.
At the start, i thought that little "brought to you by Raytheon" was a joke, but as it went on it became clear this was a sponsored ad...
Very informative sponsored ad, though.
I'm gonna go with 'Russian things that don't work nearly as well as they say it does' for $500, Alex.
@@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing I'm gonna go with "paid sponsorship from Raytheon that destroys all credibility this channel ever had for $1000, Alex"
@@WindFireAllThatKindOfThingI'm going to go with the United States bring peaceful democracy to the Middle East and Africa for $2,000 please
What a great sponsor spot. Really hits the target audience. I'll definitely be purchasing probably the 15 kW laser for placement on my roof.
I know I watt one.
There is only one rule in YouTubing: Secure your bag
@@banellie Why would procurement officers watch a youtube video about laser weapon tech?
Im waiting for the affiliate link 😂
@@banelliewe are also the target. Influencing the masses influences government policy due to public pressure.
What a time to be alive when Raytheon is supporting YT channels like Task and Purpose. I'm looking forward to General Dynamics putting gamers in the AbramsX.
Crankin 90s in a crisis battlesuit
Its the company from the meme 😅
I spilled my drink lmfao 😂
Always knew this guy was paid by the military industrial complex, I like the channel but its obvious he's getting paid by arms manufacturers and probably governments.
All the gun tubers critical of globohomo and Israel: Raid shadow legends.
The Jewish guy who loves the current thing: RAYTHEON.
My father worked on the Stars Wars/SDI ground based laser system - specifically adaptive optics to account for atmospheric aberrations so that the laser would stay effective at long distances (your comment at 2:58 - "...beam integrity..."). I remember him showing me, at an MIT-Lincoln Labs open house, a (simple) benchtop version of the 'adjustable' mirror surface system that would change the laser beam for atmospheric 'clutter'. When talking to him a few months ago, before his death, he wondered, figured, that his team's designs/technology probably made it into ground based space-telescope systems.
Correct, our land based telescopes use three or four reference lasers to measure atmospheric jitter.
A computer then calculates the required inverse optical device to cancel those aberrations out.
Finally, servos in the adaptive optics reshape the optics to match the computer model and now your telescope behaves such that there is no atmosphere.
And this process is completed hundreds or thousands of times per second.
It's why we're building bigger and bigger land based telescopes instead of launching them into space ala Hubble or JWST.
@@MostlyPennyCat Yup, that's the functionality of the system that my father described/worked on.
(I am not a scientist)
I'm currently watching and left a comment (that I'm editing as I watch.) I came assuming laser weapons will not be practical until nuclear fusion has been harnessed. That's what I assumed, if a beam's density isn't high enough even a simple cloud's refraction would ruin it.
"...mirror surface system that would change the laser beam for atmospheric 'clutter'." That's very interesting and aiming was something I thought of. I liken it to the Coriolis Effect with a bullet (hope that makes sense lol).
@Armadous what do you think? 😉
@@XXMatt0040XXwell yes and a mirror would destroy the laser if reflected back on itself and original cd ROMs used lasers and mirrors the same way to transmit data and it wasn't compact at first so it was easy to see and eventually got small enough the cd players and writers you see today so the only difference is higher power lasers and they expend energy at the end so different than say a light bulb but sure a mirror would reflect it back on itself
Wow it’s amazing watching this channel grow from a man doing short videos doing what he loves to being popular enough that he gets bought out by raytheon and the military industrial complex 🙌🏽
I read an article many years ago about long-range, atmospheric lasers. A team experimented and determined that three or more weaker laser beams around the main beam would ionize the air and thereby extend the range and effective power of the main beam.
Kind of like the lasers the alien ships used in ID4 huh?
Surefire was working on a similar idea years ago. They were trying to ionize air along a laser beam's path in order to make it conductive. If they'd been successful, you would see a Surefire product very much like a taser but without wires. The early literature I saw clearly described it as it were a Star Trek phaser set to stun. It was a brilliant idea and I wish it had made its way to market.
Actually, 'Star Wars' was a derisive term coined by members of the media that wound up catching on. President Reagan was mocked as 'Ronnie Ray Gun'.
While a lot of the tech was impractical for its time, the project was instrumental in breaking the Soviet Union as they struggled to compete with SDI.
👍That's my understanding, too; SDI was Economic Warfare.
