Or just have a thin layer of ablative armor designed to maximize laser bloom. We either need a lot more power behind these beams, better adaptive optics, or best of all really responsive phase conjugation to overcome realistic countermeasures.
I’ll take a wall of tungsten carbide, steel and lead over something that can be defeated by a foggy day. The promises of DEWs are enormous, but we’re not there yet.
I’ll take a wall of tungsten carbide, steel and lead over something that can be defeated by a foggy day. The promises of DEWs are enormous, but we’re not there yet.