chinese laser weapon development

AssassinsMace

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Lasers destroying things in real battlefield conditions are still a long way off. When you see video like the US airbourne test it looks spectactular but if you can see the laser hitting and destroying the target within visual range then it's extremely limited. If you're going to knock down something like ballistic missiles, that will have to happen hundreds of miles away not within visual range. It's all about the power source. Whatever laser technology exist today needs more power the longer the distance. A fighter or tank is simply too small to carry a power source that can do no more than maybe harm a human being at close range.
 
siegecrossbow

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Interesting new development:

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European Sources: CIA Spy Satellite Blinded by Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- European intelligence sources disclosed that Iran has succeeded in blinding a CIA spy satellite through an indigenous laser technology.




According to a European intelligence source, Iran shocked Western intelligence agencies in an unreported incident that took place sometime in the past two years, when it managed to "blind a CIA spy satellite by aiming a laser burst quite accurately".

The report surfaced in the Christian Science Monitor after Iran hacked the control system of the United States' most advanced drone RQ-170 Sentinel earlier this month.

Iran first announced on December 4 that its defense forces had downed the aircraft through a sophisticated cyber attack.

The drone is the first such loss by the US. US officials have described the loss of the aircraft in Iran as a setback and a fatal blow to the stealth drone program.

The RQ-170 has special coatings and a batwing shape designed to help it penetrate other nations' air defenses undetected. The unmanned surveillance plane was a stealth aircraft being used for secret missions by the CIA, US officials admitted last week.

The aircraft is among the highly sensitive surveillance platform in the CIA's fleet that was shaped and designed to evade enemy defenses.

Iran's cyber attack eventually forced the US to replace its fleet of drones in the region.

The US Air Force is sending a single copy of a brand-new stealth drone to Afghanistan after its more - or better to say most - advanced stealth aircraft, RQ-170, was downed by an Iranian cyber attack earlier this month to see if Tehran can down this drone as well.

A former senior Iranian official who asked not to be named said, "There are a lot of human resources in Iran.... Iran is not like Pakistan."

Also, Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps General Hossein Salami said this week, "Technologically, our distance from the Americans, the Zionists, and other advanced countries is not so far to make the downing of this plane seem like a dream for us … but it could be amazing for others."
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Could this be proof of Chinese or Russian tech transfer to Iran?
 
Blitzo

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I see no reason why Iran couldn't develop their own laser to blind satellites.
 
Hyperwarp

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Any guess as to what this will be used for :D?
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first of all.....what the heck is that thing?
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Looks a bit like a sextant
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Kurt

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a scary scary thing. it's a flying saucer with a death ray on top. the Chinese seem to have made a successful industrial espionage effort on Mars.
Seriously, if the guess is right that this has to do with optical waves, it can be the design for an observation or emission platform that can be rotated with a prism, mirror or lense on top that can be also rotated.
But I don't think it's a weapon design because it has a smiley and it will more likely end up in the Wal-Mart-toy-section.
 
siegecrossbow

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Hyperwarp said:
first of all.....what the heck is that thing?
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Looks a bit like a sextant
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It is an air defense targeting platform used on naval warships. The platform could be used for conventional or laser based air defense weapons. The image in question, as quote by the paper below, was taken from an illustration from a paper on a similar device build in Michigan.

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