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Holy crap! They did it!

NoUseForAName

Monkey
Mar 26, 2008
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Article said that it was only successful when the missle was in the 'boost phase' ie launch phase. Only useful if you've got Aerial platforms station near when the missile is 'due' to be launched.
Hitting the much smaller target of the warhead on reentry would be impressive, but a much harder job. Something to do with targetting and firing speeds?
 

Westy

the teste
Nov 22, 2002
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Sleazattle
The problem with all this is that countermeasures to a laser are pretty simple. For a lot of industrial laser cutting applications surface conditions need to be near perfect.