I always like "Ronnie cocaine cowboy" instead
@@joshlewis575 I don't know if you're right or left, but that nickname just makes me love Reagan more.
@@joshlewis575 I never heard that one!
I always preferred Reagan's Nom De Guerre "Ronbo", after a derisive political cartoon published in the mid-80s. It was like a badge of honor
There's some feeling I get from hearing "sponsored by Raytheon" that I can't even begin to describe.
Yes you can. It's called betrayal. This is a commercial for Raytheon, at the low cost of all credibility he ever had.
Yea, something about starting with a country that got booted out one of their kazakhstan launch pads over not paying rent in the very low 7 figures range, somehow citing them as the inspiration and demand for the technology seems like a totally authentic analysis. Something something lets just shine an overly focused tourch on a weather satellites imaging sensor from Earth, that'll destroy enemy navigation and comms satellites, am i right raytheon engineers???
@@chairmanofthebored6860 Whatever. You don't have the skills to knock down a hypersonic missile, and it makes you jelly.
You can thank those evil defense companies for us being light years past our enemies
When I hear "Raytheon" I think of disabled black trans lesbians in wheelchairs who control UAV's that drop bombs on Arab families. So diverse!
The multi-layered air defense systems are employing the “Swiss cheese” model. First used to talk about automobile safety, and later during the Covid pandemic, each layer of protection was like a slice of Swiss cheese- it could stop threats but not all of them. But adding multiple layers of protection would dramatically increase the effectiveness of protection.
Being on the first team of soldiers to test the DE-MSHORAD laser system was a wild time. Seeing the damage these systems can do and a whole new way to destroy airborne and potentially ground targets is unparalleled. The biggest thing is that the “ammo” for most of these weapon systems is JP8.
I look forward to the dystopia where my ammo count is measured in shots per gallon! 😅
So we are shooting things with oil 😂
What's JP8?
@@zippyparakeet1074 the type of fuel the US military uses for almost every vehicle and generator. It’s a type of diesel.
@@jscoutoa i see. Thanks for answering. A follow up, what approximately is the cost difference between it and civilian fuel?
laser weapon technology has always been a interest of mine since my father told me about his time in the army.
he was drafted in 69' and got to play soccer for the army the first 2 years but then he had to move on. since he was part of a engineer battalion him and a group of others got "volunteered" for a secret program. he had to sign a 20 year non disclosure act but when he told me about this in the 90's it was not all that secret anymore anyways. so they got shipped off to Texas where they had a job of being the "targets" who where to run around in the desert in trucks with target attached to the back. planes would fly by testing a laser weapon, what he told me was it was not set to maximum so it would leave burn marks but could not destroy metal. i dont know if he is saying the truth but he has a burn mark on his face that he said was when he got hit once. he drank alot and joked he liked to tell this story and make fun of the guys in his camp, being a old time vermont yankee it was a experience meeting all kinds of americans. just my 2 cents on this.
Will be interesting to start seeing mirror surfaced drones!
my thoughts exactly, just put a mirror on the drone.
Mount a scanning galvonometer to precisely return beam to sender. Make them more dangerous to the laser operator than the target. The easiest way to destroy a laser is bounce it back directly into it's own aperture.
It would have to be a “perfect” mirror with 100% reflection. Even with 99% reflection the a laser could damage.
Mirrors don't reflect all energy and break easily. Once a small piece is missing it becomes useless.
But it's a strategy worth exploring.
mirrors absorb about 50% of photonic energy you'd get a reflection but the beam wouldn't be a threat the mirror would likely just melt powerful lasers also emit radiation like X-ray lasers mirror don't reflect X-rays likely the best defense for something like this is a material that can withstand radiation and heat likely a super white ceramic lead infused type material would be more effective than a simple mirror
Thanks!
This is an incredible video and even more relevant than it already knows because super conductors at room temp are now being developed
We really live in peculiar timeline where we will have lasers, traditional weapons like AKs and bows in use (in some parts of the world)
we are seeing either the beginning of Fallout, or Starfield
from what little I know of Starfield, either way, Earth aint looking too good lol
bows. In the russia army?
@@ch3cksund3ad The beginning of Ace Combat would be more fitting.
Bows are being used in Ukraine to launch 40mm grenades. Shush, it's one of their best kept secrets.
