Chinese laser weapon development

Taiban said:

队 is generally a team / Squadron / group as per my understanding. I maybe wrong. Please correct me.

Anti-drone division maybe a big change in organisation structures since commentator & Xinhua claims show from a CAB ex 75th Group Army & PLAAF SAM Brigade. Please do correct me if I am wrong

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No you are right. I’ve been liberal with my phrasing.

siegecrossbow said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1963886819965280743

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1963907487335063631

Saudi defense researcher wrote rebuttal to article. If it the Silent Hunter were really as useless as the article implied then why did the Saudi government give awards to both the first soldier to perform the intercept and the Norinco support engineers?

Such articles are simply counter programs against the reveal of LY-1 and OW-5 series of combat lasers during the September 3rd parade. In short, it is a form of digital burnol for their irritated behinds.

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is Russians deliberately planted this story to throw dirt on Silent Hunter, maybe so they can negotiate for a better price for them. That's why it's so different from earlier Saudi report of its successful and why it has crazy numbers like it took 30 minutes of continuous laser fire to bring down a drone, because they don't know jack about laser.

Alternatively and maybe the more likely reason: Ukrainians are trying to dissuade Russians from buying them, :


A combat proven system which has previously demonstrated its ability to protect Saudi refineries from Houthi drones, can you think of another customer at the moment who might be interested?

Here's the article again:
Just in case you need to confirm it's the Editor-in-Chief himself who wrote it.

By the way, the very same Defence Blog themselves reported on the great success Saudi was having with this system month earlier: