☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to TechnologyEnglish · 4 months agoThe U.S. Military Is Freaked: Lasers are No Secret Weapon Against Hypersonic Missilesnationalinterest.orgexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up139arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: technology@hexbear.nettechnology@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareFranfran2424linkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 months agoCIWS are there to shoot down cruise missiles, which go reltively slow compared to ballistic missiles. Maybe destroy small drones.
minus-squareOrnluWolfjarllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 months agoYeah, sorry, I wasn’t clear. I was talking about hypersonic missiles in response to the thread above.
CIWS are there to shoot down cruise missiles, which go reltively slow compared to ballistic missiles. Maybe destroy small drones.
Yeah, sorry, I wasn’t clear. I was talking about hypersonic missiles in response to the thread above.