Air Force Turns 747 Into Holster for Giant Laser (washingtonpost.com)
Steve Schear
schear at lvcm.com
Sun Jul 22 22:34:06 PDT 2001
At 09:14 AM 7/22/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Point this baby at the ground...
>
>http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27248-2001Jul20.html
I wonder what the destructive mechanism is for this system? Heat by
radiant absorption seems an obvious but impractical method. If it is, then
as the article mentions there may be some inexpensive and practical
countermeasures to such a system, such as making the exterior of the
missile body into a multi-faceted mirror able to reflect both IR and radar
energy (although doing the same for the nose cone might prove more
difficult due to aerodynamics).
steve
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