U.S FIGHTERS WILL BE ARMED WITH 'TALWS' - NO AIR TO AIR or SURFACE TO AIR MISSILE WILL TOUCH THEM !

[@drones7838]

Man the F-16s gonna have so much shit bolted to it you’re not gonna be able to actually see the F 16

[@TedForbes21]

LMAO!!!!!!

[@plumbob792]

It really wont matter if u can see it or not! who are u genius. It will unstopable!

[@Foothillpump]

@@plumbob792 Right, it's not a classic car. Who cares what it looks like, just care what it can do.

[@aro3636]

Its like an ar-15 ppl just love showing off how much shit they can attach to it

[@TedForbes21]

@@Foothillpump the fact that they keep rigging stuff to it proves it cant do anything. Times and things changed, time to start over.

[@ThatCarGuy]

The US today used an Aegis SM-3 missile to shoot down in ICBM. A lot of people don't understand how big that is, since it was used prior to shoot down short range ballistic missiles in their boost phase. It now can shoot them down in their midcourse phase, the hardest phase to shoot them down in. "The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), and U.S. Navy sailors aboard an Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) System-equipped destroyer intercepted and destroyed a threat-representative Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) target with a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA missile during a flight test demonstration in the broad ocean area northeast of Hawaii, Nov. 16,” said a statement from the Missile Defense Agency." "A target ICBM missile launched from Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean traveled thousands of miles towards the body of water between Hawaii and the West Coast of the United States mainland."

[@dustinnielson2608]

I cant even image the math on that - shooting a high speed moving target from a moving platform - even if the ship is just sitting in the water, its still moving with all the wave action..

[@ThatCarGuy]

@@dustinnielson2608 It's insane. The fact it uses kinetic energy as well, it's just an amazing missile.

[@Measure-Countermeasure]

Equally impressive is 40 year old RIM116 Rolling Airframe Missile intercepting close-in sea skimming anti-ship missiles with 95% success rate for 120 tests + 100% against Exocet, diving high speed target, maneuvering high speed target, stream raid of two high speed targets and a low IR signature target embedded in a sunglint corridor...

[@bigmike9128]

They need a more powerful shipborne version to stop hypersonic anti ship missile.

[@thebigone9781]

Hahahahihihoho 😂

[@ThatCarGuy]

Lasers can't shoot down hypersonic missiles do to a plasma sheath/cloud they get. Plasma burns hotter then a laser, by a lot(in most cases). Lasers would work on subsonic, supersonic, and possibly slower hypersonic missiles just breaking mach 5 as no plasma cloud has built up. The Russians tried calling this a "plasma shield" which is funny since plasma causes something called plasma black out which kills all communications thus making the missile a dud. Sources below: "The ITER plasma will be ten times hotter than the centre of the Sun. In the depths of the Sun where fusion reactions produce the energy that we perceive as light and heat, temperatures reach 15 million °C." "Plasma blackout is not a worry for USA's hypersonic missiles: Pentagon The US Department of Defense is not concerned that its in-development hypersonic missiles could suffer from a communications blackout caused by a cocoon of plasma. Radioing the high-stakes weapons could be critical, for instance, to abort a mission."

[@joeclaridy]

Nuclear powered aircraft carriers do have the capability to provide enough energy to power these systems.

[@ThatCarGuy]

For hypersonic anti-ship missiles the US has the SM-6 which is already hypersonic and somewhat classified or they will be hypersonic soon by a simple motor upgrade. This is despite the US preferring subsonic, sea skimming, under the radar horizon, low observable missiles. "On January 17, 2018 the U.S. Navy approved plans to develop the SM-6 Block IB, which will feature a 21-inch rocket motor instead of the current 13.5 inch motor. The new variant will significantly increase the missile's range and speed enabling a hypersonic and extended range anti-surface warfare capability." Im pretty sure the new Constellation-class frigates will not have laser weapons on them as they already have a huge load on them with low output MW motors. While the US hasn't given the MW numbers yet, we can look to the FREMM class it's designed from, which as a main and secondary motor, which produce 32 MW for the main the the smaller one has different variants for different countries each producing under 3MW. It's EW suite already consists of COMBATSS-21 Combat Management System, AN/SPY-6(V)3 Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar, AN/SPS-73(V)18, AN/SLQ-61, and AN/SQQ-89F, among any other classified equipment. The Zumwalt as you stated can have a laser as it produces 78 MW. The Ford Class lasers will be the true big boys as it uses the A1B reactor which produces 700MW... And it has two of them...

