Yes. The Gates Foundation has created an open source Laser Anti-Mosquito System you can build yourself. Video camera, blue laser from an old DVD player, some downloaded software, all under $80.
Yeah, just look up how to make your own. I wouldn't use it within a 25ft radius of my home though. You'll want to set bait outside your area and dedicate a kill zone. It you use servos make sure to set end points to ensure safety measures. And again, if you do or anyone truly decides to build one, don't place it right outside of your home. Accidents happen and you wouldn't want to accidentally forget and be abruptly remembered by going blind or getting yourself burnt.
Well the drone was just hoovering really low, which is a unlikely scenario during an attack. I want to see how capable it's tracking and locking on to a moving target at distance.
it works with AI bozos you train ai againt the wanted target and use PI Control software combine them with Yolov8 and then you just need to build techingredients robot and boom you got ur own...
Rubbish - those drones are car sized and moving fast. This tech would be useless. And anyway you’d be daft to shoot down a big drone over a built up area? Way to kill civilians with falling wreckage
@AnitaJobby-bj69 Since when has the FBI cared about civilians' lives? lol. And if they're coming from over the water, then take them down there! And what if they are or become a threat?
Just slapping on a mirror won't stop a high powered laser beam as mirrors do not reflect 100% of energy and the beam is focused on a small area. I wouldn't rule out drones with reflective materials being used, though I imagine lasers are going to win that arms race.
@joskowal3711 There have been experiments done with lasers fired at mirrors. The mirror coating works for a fraction of a second, then gets burned through.
this does not change the fact that in Australia there are 48 million kangaroos and in Uruguay there are 3,457,380 inhabitants. So if the kangaroos decide to invade Uruguay,each Uruguayan will have to fight 14 kangaroos
When this becomes more scalable, it'll make air defence ridiculously lethal, so long as sufficient early warning detection and then targeting systems are in place because the stand off range for lasers would be far greater than any missile. It would mean that entire squadrons of aircraft could be blasted out of the sky well out of range of them being able to drop a long range missile for example. All of this new tech will nullify cruise missiles, even ICBM's if the early warning systems are good enough - meaning all of Britains adversaries who have hypersonic missiles have come to nothing, when Britain is using technology that is utilising lightspeed. The potential this technology has can radicially alter the power status on the earth. Crazy times we live in!
You are forgetting basic physics. The usable range of a missile from an aircraft is around 100 miles. The range of a laser with a power supply the size of a small building may top a couple of miles. Diffraction and heating of the air spreads the beam right out. That is why lasers as weapons have not been used on the battlefield apart from range finding. These anti drone lasers may work 50 yards or so. Good at near ground level. No good if the drone is high and dropping bombs on you.
@mbak7801 thanks for the insight. I _guess_ the proficiency will be linked to early warning and thus, tracking systems also, in order to make these laser systems much more viable then. Provided they fix the energy supply problem (amongst others) that you've alluded to.
Ehh you can still crash a drone into something if you loose visuals. its quite common to loose the image close to the ground or with terrain blocking RF signals on the FPV style drones that this will need to take out. The battery is the best target as the drone is essentially dead if it looses power instead of just blind.
@@peterschmidt1453 They are testing laser systems to shoot down missiles. Look up the DragonFire LDEW system, they've been able to melt straight through motar rounds with it. Iron beam was able to take down rockets as well.
Took me 30 seconds to figure out hot glue and whatever plates or ceramic tiles you can find in the houses you encounter near a battlefield. Im sure blades can even be made out of porcelain. This laser is paper army level.
They need to minaturize it further and put it on an exo-skeleton suit and also make the smart glasses that predator has so it can automatically target drones.
Doesn't matter how much dramatic music you play or animations you show, the only actual real life example you gave was a tiny little drone that was not moving.
Version 0.1-to-1.0 maturities are often boring to outsiders but hats of to The Sun for catching something in development. Some people like this kind of thing.
@@NoGoodHandlesComingToMind South Korea already has a working version in production. UK version won't go into production until 2027 (and these dates are never met)
@@TC-oj2vd In 1903, the New York Times predicted that humans would not fly for between 1 and 10 million years. However, the Wright brothers successfully flew their airplane nine weeks later, disproving the prediction.
If you actually ever saw how much was developed and never entered service you would be amazed and disgusted at the same time.. I did 34 years and saw plenty of kit that was in the media and during exercises touted as the next thing only to never see it again...