It's simple recognition that if a simple system works perfectly well. Why spend millions on a high tech replacement?
Incidentally, the nemesis of a laser weapon is a mirror. Ask any technician from a laser research laboratory.
@@ubersuperboss7761pretty amazing Ukraine is getting their ass kick from just shovels and bows and arrows right bud?
This was a GREAT video!!!! I’ve noticed in comments that the general public doesn’t believe these Lasers exist, great to show they do , the deployed laser on 3 US Navy ships show its moving and AI will change this massively!
Dazzling lasers are effective not so much because they're so powerful, but because their targets are so sensitive. A starlink satellite doesn't have a camera to dazzle so it wouldn't be affected. A spy satellite has a very sensitive camera and powerful lens, so any laser light hitting the lens gets amplified and focused onto the image sensor.
It is all about wavelength and power - as far as "doesn't have a camera to dazzle"...... as far as you know ( to quote Fletch) .....
The latest pulsed Terawatt Solid State laser weapons are very effective against modern Field Effect Transistor (FET) based Integrated Circuit (IC) electronics because of their frailty against high voltage energy beam attacks. FET voltage weakness is a long standing problem with integrated circuitry that weapons engineers have ignored up til now. But it is great for laser weapon designers.
Not counting refraction from going from the ground through the atmosphere. I would 100,000:1 odds it hardly works whatsoever, if at all.
Not a military person, but
I've been watching your channel for awhile now . Love your dedication man
My wife is a Phalynx design engineer at Raytheon. Her reaction to the phrase, “Spray and pray” was visceral, and quite entertaining. LOL! 🤣😂🤣😂
She should have had an opsec conversation with you before you told the world.
I've seen elsewhere that high-power lasers are being mounted to certain ships that use nuclear reactors that generate huge amounts of electricity already, so that's a very good fit for the platform.
Stick a few kilowatt range point defense lasers on top of the conning tower of a suppercarrier, and you have something that can slaughter drone swarms, blind the cameras on TV guided missles, blow up submumitions, and destroy light boats. Also, a laser is basically a narrow focus, high fidelity, long range telescope, so you have easy visual identification. Add in a megawatt range chemical electric laser system, and you have something to kill cruse missles.
US military ships being built now have vastly overspec power generation for future incorporation of energy weapons. Or they already have them operable now. Who knows 😂
@@greebj it's partly future proofing, but largely about dealing with jamming
I love this channel! It really gives an insightful perspective on what sorts of weaponry and technologies different militaries have and what war with them might look like now and in the near future! Thanks a lot 😀👍
Yes,sponsored content from the company that makes all of the technology present in this video shouldn't make you suspicious at all.
0:01 Cappy is the most valuable part of the military/industrial complex
Yep. His soul is obviously worth less than what they offered him.
@@chairmanofthebored6860 Nope.
Wait until the satellites fire back. I always felt like I'd live long enough for SkyNet to finally kick in.
Putting a heavier (more powerful) laser is easier on a ground battlefield than in space, so ground up has a huge implicit advantage. Also on the ground you can power it with a huge tank of chemical energy, while in space whatchya got? batteries? Powering those with solar power? Now you've got a huge target on your back your solar pannel?
That can only happen if built with AI... but they aren't.
@@MrBrew4321 you do realize most of those satellites would be nuclear right :-)… yes, you can power laser with chemical energy on the ground but you don’t have to shield a reactor in the vacuum of space:)
@@Matt-yg8ub YIKES! so... when we blow them up they would scatter nuke debris all over?
Wow. No satellites then no shipping, no aviation, no communications. How many consumer devices and applications are satellite enabled? Great video Cappie.
Chappy what can I say, Your a rock star . Keep those videos coming.
Although there are treaties against using lasers to blind enemy soldiers it’s an very effective way of neutralizing the enemy. We need to be researching this technology because I’m sure our enemies are.
Permanent blinding lasers is whats forbidden, there are plenty of blinding lasers in use
@@cedriceric9730 Not for people, no. They're considered illegal and used only by illegal combatants. If it's able to blind someone, it's capable of permanent damage.
@@TalisharStare at a flashbang and see what happens. Temporary blindness is allowed.