[@verdebusterAP]

@@ThatCarGuy Did you fall asleep in physics class or just completely miss the class all together first ITER has nothing to do Plasma cloud generation. ITER is experimental reactor Secondly lasers temperatures vary from low to million degrees Fahrenheit Perfectly capable of dealing with hypersonic weapons.

[@iamaloafofbread8926]

Chinese military: No you can't just use lasers America: haha laser goes pew pew

[@iamaloafofbread8926]

@@AEON. Russia: No you can't have a space force America: ha ha spaceship goes vroom

[@plumbob792]

I see u are on top of everything! You Think!

[@TheDoorspook11c]

@@plumbob792 right, the Russians cant arm their tanks with functioning thermal sights but you want us to believe they got a secret? The secret is they are poorly equipped and have a poor military.

[@iamaloafofbread8926]

@@TheDoorspook11c i mean, china is too, the difference is china has human numbers.

[@wildfire3986]

China also has the laser system cause it’s cheaper

[@TheNinjaMarmot]

I hope they commercialize this. We can have fried chicken in less than 5secs.

[@irontongue5389]

No. You will have a frozen chicken with a very small hole burned through it.

[@TheRovingScot]

Some commercial firm will develop something similar like drone

[@nonovyurbiznis2408]

@@irontongue5389 you couldn't just let them have the dream of frying chicken with a military grade laser....

[@genobohez6374]

f 16 is sill never being defeated in a dog fight

[@reb9977]

@Justn Kase unless they are Leones.

[@Rimasta1]

Lasers mounted on larger platforms, like tankers, bombers and awacs would give them a much better self-defense capability. Much of the current Chinese thinking is to go after the tankers to reduce the effectiveness of strike assets. If the tankers could negate the AAM threat, that would be game changing.

[@WWeronko]

Aircraft have more than chaff and flares for countermeasures. Many military aircraft have both offensive and defensive electronic warfare options. The F-18G for example is a specially designed aircraft for electronic warfare for detection, spoofing and jamming that is also armed with anti-radiation missiles for a more permanent solution. Aircraft like the F-15 have installed the EPAWSS that provides the aircraft with advanced electronic warfare solutions. The F-35 carry active, electronically scanned array (AESA) radars with sophisticated electronic attack capabilities, including false targets, network attack, advanced jamming and algorithm-packed data streams. Lasers clearly add an additional dimension to protecting aircraft. However, they are just one element in a extremely complex integrated defensive and offensive environment.

[@viknumbers701]

One thing obvious. A sensitive multiband aircraft receiver will always be able to see an S400 radar signal long before the S400 is able to see an aircraft. This is especially true for a 5th generation stealth aircraft.

[@Measure-Countermeasure]

Correct...but detecting S400 out of standoff weapons range does not eliminate the threat...so low observability counters S400 by allowing deployment of precision strike weapons within range...

[@simondavid811]

I am absolutely positive that, either Nortrop Grumen or Locheed Martin. Already have our next 6th and 7th generation stealth fighter jets equipped with lasers " as weapons "

[@echoromeo384]

Tracking a target and creating an unbroken kill chain is 2 different things. 5th gens currently have little to fear and CHARM and HARM make active arrays a liability.

[@Anarchy_420]

Attempts have been ongoing to create Stealth Pods! Although its infrared detection objective and Track Pod, still progress and perhaps designs could be utilized for Laser Pods!

[@TheLPRnetwork]

Ah yes. Ace Combat lasers will soon become reality.

