It is towed by a DongFeng, which is a car sized truck. Don’t see how that’s too large?
chinese laser weapon development
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It is towed by a DongFeng, which is a car sized truck. Don’t see how that’s too large?
It looks about right. The actual laser relevant package on the back of the truck seems pretty self contained and also includes some other elements beyond the laser (something that resembles a radar or a jammer as well), and it's on a fairly well proliferated platform with good mobility and ability to support a crew.
The Raytheon system on Polaris is more mobile, and is designed for carriage by even a helicopter, but we don't know how many engagements and how long the surveillance duration it can do versus the Mengshi mounted one.
Putting it another way, you can give a 50 calibre HMG to a dune buggy as well as something like a Mengshi, but that doesn't make them oriented for the same mission and capabilities.
Anti-drone lasers have filtered down to law enforcement.
What is the practical purpose of this? Why would police forces need anti-drone lasers?
Runaway drones operating in restricted air space like airports.
Rogue drone is a bigger problem than you might think in today's urban life. And everyday there's a higher chance some criminal or terrorist would weaponize one.
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A far bigger problem is the use of drones to delivery drugs, phones and other contraband into prisons.
Now imagine that is an American Global Hawk UAV, or Apache attack helicopter, or A-10 Warthog or even an F-35 Lightning. China's LW30 kilowatt laser can burn through 2mm of sheet steel imagine what it will do to aircraft aluminum or titanium or composite not to mention the canopy and the pilot's eyes if he was unlucky enough..... In the sky you can run but you can't hide from a laser it's just math and physics. The American Pentagon evidently sees such advanced Chinese weapons technology as a very real threat to their global military domination ambitions hence the reversal of diplomatic, diplomatic and academic policies in recent years. The US is really afraid of the Chinese.