@@therevolutionary537 We're talking lasers. If a laser can blind you, it's also causing some form of damage with it. Also, a flashbang can actually cause permanent damage to the eyes. It may not fully blind you for life, but there's still some macular damage from getting hit by a flashbang at rare times. They say the worst of the negative effects are "reversible" which means macular laser surgery should be able to fix most of the damage. Let one of those go off a foot from your face and see if you get out unscathed.
China already tried to blind Philippines sailors on their disputed territories not that long ago..not sure exactly what kind of source light it was, but right in line with CCP tactics.
Maui has a DEW site
In Star Trek the phasers of the ship almost never got the job done. They always had to use the photon torpedoes to do the trick. Just sayin....
ya, but you had to lower the shields to use 'em
Yesterday a sponsored youtube video convinced me to sign up for Skillshare. Today's sponsored video just convinced me to purchase a 10kW Palletised Raytheon laser for my pick up truck.
Totally made pew pew laser and explosion sounds in my head when watching this.
It really is funny that lasers mounted on airplanes originally developed to shoot down nukes changed into drone defense systems mounted on APCs.
an that al this laser defence are goint to render air power inefective
I knew a guy who had been an engineer on the original star wars laser project. He said that the program was laughed at publicly, but without mentioning any specifics, he said they had made breakthroughs in both the engineering and in the SCIENCE. He specifically stated that they had physicists on the team who could not explain how the engineers were getting some of the results they had gotten. The physicists had to recognize that a new understanding of light had been discovered.
The system was not ready for prime time back then, but he said what they had achieved would allow for practical laser weapons to be developed in the near future.
The Russians are sharp all on their own, but if they made any advancements on the laser weapons we came up with, it was because they built on what the U.S. had developed. It's most likely that the Russians paid spies to steal our research information.
These could take out a whole island.
Great stuff brother keep up the great work Chris.
Chris - your description of the path to the current state of the art was succinct and spot on - well done as always (I would say Sir, but wouldn't want to insult you that way).
I highly recommend the film "Spies Like Us" for a down-to-earth (no pun intended) take on laser-based missile defense. Dan Akroyd + Chevy Chase are pretty hilarious as deep-cover government patsies.
You guys have a tent?
@@JiveCinema The Bar-Kays were having a tough time getting gigs
They did. Hawaii is an example
Paradise, CA
I remember the Airborne Laser Lab from my days at Kirtland AFB in the late 70's. One of the issues is the massive power requirements for really effective lasers. Ships are a natural for laser platforms, and if you notice, all the latest destroyers have oodles (a technical term) of extra power to power lasers - whenever the Navy gets its laser program to work. We have had deployed laser units on ships for years now It is time to get some that can deal with the cruise missile threats.
They are oxcarts compared to today's tech. Commercial 50kw lasers now have 40% efficiency, so one Abrams turbine engine can power 600kw strong laser. NO more chemical lasers and bulky tech or huge generators. You could put two of the in a cargo plane and nothing will get thru. Commercial laser punches 10 1/2" holes per second in sheet metal and competes with a punching machine in speed! The newest tech is from Star Trek.
@@panan7777 OXCART is the fastest airplane in history 🤦♂️🤣
Congrats on the 1 million subscribers by the way
Great ways to start fires 🔥 and help with depopulation. Fantastic 👏
How many lasers does Blackrock have
@@boriscook6817 alot
I didnt investigate Lahaina . I wish I was a computer social person . I need someone to send me pics so I can see if it was laser I'm an operator years back . What was the weather in Laihana that day, because laser weather will only be mostly clear ,and windy or it wouldn't have worked.
I have one pic of Maui forest with a helium neon pointer and the invisible actual. It looks real to me . anyone else see it?
M&aui, Ca&lifornia, ext.
Things have come a long way since the Royal Navy first used lasers mounted on camera tripods to dazzle cameras on soviet Bear aircraft. If memory serves, it was on a Frigate sailing the North Sea back in the 70's and reported in Janes. The first recorded use of lasers in combat would be during the 1982 Falklands War,again by the British Royal Navy.
Now Britain can't keep the lights on! Look how far you've come!.. We all need to achieve democracy in economics or we're all doomed. I'm a 7th generation Canadian of pretty well only British descent... When even our anglosphere is so degraded, we must do something!.. And making people who work the economy those who administrate and control it, is the main way through... Not war.
