Counterargument:
Laser tanks are impractical. What if the enemy wears mirrored shades? That laser goes right back and kills you instead. You don’t want your 100 million dollar tank to be taken out by a pair of Ray-Bans.
We can put shades on the tank to bounce it right back
I only we had something we could fire that do almost the same arc as that. That would be ballin’! So I’d call it ballistics
Ridiculous! You would basically need the mass of a planet for that to work.
Dangit! We won’t find that anywhere on Earth!
You fools. Look up!
It’s not a “moonshot,” it’s a 360 no-scope.
the tank is confused by its own reflection and attempts to fight itself
If you fire a laser against a mirror, it bounces but raises the heat of the mirror so you end up melting the mirror and destroying the drone.
I may risk being too credible here, but a $80 drone is a lot more expendable than a $40m laser tank. The drone can be considered a consumable. Hell, mark the drones down as ammo.
This was a real concept for the anti-ICMB 747. The idea was to loiter it outside air defense range and then send drones in as reflectors to target the lasers much closer to the threat.
Mirrors melt and break when hit with a laser of more than “pretty lights power”.
This dude built a 2kW one with optics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNmbvaUzC8Q
mirror at ~ 4:30EDIT: I know where I am, that video is too good not to share though. Vote away.
I actually studied laser physics in university and still learn a ton of practical shit from styropyro videos
I rarely give my time to videos that long, but it was awesome for the full half hour. That guy’s having fun. Thanks for sharing.
It’s very important that we give him views before he kills himself doing a YouTube stunt
Nah. This doesn’t count because that guy is clearly from the future when you can buy a 1K laser at the corner store. In 2024, they are a little bit harder to come by.
We don’t need Sky Ranger, mirrorbois or lasertank, we have shitballoons.
Buddy called inverse-square law
Inverse square law is just a geometric limitation, focus your lasers more, problem solved.
