We get it
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The article above was specifically talking about lasers

So you just pull numbers out of your ass to make an argument?

Not always, it was half based on the 30KW 'Silent Hunter' they bought from China. While it is a really cool idea, that one used close to 100kW just to produce the 30kW beam. It requires more than that to operate the chillers and pumps that must be ran to keep the whole system from overheating.

I would have to make the asumption that they upped the power significantly as Silent Hunter was only capable of 4,000 meter max range (the 'killzone' is only listed as 1500 meters), if they upped the power all of the requirements go up. If they managed to up the power too much, it's going to cause grid power dips that will thankfully bring down their other systems that depend on it.

That's why there are shells which explode at a certain distance. But yes the general issue here is range. Shotguns are close range and cheap. Lasers are close range and expensive.

But the ammunition is the real cost. Not only to produce but to package, about ship, store, and carry. A boat can only store so much shotgun ammo, but a boat with a fusion reactor has infinite laser ammo

Munition isn't actually that expensive. As long as the munition is cheaper than the drone, the math checks out.

Now let me tell you about the cost of this giant laser with a limited range...

No, they have an extremely corrupt and poorly supplied army because it's an oligarchical dictatorship.

No no I understand that building the platform is expensive. That's not in question. What's in question is whether an expensive platform with very low price per shot eventually makes up for the platform cost.

Likely it is intended to be used in concert with ballistics, not instead of. Laser have a very low peak rate of fire relative to ballistics, but have a very high duration of continuous field service relative to ballistics

This is literally what's happening with the US war in Iran right now, meanwhile Russian military industrial complex is state owned and it's outproducing all of NATO as openly admitted by mainstream western media.

Not to mention lasers move at the speed of light. That’s got to be a benefit, right? Is there no benefit realized from the boost there?

They are going to use drones as an excuse to deploy blinding lasers.

Obvious response to drone killing lasers is a convex mirror finish, then anyone looking at the drone when the defense system kicks in could be blinded.

Yes, and that’s literally where power comes in. The more powerful the laser, the further it stays coherent

Yes that's true but the power requirement (not to mention cooling) exponentially increases the further the object is because of the light spreading. The amount of burst power and light density needed for a long-range laser is bonkers and making it go further will requires exponential bonkers.

This is why they frequently fire them using pulses but even then getting them to destroy objects at a very long distance gets harder and harder the further the object is. If the drone flies near a laser then it works wonders. If the drone flies around the area laser then it's not much more effective than simple airshot munition.

I checked the article but didn't see a video in it so I'm not sure what the laser managed to do here.

Just because the reich can’t do something, doesn’t mean it’s not possible.

Maybe it is, but unless this interception was very long range they haven't found the magical bullet yet and it isn't much of an improvement over simple buckshot type munition or interception drones.

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ok thanks for confirming that you are pulling numbers out of your ass

Hmm... Well, if that is the way you respond to actual facts, I suppose have a great day my man.