Thank goodness all drones stay nice and still... Well except the 200mph fpv modified munition ones! And at 200mph tracking and maintaining localised heat due to cooling will be difficult. Silvered drones will also be a cheap way to mitigate somewhatt...😅
Laser rifles and side arms will also be available in the future. They will take some time to arrive, but they are within our field of grasp and will eventually make an appearance, one day, our modern firearms will become obsolete, only to be seen by collectors of rare antiquities and in museums.
No they won't , the power supplies required to produce a hot enough beam to be useful will make the system too heavy with current battery systems . The laser is not the problem it's powering it . They never show the huge power supply that the laser head is connected to .
@@RichardCheese-o2m It would need to be a large truck with a powerful generator on board . Israel made some ground breaking discoveries in this area . It combined the beams of three smaller lasers to make one powerful beam and as a result the three smaller power supplies were much lighter and more manageable than one huge power supply .
@@RichardCheese-o2m Emp has short range and no country has ever made a working one for anti drone defense. Theres testing with microwave beams to disable drones though but drones can make countermeasures to it
That is why you use programs and ai to aim at it. You really think it will be manual? Iron fist used on tanks to protect from missiles has extreme reaction speed thanks to program.
I would rather see it be used on a cruise missile, or fast mover rather than a small drone that’s sitting still. I understand that they don’t want to reveal all of its capabilities, but I think a demonstration on something that is more likely to be used in warfare would be better.
There are other systems for that. This is designed for anti drone. It's like saying it would prefer is patriot air defense could knock out fpv drones... It's not designed for that.
Generating the required power is easy, if you want to have a standalone power supply. If weight is critical there are gas turbine generators that are light and powerful. For trucks there are hybrid motor generators which can kick out a lot of power from the truck engine. A laser beam isn't hot any more than an electrical wire is hot. The beam is just the path where the light is travelling. If you intercept the beam then the thing you intercept it with will become hot, but the beam is not. Technical education in the press is next to non-existent.
The US military could do with one or two of these. They've spent many years and millions of dollars on an anti-drone system. Yet still they keep coming. I don't know whether drones are still flying over USAF bases in the UK because it's no longer reported on. Perhaps The Sun could give us an update.
I would much rather have this headline,........... "Ukraine acquires new weapon with 100% accuracy against Russian drones and missiles!! Previously unknown weapon." This constant blabbering about the West's military inventions serves no good purpose to be telling Ruzzia what we are doing.
Modern drones can flight at any axis. They can detect these attacks and simply rotate a highly reflective barrier directly at the laser, thus avoiding any damage.
Important to have the right weapon for the right circumstances. For example, the latter weapon will be rendered useless on rapidly moving drones, and/ or in foggy/rainy weather.
Why not? The laser will cut through the cloud or fog by evaporating the water. Tesla did it in 1910 & it was witnessed by a journalist who wrote up the story.
It's cool and all but lets see it in action against 90+ mph FPV drones... After all, we cant just ask our enemies to stand still for a moment whilst we shoot their drone down lol.
It's really cool that it can do this to the hull of the drone. What a lot of people forget is that a laser this powerful will fry the camera used to fly this thing in less than a second of exposure.
I am kind of disappointed: We have industrial lasers which cut through thick steel sheets like through butter. And this here needs several seconds perfect aiming. I was expecting some "one shot" laser for distances at least 3 or 4 miles away. A pulsed laser with a MW/s
"We always thought these would be on large warships because of how much power it takes. Yet, It only costs $10 per shot" okay, have you ever used $10 worth of electricity in 5 seconds? Do you have any idea how much wattage that is? You think we are stupid.
@MardukTheSunGodInsideMe QUOTE “Yet, It only costs $10 per shot okay, have you ever used $10 worth of electricity in 5 seconds?” Please check my calculations :- 1kWh of electricity costs me £0.50 so 20 kWh for £10 5 seconds is 5/(60 * 60) hours, = 0.001389 hrs So the power required to deliver £10 of electricity (20kWh) for 5 seconds = 20/0.001389 kW = 14398.848092 kW say 14000 kW A British Rail Class 27 diesel-electric locomotive develops (At the rail) 933 hp (696 kW), say 700 kW so the laser is as powerful as 14000/700 = 20 locomotives. I’m confident that this laser gun will not be carried by the infantry. The answer to the question is “No” although judging by the way Brirish Gas put their prices up, the answer will probably be “Yes” in a couple of years.
