@IAMAL_PHARIUS Lasers tho? They have the mosquito laser turrets they started building over a decade ago that are probably going to be used for anti drone tech at some point. Better to test on bugs first.
@IAMAL_PHARIUS I remember seeing something about a 747 sized plane that was just a housing for a gian laser for long-range AA and anti-balistic work. It hit the news in the early 00s roughly. It was like the A10 (what if we built a plane around a gun!) but for a big laser. I'd like to see cool sci-fi tech instead of just decay and sexual degeneracy in my cuperpunk dystopia.
@BowsacNoodle lasers are expensive and since its gonna be short ranged (youre gonna be shooting low flying drones. which requires line of sight) its gonna get hit.
germans have the right idea of going back into autocannon flak.
Someone said we might also be going back to zepplins with chain nets because the current drones that are cheap have a lower altitude ceiling. Fucking WWII is back on the menu boys.
zeppelins, no. by the time you apply enough armor to protect them from an rpg, it will be too heavy to fly. lasers, no, they are ridiculously fragile. if a lens gets scratched or something, it will self destruct.