☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to TechnologyEnglish · 1 month 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-up3·1 month agoCIWS are there to shoot down cruise missiles, which go reltively slow compared to ballistic missiles. Maybe destroy small drones.
minus-squareOrnluWolfjarllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month 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.