Impossible! People told me I'm a conspiracy nut for mentioning laser weapons. I just saw that in a movie. All the evidence of its existence isn't real if they say "I don't believe that" and then insult you. That's real science!
gregoryvangaya8971
Eegit! I live in Ireland. I've just come back from UK. Have relatives that live in UK. They have no problems there with keeping the lights on, unlike France which had to draw off the UK, Swiss & Belgian grids last summer and winter to keep their lights on. A lot of our electricity is generated in the UK and we have had no problems.
I appreciate that living in Trudeau's Canada that you suffer from a huge democratic deficit but don't assume that the UK, Ireland, NZ or Australia are suffering from the same deprivation of democracy.
Oh and Gregory Vangaya sounds very British. You must be of the Highland MacVangaya's 😂🤣
Lt. Cmdr. Mayo, USN attaché to the Royal Navy called it, “give ‘em the ol’ razzle dazzle.”
@gregoryvangaya8971
That has absolutely nothing to do with the comment, Tro11
They have come a long way since then. They are doing just fine; no better or no worse than anywhere else in Europe or the West. I've lived here for 27 years and love it. It's a great country.
BTW every time I flip the light switch, you know what, the lights come on every single time. T w a t.
I did a double take when Chris announced his sponsor for this video. I thought he was talking about the people who make ear-buds; nope, he was talking about the massive arms manufacturer! 😮😄 What a weird world we inhabit.
Yeah nothing suspicious at all about a video promoting the products of the same global arms producer that sponsored the video. Dude just lost every ounce of credibility.
@@chairmanofthebored6860well he's an US American ex soldier who is talking about geopolitics so there wasn't much to begin with
@@chairmanofthebored6860 Cappy was open and upfront. When you naysayers start making cash donations you might have some credibility. Dudes got bills to pay.
@@chrisbyers6084 boo hoo. Couldn't care less. It is impossible to have an unbiased opinion when you're shilling for the MIC.
I thought he was joking
"my partner, Raytheon..." damn bro. Congrats! You're doing so well :)
Love your videos. Some of the most informative and entertaining .🎉🎉🎉
You can actually build those drones for well under 250 bucks. Only the drone is destroyed. The radio and analog or digital goggles are also saved. So it’s a very profitable way to fight
Cost effective or profitable?
Well, now you need to coat them in chrome to deflect those lasers, that will drive up cost!
@@tellyboy17umm... It doesn't work like that. And covering shit in chrome would be very inefficient for cost.
Invest in drone and laser manufacturers now.
@@tellyboy17 will see how well russian laser defense works, my money is on it not working at all
My best friend at the time worked for American Optical on the 747 laser prototype on the aiming system.
So recently he mentioned he was working with a small private company developing the concept of not one technically difficult high powered beam but by using 4 achievable parallel beams, out of a quad-head, and the system tries to focus all 4 beams converging on the same spot so that the energy on target is of high enough level to do real damage. The cool thing about this is that can converge at a distant target and as the target approaches the convergent point adjusted to to stay on target.
He was telling me it coukd be scaled up where you had a emitter head that could have up to twenty laser emitters stacked so the power could be dialed. Use 3 or 4 emitters for a repurposed hobby drone but use them all for something like a cruse missile
What youre describing is how I perceive AEGIS equipped ships will function when engaging targets.
They are always depicted as individually targeting objects. But I suspect that they will converge multiple beams on on target to reduce time-to-kill.
This has implications for countering swarms where time spent on any one target is a precious commodity.
Stop lying
The Empire chose Hawaii as the location of their most recent demonstration.
Great sponsor! I might put some missiles on my motorcycle, just incase I'm involved in a road rage incident, or if the road is blocked.
You’re killing it with videos lately, well done sir! 👏🏼
What if a missile with an integrated smoke screen to block out direct energy weapons?
Or
Reflective material coating?
"Sponsored by Raytheon" !?!
Bro, are you serious? This is You Tube. How did they even approach you to ask if you would do this video?
I'm asking for some friends on Maui.
I think one of my favorite uses is the air defense ability of lasers taking out drones, incoming rockets, missiles, and aircraft. Especially if they are more effective than current reactive armor, lighter faster tanks able to counter ATGMs. If they are not more effective, they still will be an excellent added layer of defense on top of the reactive armor. Depending on the mission, you could have a lighter faster tank easier to transport or go over bridges and such and still have a defense against ATGMs or if you need a full assault you add the reactive armor sacrificing speed. Lasers per shot are a cheap way to keep our soldiers safe and make their equipment more deadly.
Edit: He mentioned one such technology, the Raytheon HEL. IF it works as advertised, that would give vehicles a huge advantage. Especially since ammunition for the HEL is as long as you have power and as I mentioned the cost per shot is change in the pocket. Tanks get a huge boost when it comes to the question of their relevancy if it had such a defense.
Ironically the T-14 Armata could be a predecessor of future robo-tanks that are small, light, and remotely controlled (and able to navigate themselves, only requiring humans to decide targets and set ground objectives).
Future missiles, drone and aircraft will just have a super reflective coating designed to reflect nearly the whole infrared spectrum and make lasers useless as a defensive tool. We already have the technology to surface coat metals with extremely thin ceramic coatings so it wouldn't take too much to alter the ceramics to a mirror finish. You'd then have an extremely heat resistant coating that could reflect most of the energy away from the metal and make the laser worthless at that point.
@@Talishar SURE? Laser cuts mirror finish stainless sheet for me daily. They are pulsed at high frequency and power, so they strike with such force that mirror will not stop them. 50kw laser cuts metal inches thick. NOTHING can stop 500KW power output at several miles, already in testing . If the speed of cutting holes is indicator, they should be able to destroy 5-10 drones PER SECOND.
Learn the tech then speculate.
@@panan7777 I know the tech better than you. I'm literally in the industry trying to develop and deploy these systems. Your system that you have is a specially calibrated laser specific to your material. Initiating cuts has to be done extremely carefully as some of that energy is reflected outward and is a danger to everything around it until the metal starts to melt. Your aperture is also only a millimeter away from the material, not miles away. It's going to be fired in atmosphere and not vacuum so it'll incur serious amounts of loss going across distances. This video shows these systems being deployed on test drones and it still takes 10-15 seconds of focus to destroy the drone that's not setup to counter direct energy weapons at all. A missile that's designed to counter it will take far longer and then, to make it even more difficult to take out with a laser, they just need to make the missile roll while in flight so the laser can't focus on a single spot anymore which the U.S. already has such a missile and has had it for decades to counter IR/RF jamming.
Many researchers are already pushing to put the focus on the much more sensitive seeker head on missiles or the electro optics of the drones as you don't have to physically burn those modules down in order to disable them.
@@Talishar Not to mention the power requirements need right? I've heard thats a large issue they still havent found a work around for. Would you say that is something they are any closer to resolving?
I am just a 54 year old retired farmer in California but I love your show 😊
Shout-out from Germany. Not average at all. Thanks a lot for the content.
I love your videos, and I love the way you integrate your commentary with fact. The only thing that bothered me about this particular one, although you did at the beginning, announced that you were Sponsored by Raytheon, is that the only laser system that you mentioned was theirs. Generally, I’ve seen, you would mention more than one provider when you talk about weapon systems. Please keep up the good work, just my thoughts.
That's b/c this is a corporate PR piece by Raytheon, paid for by them to have Cappy present it with his usual brand and production values. See my separate comment above for things Cappy could not afford (literally) to do in this video.
@@dakaodoyep. I commented much the same. He's become a corporate shill by taking a Raytheon sponsorship. Every word he says from now on should be suspect.
Both of our comments have mysteriously disappeared BTW. Except there's nothing mysterious about it.
Neither of your comments disappeared. I can read them both.
@@chairmanofthebored6860 Kids gotta eat, right? I'm sure there will be other, more generalized videos covering this subject.
The US Navy has already field tested a laser point-defense system, AN/SEQ-3 Laser Weapon System, on the USS Ponce and USS Portland. While it was run on low power (150 KW), it demonstrated its incredible effectiveness against drones, drone ships and aircraft. The system was designed to be scalable for use against a number of threats, from dazzling people, to shooting down planes. The system worked very well and newer, more powerful systems are being produced, while it is rumored that such systems are already produced. The threat of hypersonics, demonstrated as far overstated by their performance in the Ukraine War, is greatly diminished if one understands the practical applications of the laser systems the US has developed. It is something of a humorous happenstance when one considers the time, effort and PR the Russians have used to develop very limited hypersonics when the answer to them (if they worked as advertised), had already been developed by the US that is much cheaper than the costs the Russians sank into their overrated missiles. It is demonstrative of what happens when a nation cannot compete with another in terms of resources, and sinks its hopes in a couple revolutionary weapon systems... and expects that no one will adapt to them in the lead-up to functionality.
The DEW developments are getting awesome from a frightening perspective. With lasers that can smoke objects from miles away and ones that can make sound from a distance are astonishing. Imagine burning the enemies AD then transmitting voices across the battlefield for psyop, or making the sound of a flashbang detonating at 100 times a second right next to the enemies head...we really get imaginative when we wanna kill somebody 🤔
Imagine this technology representing the apex threat to airborne targets. Aviation in general is directly threatened by this technology in a big way.
Not quite. Theres one more step after that: microwave weapons.
No more radar targeting for weapons. The radar IS the weapon.
We will never be able to have another revolution like france did.
@@iamscoutstfu Oh ezpz. wear chainmail or plate armor and metal golf cleats for a good path to ground.
The counter to a laser is one of the oldest tools known to man. A mirror. Seriously, a laser assembly of this size has dozens to even hundreds of them internally to help focus and direct the energy outwards. This means that you can just use a mirror to reflect most of the energy away and keep what's underneath relatively safe. It'd take a laser in the terawatts or even petawatts range at least to get the kill parity we have now with weapon systems not designed to counter lasers.
You are a great salesman ;-) And an interesting episode. We are in the middle of a lot of changes.
Compliments on your presentation style and thorough analytical skills.
Dropped 4 days before Lahaina..
NFW, Yeah lets show the people who's lives we destroyed who helpped fund this like the rest of America who will feel the effects from our traitorist government I need to get out of here this country has flipped to beyond crazy.
THIS IS EXPLAINS WHAT HAPPENED IN LAHAINA, MAUI
Same technology that started the Maui fire
I’ve been calling it for a decade, man. About effin’ time.
It worked great in Hawaii.
Real estate developers are pleased too😢
Satellite DEW being tested on Maui
The nightmare scenario is small cheap drones that drop those little mortars, where the drones use AI to navigate *and* choose targets (does it have a Z on it?) without “phoning home” so they can’t be jammed. For the price of these laser systems you could build 100s and saturate. Probably a good time to invest in a counter drone drone that hunts other drones autonomously. Like a 10 gauge with wings, camera and computer type cheap system. Oh lord the future is going to suck. I don’t think it would even be that hard.
I think more cheap and passive systems will arise out of this. All of the more expensive active countermeasures will still be there ,but the price and maintenance will reduce their effectiveness. I.e. (It's too expensive so, we will buy fewer of them) witch in turn makes them MORE expensive. But I'm interested in seeing how this developes.
AI driven SPAAG with proximity charges will help
FYI Lasers take power, a lot of power. That means heat and weight, nontrivial issues unless your mounted on a truck or ship
Even better when the drones can drop artillery rounds
Oh, Raytheon partnership. You are climbing the UA-cam ladder, Chris. :D
Good timing just before the maui and greece random wildfires
Rip maui
Don't be fooled DEW's have been around for over 30 years. They were used in Iraq in the first Gulf war
Exactly they were used,there's EVIDENCE not theory but EVIDENCE that they took down the twin towers
Start fires
Facts
Nah, they will just change the nature of armor.
Instead of (or in addition to) materials to protect against kinetic weapons, there will be a reflective or refractive surface, or coating that will render the lasers ineffective.
And Power requirements. Lasers that cause harm chuuuug power.
Just put disco balls on the outside of whatever you're trying to protect
And make them much easier to see on the ground. +s and -s to defend against one system, and make them more vulnerable to others.
How could you do this topic without a single mention of the navy. The USS Ponce was demonstrating laser weapons nearly about a decade ago.
I really appreciate your work- thanks so much.
military grade 50kw laser vs a high quality heat resistant mirror. (who will win?)
Sandboxx did a pretty good segment about lasers in warfare. He brought up a good point about why they're a bit of a ways from being effective countermeasures for missiles, especially hypersonic missiles. It takes a lot of power and exposure to the laser and for something traveling at hypersonic speeds, that presents a challenge, and even if you could get the laser on target, if it spins, it gets that much harder to bring it down.