Without doubt beyond cool. IT may not need ammo but it does need an immense amount of stored and fast flowing energy. That means a hell of alot of oil, generators and various power supplies. Batteries would never work beyond a zillion of them for one shot. Cool but Id love to see them comment on the power needs and how they ill that.
To be accurate, light itself carries zero heat. The heat occurs indirecly as physical matter absorbs photons from the light beam and converts this into molecular vibration (heat) The sun transmits zero heat through space. Heating ocurs when the electromagnetc energy from the sun reacts with matter (has to be matter that absorbs light)
LOL! You have no clue how powerful these things are. 40 years ago Laser Fire Rapier could direct the laser and track with the required accuracy, but it was only a guidance laser. Just because you don't know how it is done doesn't mean it is difficult for people who do. The one announced in the US is 20kW. Or at least they are admitting 20kW. Blue Halo LOCUST. I know there are others.
@YeeterMcyeeterson Closed loop control systems have been pointing things at maneuvering targets for more than 80 years. In the late 80s a laser could be pointed accurately enough to track a target drone the size of a car at well over 20 miles. Things have come a long way since then.
Try the Israeli Iron Beam which is a 100kW-class High-Energy Laser Weapon System by Rafael Advanced Defense System unveiled in 2022 as part of their integrated air defense system,. The US has a $1.4bn order with them. .
that looks way too low power to kill even tiny stationary plastic drones a little bit of tinfoil on a 200km/h FPV drone and this laser will simply fail
Now imagine dragon fire but larger and powered by Nuclear reactors. Yeah our enemies are gonna have a bad surprise. Imagine seeing your colleagues just bursting into flames out of nowhere. Scary.
The Isrealis have had this for at least 5 years, and one guy in our club was the test pilot. They had a warehouse full of P3 and he flew 10 to 20 of them a day.
@@davetekannon no it doesn’t- barely impacts it as this weapon is slow, expensive and has a very low operational range and is very easy to counter measure. Also only works in clear weather
There is no heat to detect. The laser beam is simply light and only causes a temperature rise when it hits something/material that absorbs light at that wavelength. In other words, the drone could only detect a temperature rise if it is hit itself.
We have been using Laser Warning Receivers(LWR) for many decades. They are used to que the Directional Infrared Counter Measures (DIRCM) systems. The earlier systems used flashlights (arclights) and the latter smaller systems use Lasers. They are designed to counter IR homing air-to-air missiles, such as Sidewinders and shoulder launched MANPADS missiles, such as the SA-7 Grail.
@@alanparkinson549 Yes, the drone will be hit for long enough to heat up. But the drone will detect that temperature rise and start dodging before it gets hot enough to be damaged. So the laser will get thrown off and no more heating.
This obviously a T'eed up simple softball target for this laser, and there was a safe wall of dirt in case the laser missed. Most real-world situations will have the drone much farther away. Also, the drone will be moving (sometimes erratically) which likely will cause the laser to miss for a good duration it was on. Anybody and anything behind will receive that laser energy. With that amount of laser power, it will permanently blind someone in a microsecond!
Now they just need a frickin' shark Mk. I. But no they are not "virtually limitless in terms of ammunition supply" because they are powered by generators. so their "ammunition supply" is their fuel capacity.
10 pounds a pop is such a fallacy. As if a laserwapen would ever become artillery for the poor ... Even for a conventional battleship firing 10K shells, the cost of the ammo is pretty irrelevant. Hazzard a guess what a fully crewed battle ship costs per day, in a battle zone.
Good news well explained from a very lucid, intelligent journalist. Not what I expected from The Sun at all. I am not sure what a 100 hit rate is though, sounds good if it hit 100 out of 100, but not good out of 1000.
It can shoot down a drone hovering right in front of it? Wow what an amazing demonstration. I bet you'll never see this overpriced thing shoot down an fpv quad. MOD should have just got Styropyro to build one with stuff from ebay for peanuts!
So all anyone needs to do is cover the drone in mirror tape to reflect the high energy beam. Pretty simple, that's how they get lasers to bend around corners. See, I already created countermeasures.
can i get a miniature version against mosquitos please
Yes. The Gates Foundation has created an open source Laser Anti-Mosquito System you can build yourself. Video camera, blue laser from an old DVD player, some downloaded software, all under $80.