[@Rusielle]

Now stick it to a giant tower and name it after a mythical sword

[@thebigone9781]

Hahahihiohiho that picture against drone is not possible it need much mega watt it can just blind it, good luck to put a truck in a small plane 😂

[@montys420-]

@@thebigone9781 how wrong you are! The truck or it's size as a whole doesnt have to go into the plane and the jet itself will power the laser

[@tshavfengvang7831]

We're approaching the star wars technological age. Soon, we'll have a death star to engage ICBMs, hypersonic weapons, and a possibility that it may be able to thwart an asteroid from colliding with the Earth. That should put us in even terms with the cosmos.

[@euunul]

@@montys420- impossible, airplanes do not have enough power generation capabilities. Electric generators are huge.

[@mikeharrington878]

Soooo I dunno if it was actually declassified or not, but there was a picture taken of a test system that I believe was labeled as U.S. Army, wherein they used a laser-induced ion-channel plasma beam to half melt a car used as a target. *This.* I truly believe that the 'extra' reactors they're tossing onto so many new U.S. Navy ships are going to be used eventually for this purpose. Even with a plasma double-layer sheath being induced around a hypersonic aircraft/missile, a truly vast power source like a dedicated nuclear reactor could induce a plasma strong enough to discharge into a target's plasma sheath and overcome the breakdown barrier, discharging into the target body and most likely turning it into a cloud of metal vapor sparkling in the air. Even better, new non-Tokamak fusion solutions are being developed with the ability to be truly compact, light, non-radioactive, and requiring only hydrogen as an onboard fuel source. If interested, see www.aureon.ca for information on their SAFIRE reactor, which I'm proud as an Electric Universe proponent to state is based upon the Electric Sun hypothesis of Prof. Donald Scott, among others. They show a design for a nuclear fusion reactor powering a steam boiler/turbine that looks like it fits in one of those smaller intermodal cargo carriers. Welcome to the 21st Century. 😎

[@morlok49]

What about the rear? This is ok if the target is out front... what about if they are being chased?

[@psuedozardozz]

😁 I would imagine future versions would be integrated into the fuselage, they can't leave it as a pod on A-A aircraft.

[@werewally3156]

Yeah I was just thinking that. Maybe there's a prism that can redirect the beam and a lens on the back of the pod. Kinda doubt it.

[@thuggeegaming659]

The concept art is not indicative of the look of the weapon system. Any laser will be gimbled.

[@fallenone.7371]

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[@livefreeordietrying7242]

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[@liberalrationalist8905]

Two problems. Lasers are far less effective in bad weather. Second: what is the recharge rate and capacity? Two missiles coming one second apart, can one laser take out both? How often can it fire before needing to cool down? How many times can it fire before needing maintenance?

[@garrypeek897]

Do you think they are going to tell you?

[@dbcobbster]

No guns? Remember the lesson the F-4 learned? ALWAYS have a backup, whether it's guns or missiles!

[@tq6407]

Still have air to air missiles

[@johnrollex680]

Except that the F4 phantom was being piloted wrong, and even then their K-D ratio was in fact higher when they took the gun out and used only air to air missiles by about 10%. If the enemy has managed to create a weapon that requires us to use guns in air-to-air combat we have already lost the war.

[@Anarchy_420]

Who needs stealth when you can just shoot down missiles at the speed of light! Imagine an F-15EX with multiple Laser Pods!😁👍 (AC-130 and Apache have both already been fitted with Prototype Lasers!)

[@calcrappie8507]

The new F-16V will benefit greatly with TALWS. That new fabulous radar and full link to F-35 is already fantastic. Now the new Viper goes on full offense with the laser upgrade.

[@rayprater5402]

Would not this laser be more effective facing the rear

[@kevinkarbonik2928]

I just watched a Chinese video where they had these already on their space planes stationed in their new death star.

[@1quickster]

The U.S. has been in space since 1986. Its called U.S. Air Space Command. The weapons are like Star Wars.