First California, then 🌺
However I am happy you have been accepted into the high stakes community. I myself have stock in Lockheed. Martin. And want to by more. Eisenhower was wrong , we need All our People to defend us . Thanks cappy
This channel is amazing....down to the ads now. Muuhhrrica strong, everything else = hey yo, it's WORSE than you think brahh
As lasers can ge defeated by a certain shade of Blue. Or a mirrored surface.
For the book readers amongst yer, Dale Brown (auther of 'Flight of the Old Dog') wrote a few fiction novels looking with a fairly expert eye at credible low orbit space weapons.
I think the first in that series is *Starfire*
He predicts parts of what Chris Cappy's talking about here
Silver tower?
It's one thing to have a layered laser defense which is static and another to have one that is capable of being fluid in a dynamic BF enviro. If we value effective combined arms tactics it is absolutely imperative the same apply to the above systems leaving no gaps over the areas of engagement. It cannot be stressed enough the need for all the elements on the BF to have tight interoperability given the potential of asymmetric activity to upset achieving objectives.
What are you even saying
@@stephentrash8579 nothing you need to worry about go back to bed
Fluid systems will all be naval. But I do like the thought. The issue is cost per shot and recharge times. About all I feel I can say sadly.
@WintersFinalstand interoperability is the key in all militarily domains. Ignore all other diversions.
Just ask Lahaina how impactful these DEWs are
Raytheon built a 20million dollar lazer system to shoot down 2k dollar drones. "Winning!"
This is a very interesting topic and I enjoy your commentary but the sponsorship from Raytheon really muddied the waters in my opinion. I appreciate the transparency at least but it's hard to believe your analysis is objective with war profiters pay for your content. Raytheon isn't trying to sell these weapons to us, so we have to wonder what their motivation is in sponsoring this content. I'm not trying to be accusatory and I do understand that you need sponsors to continue your operation but I think you should consider how certain sponsors might hurt your credibility going forward.
They simply can afford it and if you're a fan of cappie why cant they?? American UA-camrs need support too because you bet americas enemies are doing much worse with theirs
US government as it stand are still using ambiguous and generalize language in their budget proposal still....PS...US Navy could use a military jet that can fly better than Mach 2....and can carry a duel laser/rail gun weapon system.
In your layered defense graphic - you're missing the Cost per Kill. And maybe the Gross Vehicle & Payload Weight. Those two factors are the interesting ones to determine position and coverage within the layered defense.
When we ask if it’s been used on Maui “energy weapons don’t exist”
wow so much info on here ! thankss for this awesome vid
Cappy, big fan of the channel and this is interesting content as always, but please, no more Raytheon commercials. I come looking for relatively unbiased content, which you’ve always given in the past.
Please remember: If there are "Directed Energy Weapons" that fire from land to space, then there can also be those that fire from space to land.
Yes, MTG invented them.
Hammer of dawn for everyone
just a correction. carbon fiber is incredibly heat tolerant. they use them for racing brakes in formula 1, indy and nascar. The issue isnt the carbon fiber its the carbon matrix and the epoxy used to bond the layers.
Wrong
@@georgehilario3544 ... ok.
There quite a few different ways to build carbon fiber that is heat resistant… and a few that aren’t, I’m sure most of the comments you will receive are from the people whose experience is in the kinds that aren’t
@@Matt-yg8ub if at all.
Partner with Raytheon or not, energy is THE solve-so-many-problems tech. Lasers are the defense application of that energy.
Excellent video. Well done.
Maui = DEW
Who knew G.I. Joe was prophetic.
They just hit Maui
The future of war is terrifying, yet war always has been terrifying
Gotta be a pretty cool feeling to say "my partner Raytheon". Hell of a partner/sponsor.
They can burn cities like paradise santa rosa maui and canada as well with them. Amazing only recent fires can melt steel brick concrete and Porcelain. Not a brick left yet the trees are left untouched.
Actually the trees are burned from the inside out
Maui
Hawaii fires?? Rebuild with smart cities.
I seriously don't get conspiracy theroist. If the government wanted to rebuild the city of Maui into a smart city then why use a expensive wepon (assuming it exist) do it and risking giving away there secrets. Can't do it do normally.
And again currently laser aren't that powerful to do such damage and if you believe the government somehow have somehave some futuristic tech do so then why bother working in the shadows and rule with a iron fist.