Don't aim speed cameras at military vehicles
@@jameshewitt5774
I thought that was the Rockwell encabulator turbo.
@@jameshewitt5774 I know this is not true because Gates would NEVER do anything open source.
Yeah, just look up how to make your own. I wouldn't use it within a 25ft radius of my home though. You'll want to set bait outside your area and dedicate a kill zone. It you use servos make sure to set end points to ensure safety measures. And again, if you do or anyone truly decides to build one, don't place it right outside of your home. Accidents happen and you wouldn't want to accidentally forget and be abruptly remembered by going blind or getting yourself burnt.
Well the drone was just hoovering really low, which is a unlikely scenario during an attack. I want to see how capable it's tracking and locking on to a moving target at distance.
Step 1 is get it working against static targets, next steps will be moving, dodging, flying etc
Classified dude they show what is allowed 😂
its british it will be on point
go waych @TechIngredients
it works with AI bozos you train ai againt the wanted target and use PI Control software combine them with Yolov8 and then you just need to build techingredients robot and boom you got ur own...
Can New Jersey borrow this as FBI can't handle the situation there with the drones.
Rubbish - those drones are car sized and moving fast. This tech would be useless.
And anyway you’d be daft to shoot down a big drone over a built up area? Way to kill civilians with falling wreckage
What's happening New Jersey like 3 alien races sent their drones to investigate the planet 😂
@AnitaJobby-bj69 Since when has the FBI cared about civilians' lives? lol. And if they're coming from over the water, then take them down there! And what if they are or become a threat?
I'm more scared of thinks I can't see. Those drone were meant to be seen. Zero reason why it had so many flashing lights.
USA has had these and has been accused of using them on it's own Towns
What happens if I stick a mirror on the bottom of my drone?
Just slapping on a mirror won't stop a high powered laser beam as mirrors do not reflect 100% of energy and the beam is focused on a small area. I wouldn't rule out drones with reflective materials being used, though I imagine lasers are going to win that arms race.
shhh
dont forget all the sides as well....flying disco ball!
@joskowal3711 There have been experiments done with lasers fired at mirrors. The mirror coating works for a fraction of a second, then gets burned through.
@@stevebarlow3154 Excellent thanks. Sounds like a problem for Ivan's material science department.
But will it intercept incoming people's boats?
Now which news broadcast will have the guts to show this ?
@@jappleyard2069 I can because I don't live in the UK. Will not face consequences-schtarmerquences
@@jappleyard2069 Christmas trees may have shiny balls but they don't, ho ho ho
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this does not change the fact that in Australia there are 48 million kangaroos and in Uruguay there are 3,457,380 inhabitants. So if the kangaroos decide to invade Uruguay,each Uruguayan will have to fight 14 kangaroos
how I got to my venerable old age without that information I will never know ;
Even worse if the kangeroos catch them on-the-hop
oh my giddy aunt ( clutching at pearls ) just hope the kangaroos don`t invade scotland ....
😅
LMFAO !!!
That's a lot of dead birds.
You mean a lot of KFC
Britain leading the world with military tech again. Well done guys.
Awaiting Electronic Parts From China..
Wait untill it’s deployed, it won’t work or will be countered within few weeks max.
@JJ03330 It's Operators will come down with Severe Cases of "Runny Bottom/Headaches".
@richardsanders4624 Possible to 😅
Your deluded, america is miles ahead.
Will blue cars survive a good beaming?
When this becomes more scalable, it'll make air defence ridiculously lethal, so long as sufficient early warning detection and then targeting systems are in place because the stand off range for lasers would be far greater than any missile.
It would mean that entire squadrons of aircraft could be blasted out of the sky well out of range of them being able to drop a long range missile for example. All of this new tech will nullify cruise missiles, even ICBM's if the early warning systems are good enough - meaning all of Britains adversaries who have hypersonic missiles have come to nothing, when Britain is using technology that is utilising lightspeed.
The potential this technology has can radicially alter the power status on the earth. Crazy times we live in!
You are forgetting basic physics. The usable range of a missile from an aircraft is around 100 miles. The range of a laser with a power supply the size of a small building may top a couple of miles. Diffraction and heating of the air spreads the beam right out. That is why lasers as weapons have not been used on the battlefield apart from range finding. These anti drone lasers may work 50 yards or so. Good at near ground level. No good if the drone is high and dropping bombs on you.