[@sampride2030]

@@1quickster 60s

[@XyzzTooCold]

India needs one of these

[@stephin1612]

drdo already working on it

[@XyzzTooCold]

@@stephin1612 Any Article

[@JimCOsd55]

The thing this video glossed over is maximum missile range vs no escape zone range - the range a plane is incapable of outmaneuvering a missile. So while the Meteor missile has a range of 160 km, it’s no escape zone is 60 km. The same with the S-400’s longe range 250 km missiles, its actual no escape zone would be about half that if fired at an AWACS or B-52. So an AWACS with a radar range of 800 km could get within 250 km of an S-400 battery with little danger of being shot down. While a B-52 with 1500 km range cruise missile wouldn’t even have to get within an S-400’s radar range of 600 km!??

[@putridplantain1686]

Looks more and more like command and conquer

[@joshlatimer2313]

They already had the plans back then and probably had alot of that technology in reality back in late 90's like jet packs for example

[@wp2746]

Waiting on the phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range myself.

[@pauljimerson8218]

Only what you see here pal

[@nonovyurbiznis2408]

@@pauljimerson8218 🤣 you said that like this was a shopping network or something 🤣😂

[@edisontrent5244]

Perfect for lighting a small room or refridgerator. (Most appliance bulbs are 40w) if this was sufficient to destroy a terminator we would not have much of a problem.

[@urpgag2]

On a clear day, you can kill forever. A dedicated defense platform, or set of them, in air above a carrier would do a great deal of defensive counter measure.

[@Megatron80]

So when do the Gundams come out?🤔

[@nonovyurbiznis2408]

I heard during a UN meeting on C-SPAN that the japanese Already admitted to having Gundams but that was a good while ago ...

[@dariuszrutkowski420]

I was going to say: Ask the Japanese. Those large exiit models are s smoke screen (they ae using early stage models and demonstrators)

[@thebigone9781]

It needs 40-50mega Watts at least and than you need to but a truck in a small plane good luck, just see what rail gun tested needs, it needs a power plant big as a truck

[@r.b.seiple5913]

From the looks of the laser's window on the pod the TALWS appears to have a limited engagment field of view, looks like it can only target objects in a small frontal region...

[@icecold9511]

Um, it turns.

[@icecold9511]

@@urimeltzer197 no one called it magic. Most weapons can't attack multiple targets at the same time. Nor is it the only aspect of missile defense

[@Jadefox32]

it's a concept of placement, if these things can be made light enough you can mount them of various points.

[@MISTERX_5890]

This is giving me Ace Combat vibes

[@wesjohnson9334]

Right. Dude PLSL is overpowered if you can stay on target. Take a Carrier out with a single plane in a single pass lol

[@vegasstrongsanchez7105]

Wow this is one of my favorite channels to watch. Nobody knows american technology like this guy. Thumbs Up

[@apocraphontripp4728]

Like the A10 is built around its weapon system, this too needs a dedicated plane. Something with the power for multiple shots and a dedicated tracking system. A turbine for dedicated power production would be ideal. Spool it up, store the power in a dedicated capacitor and fire. Aircraft speed and stealth are irrelevant. Basically, a flying AGIS and power generator. Sounds like a job for the B1 or imagine a modified SR 71. The TALWS -1 or TALWS - 71 that will put some fear into our advasaries. Have it fly at 80,000 feet above our fighters and let them do what they do best.

[@billwhitis9997]

Yeah, Lockheed Martin. Mid 2020's? More like the mid 2030's, along with being several hundred billion over budget. It's nice to be unaudited.

[@HAHA.GoodMeme]

I'll take one of these pod-mounted lasers for my truck, thanks

[@thebigone9781]

Hahahihiohiho you need a truck for a power plant this is to blind a missel, you need 40-50mega watt power plant and its big as a truck, this guy is dreaming,

[@cowboy7684]

Great videos , The U.S launched a new spy satellite 11/14/2020 or close to that date, it would be great to hear your break down on that

[@edrdnc6706]

Directed Energy Weapons have long been known to have a major concern. Where is the energy coming from? IE: the laser and/or rail guns proposed for the latest US carriers will actually have electricity to spare, because the carriers were designed from the keel to have a LOT of surplus Amps. The only alternative I can see is if the low power pulses proposed here are still accurate enough to pulse-vibrate the target enough to disrupt something inside. IE: not blast a hole in them, just tap them VERY fast.

