Yet another model of a laser weapon on display, this time at the Singapore Airshow. I don't recall seeing this particular system before.
Looks like a modification of this system.
Poly's export laser weapon system at IDEX 2023.
chinese laser weapon development
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Looks like a modification of this system.
by78
General
This is likely a separate, low-cost solution compared to the one shown at IDEX 2023, which had four fixed AESA panels and a substantially more sophisticated turret.
by78
General
Yet another model of a laser weapon on display, this time at the Singapore Airshow. I don't recall seeing this particular system before.
A better look at the model of that unknown laser weapon.
Yankeesama claims that lasers won’t replace point defense guns in the PLA since their respective strengths perfectly complement the other’s weaknesses. Even though lasers are cheap and does not require ballistic corrections, it is weather dependent and have a “spool up” charging time during which guns could provide cover fire.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
Impossible to know without much details on the Dragonfire system. We don’t even know basic info like output other than being in the 50kw range. That’s like trying to compare cars without even knowing the engine capacity.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
I read that DragonFire has a range of just over kilometer. Laser energy dissipates quickly in an atmosphere. A kilometer range is not a lot. It's for drones because drones move slow enough to be tracked giving the laser time to burn through so it can be effective.
Look at the cancelled airborne laser program to shoot down ICBMs. They cancelled it because it was riding off the fantasies of young boys to get funding of what is technologically impossible for the foreseeable future. The airborne laser would have to be virtually loitering over its target before the ICBM is launched in order to have a chance at being successful. That means the airborne laser has to be over enemy territory where it'll get shot down. Not only do you have a problem of range because the further away, the more energy exponentially you will need, you have to have the technology to be able to track and train a laser on one spot on your target from hundreds to thousands of miles away. If that technology was possible today, why just ICBMs? It could shoot down anything over a battlefield in an instant. You see video footage over battlefields of soldiers and vehicles moving across. This laser could instantly vaporize them from long distances. Why don't we hear this advertised when it's doesn't have the same requirements of an airborne laser to shoot down an ICBM? Because the technology still doesn't exist to make it possible.
So what does it say when your laser only has an effective range of a kilometer and can only shoot down slow moving targets like drones? It doesn't sound like the British have anything over China.
Look at the cancelled airborne laser program to shoot down ICBMs. They cancelled it because it was riding off the fantasies of young boys to get funding of what is technologically impossible for the foreseeable future. The airborne laser would have to be virtually loitering over its target before the ICBM is launched in order to have a chance at being successful. That means the airborne laser has to be over enemy territory where it'll get shot down. Not only do you have a problem of range because the further away, the more energy exponentially you will need, you have to have the technology to be able to track and train a laser on one spot on your target from hundreds to thousands of miles away. If that technology was possible today, why just ICBMs? It could shoot down anything over a battlefield in an instant. You see video footage over battlefields of soldiers and vehicles moving across. This laser could instantly vaporize them from long distances. Why don't we hear this advertised when it's doesn't have the same requirements of an airborne laser to shoot down an ICBM? Because the technology still doesn't exist to make it possible.
So what does it say when your laser only has an effective range of a kilometer and can only shoot down slow moving targets like drones? It doesn't sound like the British have anything over China.
lcloo
Captain
While British is still testing the Dragonfire, China has deployed their Silent Hunter in 2016 G20 meeting in Hangzhou. Also Saudi Arabia has used Silent Hunter against Houthi drones and missiles with success, so it is battlefield tested and proven.
Silent Hunter is effective up to 4km, latest improved Silent Hunter version is design to be able to hit incoming mortar shells and rockets.