@mbak7801 thanks for the insight. I _guess_ the proficiency will be linked to early warning and thus, tracking systems also, in order to make these laser systems much more viable then. Provided they fix the energy supply problem (amongst others) that you've alluded to.
It just has to damage the drone camera. With such a powerful laser it happens almost instantly.
@@penio78 wrong wavelength of light
Ehh you can still crash a drone into something if you loose visuals. its quite common to loose the image close to the ground or with terrain blocking RF signals on the FPV style drones that this will need to take out. The battery is the best target as the drone is essentially dead if it looses power instead of just blind.
Mounting several cameras sounds cheap
Next come the armored drones.
Agreed, a laser will work on cheap plastic but aluminium or titanium wont be melting so easy. It will certainly drive up the cost of drones.
And the sharks with lasers
@@peterschmidt1453 They are testing laser systems to shoot down missiles. Look up the DragonFire LDEW system, they've been able to melt straight through motar rounds with it. Iron beam was able to take down rockets as well.
Took me 30 seconds to figure out hot glue and whatever plates or ceramic tiles you can find in the houses you encounter near a battlefield. Im sure blades can even be made out of porcelain. This laser is paper army level.
They will just stick mirrors on drones, cost 5 bucks to counter 100 million bucks of tech 😂
this is the future.
God Save the Kink
Is someone holding a tv up in the background in the office? 😂😂
30 year old tech that's been sitting on a shelf, collecting dust, and just waiting for a war.
Everybody gonna be blind this ww3 with the reflected laser beam 😅
Great progress, but that's one drone at a time.
Most likely the opponents will send a drone swarm, many at the same time.
They need to minaturize it further and put it on an exo-skeleton suit and also make the smart glasses that predator has so it can automatically target drones.
a wee bit like antman and the wasp suit ...ha ha ha
All thats missing is full AI control and we are in terminator land.
Doesn't matter how much dramatic music you play or animations you show, the only actual real life example you gave was a tiny little drone that was not moving.
Version 0.1-to-1.0 maturities are often boring to outsiders but hats of to The Sun for catching something in development. Some people like this kind of thing.
@@NoGoodHandlesComingToMind South Korea already has a working version in production. UK version won't go into production until 2027 (and these dates are never met)
@@TC-oj2vd In 1903, the New York Times predicted that humans would not fly for between 1 and 10 million years. However, the Wright brothers successfully flew their airplane nine weeks later, disproving the prediction.
@@owaind-g678 didn't get with the times and the brothers were Wright all along?
UK ahead of times always.
"fast moving objects" shows a stationary drone slowly being disabled...
that was my first thought. also doubt it "never runs out of amo" claim. it will fry itself if it encounters a drone swarm
Wouldn't be a very good video if you couldn't see anything
I think it's maybe talking about the blades that rotate very fast to identify and lock on.
All the doubters will get a big surprise when the thing enters service.
Like the Dragonfire?
If you actually ever saw how much was developed and never entered service you would be amazed and disgusted at the same time.. I did 34 years and saw plenty of kit that was in the media and during exercises touted as the next thing only to never see it again...
Flex propaganda
Thank goodness all drones stay nice and still...
Well except the 200mph fpv modified munition ones!
And at 200mph tracking and maintaining localised heat due to cooling will be difficult. Silvered drones will also be a cheap way to mitigate somewhatt...😅
Laser rifles and side arms will also be available in the future. They will take some time to arrive, but they are within our field of grasp and will eventually make an appearance, one day, our modern firearms will become obsolete, only to be seen by collectors of rare antiquities and in museums.
Because burning weapons won't be targeted by human rights groups?
No they won't , the power supplies required to produce a hot enough beam to be useful will make the system too heavy with current battery systems . The laser is not the problem it's powering it . They never show the huge power supply that the laser head is connected to .
They can always induce currents from a vehicle, I suppose.
Burning weapons won't be well recieved by HR groups...
@@RichardCheese-o2m It would need to be a large truck with a powerful generator on board . Israel made some ground breaking discoveries in this area . It combined the beams of three smaller lasers to make one powerful beam and as a result the three smaller power supplies were much lighter and more manageable than one huge power supply .
I think what needs to be strengthened is electronic warfare weapons. But it has to be really strong.
