South Korea is beginning the mass production of a low-cost laser weapon that has successfully shot down small drones during testing, the country’s key arms agency said Thursday.
The laser might be invisible to the naked eye, but it would still be visible in infrared or other spectrums, and so it will be fairly easy to watch and see where the laser comes from and then strike that location.
That’s true, I was assuming it would scatter a fair bit, but it isn’t an extremely high powered laser, it’s designed to take down small drones, so it may not be as visible as I thought. I suppose it could still be worked out via good old fashioned triangulation though, but that would probably be quite difficult with a laser.
The laser might be invisible to the naked eye, but it would still be visible in infrared or other spectrums, and so it will be fairly easy to watch and see where the laser comes from and then strike that location.
Wouldn’t that still require for the scattering to be significant enough? If so, how are we sure that that is the case?
That’s true, I was assuming it would scatter a fair bit, but it isn’t an extremely high powered laser, it’s designed to take down small drones, so it may not be as visible as I thought. I suppose it could still be worked out via good old fashioned triangulation though, but that would probably be quite difficult with a laser.