• Socsa@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    This was a real concept for the anti-ICMB 747. The idea was to loiter it outside air defense range and then send drones in as reflectors to target the lasers much closer to the threat.

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      4 months ago

      Interesting! Yeah, I think in the right atmospheric conditions this could absolutely work.

      Why it’s NCD, as drawn, is that shells already exist and do exactly this when fired on an indirect arc.