Won’t work against fiber optic drones or ai controlled drones
@@angelnunez6476 EMP works against electronics... if they can jam in a limited space.
@@RichardCheese-o2m Emp has short range and no country has ever made a working one for anti drone defense. Theres testing with microwave beams to disable drones though but drones can make countermeasures to it
A normal drone will move like crazy and they didn't show that. Lol
Yeah that isnt gonna work unless the drone is basically staying still
That is why you use programs and ai to aim at it. You really think it will be manual? Iron fist used on tanks to protect from missiles has extreme reaction speed thanks to program.
@rokos.1239 can the targeting system intercept incoming missiles with just 1 km range? I don't know their speed.
not a commercial drone carrying a granade or a mortar shell
do they fly faster than the speed of light?
Wow! It's even better than a kid with a magnifying glass!
You put a reflective coating on drone or constructed in plastic with appropriate wavelength to defeat it?? Hmm 🤔
First drones, then robots, and no lasers. We’re moving towards Star Wars. The future is now.
Still think a silly string shell better. When drones approach fire shell and string falls like chaff to get tangled in the rotors.
I would rather see it be used on a cruise missile, or fast mover rather than a small drone that’s sitting still. I understand that they don’t want to reveal all of its capabilities, but I think a demonstration on something that is more likely to be used in warfare would be better.
There are other systems for that. This is designed for anti drone.
It's like saying it would prefer is patriot air defense could knock out fpv drones... It's not designed for that.
Generating the required power is easy, if you want to have a standalone power supply. If weight is critical there are gas turbine generators that are light and powerful. For trucks there are hybrid motor generators which can kick out a lot of power from the truck engine. A laser beam isn't hot any more than an electrical wire is hot. The beam is just the path where the light is travelling. If you intercept the beam then the thing you intercept it with will become hot, but the beam is not. Technical education in the press is next to non-existent.
History has taught us that something is being developed that can overcome this laser cannon
Proton Cannon in a billionaire suit
We need to get some of those to stop the "mysterious drones." 😂
Bro literally we’re going to starting an intergalactic war.
New armed drone, follows laser light to source while zig-zagging.
The British really are one step ahead in military tech.
They didn’t have the biggest empire in history for nothing
If the drones don't move around too much and fly really slowly, this could prove very effective.
The US military could do with one or two of these. They've spent many years and millions of dollars on an anti-drone system. Yet still they keep coming. I don't know whether drones are still flying over USAF bases in the UK because it's no longer reported on. Perhaps The Sun could give us an update.
I would much rather have this headline,...........
"Ukraine acquires new weapon with 100% accuracy against Russian drones and missiles!! Previously unknown weapon."
This constant blabbering about the West's military inventions serves no good purpose to be telling Ruzzia what we are doing.
Modern drones can flight at any axis. They can detect these attacks and simply rotate a highly reflective barrier directly at the laser, thus avoiding any damage.
Important to have the right weapon for the right circumstances. For example, the latter weapon will be rendered useless on rapidly moving drones, and/ or in foggy/rainy weather.
Why not? The laser will cut through the cloud or fog by evaporating the water. Tesla did it in 1910 & it was witnessed by a journalist who wrote up the story.
What a shame they are never actually deployed when drones are invading. Just like the police. Always show up after a crime is committed.
It's cool and all but lets see it in action against 90+ mph FPV drones... After all, we cant just ask our enemies to stand still for a moment whilst we shoot their drone down lol.
It's really cool that it can do this to the hull of the drone. What a lot of people forget is that a laser this powerful will fry the camera used to fly this thing in less than a second of exposure.
Announcing the new "disco-ball drone", complete with mirrors to reflect high powered infra-red laser beams. I claim the patent!
I am kind of disappointed: We have industrial lasers which cut through thick steel sheets like through butter. And this here needs several seconds perfect aiming. I was expecting some "one shot" laser for distances at least 3 or 4 miles away. A pulsed laser with a MW/s
Lasers lose power rapidly over even small distances. Those cutters will be practically touching the steel it cuts
"We always thought these would be on large warships because of how much power it takes. Yet, It only costs $10 per shot" okay, have you ever used $10 worth of electricity in 5 seconds? Do you have any idea how much wattage that is? You think we are stupid.
@MardukTheSunGodInsideMe QUOTE “Yet, It only costs $10 per shot okay, have you ever used $10 worth of electricity in 5 seconds?”