[@CherryBoyReloaded]

Next G 3 stream adaptive cycle engines are designed to provide the 30kw required for an effective directed energy weapon...but how to track an incoming low observable missile maneuvering at supersonic speeds long enough to transfer destructive energy is extremely challenging...so may be used to degrade, disable or blind missile homing sensors to reduce their effectiveness...

[@robertblack6941]

If this is deployed, for sure someone will come up with a countermeasure. That’s the way these things go.

[@irontongue5389]

It's pretty much impossible to counter a straight beam of light. Light will always be faster than anything man-made thrown at it. Perhaps countries will go to mirror-polished missiles to help deflect a laser. Other method is to add ablatives inside or outside missiles for laser to burn through, but this would mean heavier & slower missiles.

[@Veldtian1]

@@irontongue5389 yeah but will the laser be powerful enough to kill the missile in time, that's the real issue.

[@icecold9511]

@@Veldtian1 Do you think they would bother if it wasn't? And a lot of weapons get defenses worked out. Chaff and flares against missiles. But those are limited defenses. The suggestion of mirror polished missiles for instance. It can probably reflect a little, until the damage mounts. Most likely simple polished metal won't have a meaningful impact, and will be hard to accomplish and maintain.

[@Measure-Countermeasure]

Yep!...lasers also need fire control for aiming so same geometric stealth and RAM on cruise missiles will be used on anti aircraft missiles...but optimized for light frequencies instead of radio frequencies...

[@tclanjtopsom4846]

So much has changed since this vid came out. But the number of 5th gen fighters and 6th gen well into production as well as hypersonic anti missile defense

[@akigreus9424]

Ahh the anti-tictac gun is now in service. :D

[@krtcampbell9007]

If it's going to protect from incoming missiles I think its pointing the wrong way. With very limited understanding of air combat I assumed most kinds of missiles are strikes from the rear. So why would it be facing forward as that's not very smart.

[@edbliek9895]

What does it do against a simple smoke/dusting device.?? Will it be blinded?

[@calcrappie8507]

I think the laser pod and advanced targeting radar will be fully linked. The beam itself might be attenuated though. Good question.

[@madmaximus2836]

The missile manufacture could coat their missiles with a reflective coating that has maximum reflectivity at the peak wavelength of the laser. This should render the laser useless or at least reduce its efficacy. To cover the full visual spectrum of any visual laser a specular mirror like coating will also work. Alternatively a highly reflective white coat will cause the laser to be reflected in a Lambertian-like scattering pattern. There are white coatings out there that are >99% reflective (example: the internal coating used in integrating spheres). Hope the smart guys at LHM considered all these potential counter measures. Perhaps reflective coatings are damaged by air friction if the missile travel as high mach speeds.

[@Measure-Countermeasure]

Reflected light is what directed energy weapons will use for aiming same as radar seeking weapons home in on targets...so directed energy weapon countermeasures are geometric stealth design that deflects energy away from the laser weapon targeting sensor...and energy absorbent coating to mitigate reflected energy as used on stealth cruise missiles for radio frequencies...but optimized for light frequencies...

[@Lord_Shadowz]

They need lasers on the F-35 B/C models. In the C model there’s room behind the cockpit to put it internally. Remember a belt buckle is technically military equipment. Lol

[@erossdabossbeats]

What About Protection From Bullets? And Most Missiles Are From Behind So Hopefull They Make Sure That Laser Weapon Is 360 Degree Rotation

[@jcbraka3771]

A hand formation of those aircrafts flying around the high valuable assets (AWACS, TANKERS, TACAMOS, JSTARS) would be the answer to a robust and integrated A2AD.

[@jo-jobighiker5552]

Doesn't Raytheon make a towed decoy?

