No.1801811
I was briefly discussing how hypersonics could make imperialism untenable, i.e, provide a way for weapons to shut down American bases and carriers anywhere on the globe, but it turns out the Americans are working on megawatt lasers to counter.
The Chinese are claiming to counter with their own anti-laser coating, that ablatively resists megawatt lasers at around 1 km ranges.
But the technology in general seems interesting; i.e, laser maturity is growing at a tremendous rate, and the J-20 is better designed for laser paradigm warfare than the F-35 (the side weapons bay allows the J-20 to carry two laser pods externally, and the two F119-class engines in the WS-15 should be able to generate greater total power than the single F135.).
How much do we know about lasers? For instance, the Chinese were advertising a megawatt class pulse laser, but when it comes to pulse lasers, petawatt lasers are already common.
No.1801812
Reminded me of laser anon who went insane and got arrested
No.1801911
do not look into laser with remaining eye
No.1801914
>>1801812I ripped his youtube vids before it was taken down and posted them on /siberia/ but I have no idea if the thread got archived. no longer have them on my hard drive
No.1801938
>>1801811Hypersonics have plasma coating, laser can't affect through that
No.1802646
Lasers will bring Communism because anybody can start a Communist militia with lasers and take out capitalist forces. Lasers are literally the new shining path.
No.1808623
On a completely unrelated note, imagine if part of the reason for the tendency of the rate profit to fall is that attempts to reset it through weapons development for imperialism are increasingly expensive.
No.1808683
>I was briefly discussing how hypersonics could make imperialism untenable, i.e, provide a way for weapons to shut down American bases and carriers anywhere on the globe, but it turns out the Americans are working on megawatt lasers to counter.
That's funny because the last time generals fell for the meme of first strike advantage due to technological superiority triggered by rapid technological progression we got the worst trench warfare in history.
No.1808723
>>1808683Um what? In WW1, defenders had the technological advantage, artillery. To have a first strike advantage, you would need a longer ranged weapon.
No.1808732
>>1801812>>1808608Is that the schizo guy who was always threatening to blind people with lasers years ago? He was on 4chan. I think he even posted here sometimes. He's dead then?
No.1808735
>>1808723I am sorry but you lack basic reading comprehension
No.1808746
>>1808732yes it's him, and no he's not dead, the pussy turned himself in
No.1808783
>>1801812He was already insane
No.1808870
>>1808735You need to express yourself clearly then. WW1 was fought with artillery and that's a defenders weapon, nobody thought it would give first strike advantages.