Please check my calculations :-
1kWh of electricity costs me £0.50 so 20 kWh for £10
5 seconds is 5/(60 * 60) hours, = 0.001389 hrs
So the power required to deliver £10 of electricity (20kWh) for 5 seconds = 20/0.001389 kW
= 14398.848092 kW say 14000 kW
A British Rail Class 27 diesel-electric locomotive develops (At the rail) 933 hp (696 kW), say 700 kW
so the laser is as powerful as 14000/700 = 20 locomotives.
I’m confident that this laser gun will not be carried by the infantry.
The answer to the question is “No” although judging by the way Brirish Gas put their prices up, the answer will probably be “Yes” in a couple of years.
Compared to the cost of a drone. That's practically a bargain bin deal
R&D in this field is critical for all future threats and warfare.
Legislation on flying drones also needs to keep up with
Without doubt beyond cool. IT may not need ammo but it does need an immense amount of stored and fast flowing energy. That means a hell of alot of oil, generators and various power supplies. Batteries would never work beyond a zillion of them for one shot. Cool but Id love to see them comment on the power needs and how they ill that.
To be accurate, light itself carries zero heat. The heat occurs indirecly as physical matter absorbs photons from the light beam and converts this into molecular vibration (heat) The sun transmits zero heat through space. Heating ocurs when the electromagnetc energy from the sun reacts with matter (has to be matter that absorbs light)
Laser - "Hold still for 5 minutes so I can burn you..."
Drone - "No Thanks"
If controlled by AI aiming system, won't matter if the drone moves. All it needs is to focus on a rotor for a couple seconds and drone goes down.
fly towards the light, don't be scared my little drone
LOL! You have no clue how powerful these things are. 40 years ago Laser Fire Rapier could direct the laser and track with the required accuracy, but it was only a guidance laser. Just because you don't know how it is done doesn't mean it is difficult for people who do. The one announced in the US is 20kW. Or at least they are admitting 20kW. Blue Halo LOCUST. I know there are others.
If it's real, you as a drone operator wouldn't even know you were being shot until you caught fire and crashed.
@YeeterMcyeeterson Closed loop control systems have been pointing things at maneuvering targets for more than 80 years. In the late 80s a laser could be pointed accurately enough to track a target drone the size of a car at well over 20 miles. Things have come a long way since then.
And climate-friendly won't heat up the planet
News Update: Drone equipped with mirror destroys Dragon Laser within seconds.
Is there anything Britain didn’t invent, like ever?
USA has had these 😂 in fact People have been called conspiracy theorists for claiming they've used them on small towns
Gunpowder.
Sarcasm, probably...
@@alunhuang-wright3030we definitely invented that, I'm the king!
Try the Israeli Iron Beam which is a 100kW-class High-Energy Laser Weapon System by Rafael Advanced Defense System unveiled in 2022 as part of their integrated air defense system,. The US has a $1.4bn order with them. .
I imagine drones with mirror defences sending the laser straight back to where it came from.
The black smoke seen billowing from both the ship and drone systems demonstrated here isn't encouraging...
that looks way too low power to kill even tiny stationary plastic drones
a little bit of tinfoil on a 200km/h FPV drone and this laser will simply fail
Biggest problem is maintaining beam on exact same spot for those few seconds. It has to track drone within cm accuracy.
I whisper to my DARPA Dog, "Todd"....
"...go get me that laser..."
Now imagine dragon fire but larger and powered by Nuclear reactors. Yeah our enemies are gonna have a bad surprise. Imagine seeing your colleagues just bursting into flames out of nowhere. Scary.
Use Mako Energy
Drone: "Ima hover low and in one spot so I can melt slowly, yeh."
try shooting fpv drone instead of idle drone
Silver drones. Simple and effective defense against lasers.
This has been around for awhile. They said it was too complicated and expensive to repair.
perfect for military industry
The Isrealis have had this for at least 5 years, and one guy in our club was the test pilot. They had a warehouse full of P3 and he flew 10 to 20 of them a day.
Where do things go from here? This turns the whole drone-warfare nightmare into meltdown status!
@@davetekannon no it doesn’t- barely impacts it as this weapon is slow, expensive and has a very low operational range and is very easy to counter measure. Also only works in clear weather
No drone stay still😂😂😂😂
working drones do
Virtually limitless... as long as the weather is clear, there are no obstructing plants or buildings and there's no smoke on the battlefield. 😂
Well if the laser is powerful enough it can punch through clouds no?
This is very deadly but not against drones (because or swarming.) Instead, this can disable opponent vehicles visions/sensors/etc.
Just program the drone to dash around rapidly when it detects heat to dodge the laser.
There is no heat to detect. The laser beam is simply light and only causes a temperature rise when it hits something/material that absorbs light at that wavelength. In other words, the drone could only detect a temperature rise if it is hit itself.
We have been using Laser Warning Receivers(LWR) for many decades. They are used to que the Directional Infrared Counter Measures (DIRCM) systems. The earlier systems used flashlights (arclights) and the latter smaller systems use Lasers. They are designed to counter IR homing air-to-air missiles, such as Sidewinders and shoulder launched MANPADS missiles, such as the SA-7 Grail.
@@alanparkinson549 Yes, the drone will be hit for long enough to heat up. But the drone will detect that temperature rise and start dodging before it gets hot enough to be damaged. So the laser will get thrown off and no more heating.
Phasers set to ‘stun’
Electromagnetic beams disrupting circuit boards is the best bet. If you can get the long range.
This obviously a T'eed up simple softball target for this laser, and there was a safe wall of dirt in case the laser missed. Most real-world situations will have the drone much farther away. Also, the drone will be moving (sometimes erratically) which likely will cause the laser to miss for a good duration it was on. Anybody and anything behind will receive that laser energy. With that amount of laser power, it will permanently blind someone in a microsecond!
and the big selling point is it can also fry eggs and boil a brew for the troops
The laser now becomes a target.
Well done to the person at the back holding up the screen for the entire video. 🙂
Unlucky falcon birds
Now they just need a frickin' shark Mk. I.
But no they are not "virtually limitless in terms of ammunition supply" because they are powered by generators. so their "ammunition supply" is their fuel capacity.
Secret weapon lol it's so secret the sun is showing it off 😂😂😂.
5 years ago "Omg, directed energy weapons don't exist you're a conspiracy theorist."
Today, "Omg I love Science (TM)!!!!"
It's all so tiresome.
Sounds good and only several layers of thermal protective skin on your missile would probably guarantee missiles target.
No Temu drones were harmed during this demonstration.
Enemy will just wait for a rain or fog, or create smoke screen with another disposable drones
If the drone is hovering... only... 😂😂😂
omg they missed a perfect opportunity to name a weapon system "LEWD".
Next thing you will have lasers mounted on helicopters or large drones flying around zapping troops using infra-red sights. Welcome to Skynet.
You have that in Ukraine now.
So, the choice: go low-observable and dont get targetted, or highly reflective and minimise the effectiveness of this type of defence.
The Dragonfire is far from new, The US have been testing it for us on their ships for the last 10 yrs.
Welcome to very shiny drones with mirrors or even right angle prisms.
But deadly drones aren't stationary. They move pretty quick.
Good to see Les Grossman back
10 pounds a pop is such a fallacy. As if a laserwapen would ever become artillery for the poor ...
Even for a conventional battleship firing 10K shells, the cost of the ammo is pretty irrelevant.
Hazzard a guess what a fully crewed battle ship costs per day, in a battle zone.
There are no Battleships in modern Navies, they became obsolete almost one hundred years ago.
Good news well explained from a very lucid, intelligent journalist. Not what I expected from The Sun at all. I am not sure what a 100 hit rate is though, sounds good if it hit 100 out of 100, but not good out of 1000.
It can shoot down a drone hovering right in front of it? Wow what an amazing demonstration. I bet you'll never see this overpriced thing shoot down an fpv quad. MOD should have just got Styropyro to build one with stuff from ebay for peanuts!
Laser Weapons 😮 Welcome to Star Wars 😂💀
Indian DRDO should make a miniature version of the Durga 2 DEW like this system, and use it in FRCV tank.
So all anyone needs to do is cover the drone in mirror tape to reflect the high energy beam. Pretty simple, that's how they get lasers to bend around corners.
See, I already created countermeasures.
Discretion is the better part of valour. Reason for that.
Hundreds of thousands spent on development over many years only to be stumped by a cheap peace of reflective tape
A set of 90’ reflectors added to every drone means this is literally
Going toj backfire 😮
it would just melt the mirror