Consider this:
Consider this:
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You would have to cut the fiber or hope the pulsed laser melts it.
90% of the physics aside, this theory is like saying that crossing flashlight beams would cause interference. This is also ignoring the density difference between the fiber and the air.
All things considered, I think we are looking at the new Russian wunderwaffe. Coming to a T-14 near you.
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i worked with fibers before and its 100% possible to inject enough light into a fiber to cause errors at the Rx without melting the fiber, flash lights are not coherent light and are not focused enough for that (also not pulsed)
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Into raw unshielded fibers tho probably, right?
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I thought that was only really an issue if the fiber was damaged in any way. (It would create a point where the external light could refract into the core) Then again, there isn't going to be a sheath on that cable and its not exactly a sterile environment.
Meh, I'm an idiot and that's OK!
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ok so polarize the light in the fiber, gg no interference
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Interesting, good to know! I would have thought they'd be pretty good at not scattering anything.
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Fluorescence is a thing.
The problem here (despite using a giant laser on the least effective way possible) is that any kind of error correction can deal with your pulsing interference, and you are letting the drone get a bit too close.
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But by harnessing disco ball technology, we can make this a multidirectional field defense.
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... and its just overpowered spaceheaters with concave reflector/concentrators, made of hand polished titanium for some reason, that have to be manually aimed.
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Hope you can handle the legal fees for breach of patent law, OP.
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Hey yo, sup.
Yeah looks to me like you're using just a tiny fraction, just a specialized version of what we patented over a decade ago, nothing novel, nothing distinct, just a specific operating mode of our tech.
We can serve you with the lawsuit now, or we can call in a welfare check on your lifeless body within 72 hrs, your choice.
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Umm, one death please! Oh, no. No no no, I meant cake. Please give me cake!
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Well we’re out of cake, we didn’t expect such a rush!
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Why not just put a really big spool of weedwhacker wire on a really fast motor on top of the tank and cut the drone down?
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- Cuts fibre/messes with fibre.
- Drone goes straight forward into the tank.
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- BOUM. Profit.
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Beens months I'm saying a simple flame thrower should easily melt the wires.
Now let's add a hat of flamethrower to tanks. -
how hard would it be to make a radioactive beam. which roll fry any and all electronics in its path,
which will be used in war as a "counterdrone". but used on people would be a serious war crime... which will become common and ignored.
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You got me considering an unshielded, focused/directed microwave beam. And then my dumbass realized I had reinvented the MASER (Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation).
So, why aren't defenders using those?
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Its generally always the same problem with any kind of laser, maser, whatever variant of a beam of intense energy of some frequency:
They require stupendous amounts of energy, and if your platform is mobile, that means batteries.
Batteries that are big, heavy, and tend to immolate like a burning cybertruck at fucking 1800 F or what not if structurally comprimised.
We still have yet to get reliable, hardy, high energy dense batteries to a point where it doesn't either massively weigh down your platform, or require some absurdly expensive production process for a more advanced battery, because we only know how to make 'can test its properties in a lab' volumes, not 'actually industrial scale mass manufacturing' levels.
They make kinda sense on say, a naval mounted rail gun... they do not downscale to truck, tank, infantry scale.
Like you could maybe make a giant rail gun tank with current tech. Maybe.
Problem is it would be ~70% battery by mass, weigh ~250 tons, be able to fire maybe... 5, 10 times? and if basically anything pens the armor, you now have an inferno that will burn for 12 to 24 hours, likely into a slag that actually burns or digs a hole a foot or two into the ground, roughly shaped like its foot print.
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i think masers sort of suck. as when strong enough to be useful they create plasma and plasma scatters the maser.
although I read that quite a while back, so maybe progress has changed that
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Unironically you can shine a laser down the fibers and watch it light up all the way back to the source.
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