[@badlandskid]

That would be perfect on an A10

[@johnrollex680]

Let's see if this time we don't cancel the project. Laser weapon projects don't exactly have an incredible track record.

[@cossacktwofive4974]

This reminds me of something from Command and Conquer Generals...except that in the game, such system is mounted on a tank. Or Ace Combat.

[@simondavid811]

But the cool thing is , we'll be the first to have such a system. And beyond that...

[@caseylimbert266]

Next step is to integrate these into the F35 and F22 so it can fit into the fuselage and keep the stealthy shape of the aircraft

[@urimeltzer197]

or maybe make a stealthy pylon for it to be put on a wing, which would simpler and less expensive. otherwise they would have to modify aircraft.

[@patmacken5130]

Completely not mentioned by the video is the most obvious place to put this system: EF-18 Growler. It would totally make sense to first equip the jet used for suppressing air defenses. Eliminate the air defense and you need not equip the rest of your forces with it.

[@tq6407]

The b52 could carry 2 to protect them.

[@lopezb]

But if the missiles are mirrored?

[@JamesLaserpimpWalsh]

They SAY it will work but what about in lashing rain? Or a snow blizzard? Or in thick fog? All these things would render some little thing like that as useless as pigiron.

[@scottjackson5173]

I can just picture a flight of B-52s armed with lazer turrets and ECM, overhead hostile territory. Lol! Anything we can't jam, gets a lazer burn!

[@CGDreams80]

So why does the US publish new military advance weapons publicly? Do they know other countries can see this???....

[@Homoprimatesapiens]

I suppose the incoming missiles will slow down and stop making evasive movements in order give the slow acting laser device and laser beam a chance to do a propper job. Otherwise the laser will be quite incapable to do its job as intended.

[@alw2839]

This music is sufficiently unnerving but it kinda makes it hard to watch. I still love your videos though ❤ ( for context I don't watch many military videos)

[@theteacher3148]

@Harry Callahan I agree, the music is awesome, that guy's a soy drinker.

[@howhigh0521]

I bet it’s for all the foreign adversaries who watch this and try to get intelligence on our military arms. I think it supposed to scare the shut out of em😂 Why else have this scary music!!

[@alw2839]

@@howhigh0521 🤣

[@koshersalaami]

The main question this leaves me with is whether fourth generation gets with TALWS will be more survivable in general than fifth generation jets without it. The secondary question is whether TALWS - or rather when TALWS - will become the offensive air to air fighter weapon of choice. If TALWS becomes generally deployable, particularly if it can track in multiple directions without having to point the fighter elsewhere, the platform of choice will become the F35, not because of its stealth - which TALWS would neutralize by being external - but because of its enormous networking capability and sensor suite. The F35 will become a far more valuable jet than the F22 because communications and sensing ability will be more valuable both offensively and defensively than extreme stealth or extreme agility. This of course assumes that most enemies would have advanced enough radar to detect stealth. That’s not guaranteed. I would assume Russia would get there first, assuming Russia can afford to. Their military engineering is too far beyond China’s. How politics pans out is another question . At the moment, China is not doing well in a lot of important military hardware areas, needing to reverse engineer what they get from Russia and not being all that effective at that engineering, either from Russia or from secrets stolen from the US, particularly involving stealth. Chinese relations with Russia are lousy at the moment, like Chinese relations with damned near everyone, including unexpected parties like Kazakhstan and Ecuador. (Yes, really,, Ecuador. They overfished around the Galápagos Islands.)

[@GreenspudTrades]

Works just like the laser upgrade in Command and Conquer Generals!

[@CMp-bq1bj]

Anybody remember C&C generals? remember the Americans get a laser pod after you upgrade them to shoot down missiles LOL. Score another Nosterdamus like prediction for Command and Conquer.

[@tonysu8860]

All I can say is, I hope to never see a laser weapon mounted and aimed as depicted in the video's illustrations... like FLIR pods. Ideally, the laser should be aimed through mirrors in a turret, enabling coverage of an entire hemisphere of a plane. In fact, probably ideal would be to mount one laser weapon under and another on top of the plane to get full spherical coverage.

