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TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
For educational purposes,
It’s a steel deck picnic. That hog is part of the lunch of an entire naval crew. The image is 2 years old was taken on the USS Germantown LSD 42.
It’s a steel deck picnic. That hog is part of the lunch of an entire naval crew. The image is 2 years old was taken on the USS Germantown LSD 42.
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Lieutenant General
Pull pork BBQ time.
Models of Virginia Block V and Columbia class SSBN at Sea-Air-Space Expo 2022.
One thing I wonder about new laser weapons. What if the surface of the missile or projectile was coated with a highly reflective mirror finish?
Mirror doesn't do much since they reflect a relatively narrow wavelength of light. Also, smallest bit of mote or blemish on the coating would cause the whole thing to fail.
You could have a mirror tailored to the wavelength being used. Judging by the article, the wavelength is probably infrared.
As missiles are gyroscopically stabilised, I don't think a small surface blemish would necessarily negate things.
Small blemish causes the mirror surface to deteriorate rapidly when heated.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
That wouldn’t be a mirror finish then. It would be a heat shield. A mirror is a surface that has either been polished or backed by a reflective material primarily in the visible light spectrum.
What you are talking about is a heat shield. A material that either radiates, Ablates or absorbs heat.
A blemish or damage to the shield would create a hot spot behind the shield. The aim of said shield being to buy time vs the laser in hopes that the missile could get to its terminal phase and impact. The downside being increased cost and complexity.