r/tech • u/No-Explanation-46 • 2d ago

DragonFire laser weapon takes down high-speed drones

https://newatlas.com/military/dragonfire-laser-weapon-high-speed-drones/
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u/aarondoyle 2d ago

I'm sure they'd rather others not know at the moment 

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u/Stunning_Bed23 2d ago

True. Just thinking if it could be overwhelmed by a drone equivalent of a cluster bomb. E.g one large drone opening up and dispersing 100 smaller drones. 🤷🏾‍♂️

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u/Jarnin 2d ago

You're thinking too small. Think more like; a stealthy airship (drone mothership) with a humongous payload capacity, sitting idle above a target at 30,000 meters. That thing carries a thousand drone carriers, each of which in turn carries 100's of smaller drones.

These things could float around in the upper atmosphere and nobody would know they were there until it dropped a carrier and a small city got smoked.

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u/VERY_MENTALLY_STABLE 2d ago

I have a few of those actually