[@girirajpatankar4468]

Please increase your sound

[@oldkid8811]

will not work unless plane looks like a shark

[@clarencehopkins7832]

Excellent stuff get it done

[@tommyhartman]

Why in the world does your audio guy think a beeping/ring should included in your background?

[@skip123davis]

i was initially skeptical, but who knows? maybe it could work.there are significant technical issues though.

[@tegrity5822]

WHAT ABOUT ELEMENT 115. I WANNA SEE WHAT THEIR ACTUALLY DOING.

[@ethan7353]

Bob Lazar is a genius who made up an elaborate story as cover for an affair he was having with his wife. Reality is simpler than you think.

[@pzakkly3976]

A lot of talk about laser weapons lately Laser weapons are game changer

[@richardlumleysmith2843]

Problem what is defending rear of fighter?. Hypersonic missiles will avoin laser when attacking plane!

[@firewaterforgeofarizona4304]

At 7:10, in what universe do they put the Aim 9 under the wing while placing the Aim 120 on the wing tips?

[@sargesacker2599]

They actually do it, in some military exercise videos you can see that weird loadout.

[@paulmcdaniel5285]

Now all Russia and China has to do is put a laser resistant coat on their missles ...mwaaahahahahaaaaa!!!

[@billbird6443]

How about stationing this laser all around the USA and its allies to counter any incoming threats from its enemy.

[@dennisarzubiaga2833]

I love those planes F-16s dang

[@halcionkoenig243]

Funny, because Q on 8kun mentioned this system being actively used on Airforce One's F-16 escorts.

[@auro1986]

will you replace guns with this laser? can pod spin and shoot missile incoming behind fighter?

[@reb9977]

just use troll physics.

[@auro1986]

@@reb9977 there were many trolls in troll movie. which troll physics?

[@sastrygdp1957]

Provided that they will be able to fly!

[@richard999]

5 years away from deployment at the earliest - likely that one or more of Israel, Russia, India or China will beat them to the punch. Secondly, no such system I have seen is instantaneous giving options to the incoming missile for evasion. Finally, hypersonic missiles already have significant heat protection.

[@craigkdillon]

Can a laser weapon be defeated by coating a missile with a material that reflects the wavelength used by the laser? Basically, can it be defeated with mirrors???

[@CherryBoyReloaded]

Reverse the logic...lasers like radar aim with energy reflected back by the target...so design the missile to reflect energy away like stealth cruise missiles + RAM = radar or in this case LAM = light absorbing material yo mitigate reflections depending on how much energy can be absorbed by the coating...thus low observability for detection, tracking and targeting...

[@cfrasier1419]

The F-16 was always one my least favorite fighters, but it’s growing on me. When you listen to the pilots that fly it, they love it. But they would rather be in an F-35.

[@marksolarz3756]

Better have it point fore and aft.....even run wild weasel missions...to draw S400 and other anti air. 15,000mph vs 186,000 miles a second. I suppose you could even rig something with multiple pods. Power and Range will only increase. Akin to the machine gun..or rocket. The first ones were limited in there effectiveness...technology and manufacturing makes all the difference. For a while...the gun itself was considered obsolete...missle’s only. BIG MISTAKE! They hurriedly had to mount pod mounted machine guns for dogfighting and ground straffing. It’s been on our fighters ever since. Planes are platforms..can only carry so much. However even a Poseidon aircraft could use one for tail protection. Wouldn’t mind seeing four or five pods mounted....be very effective against drone swarms. Power of the beam...disrupts more then blows up anything....but that’s enough.....for now. In space no one can hear you scream.....or limit the effectiveness of laser mounted systems. Not at ground targets so much as....satilites. Or command and control aircraft. At this time....the ship ones can burn paint. Air ones can mess with guidance. And that’s just in the last few years. Hell....even a machinegun from space has tremendous kinetic energy. But is slow compared to Laser. And ammo must be replaced. Light....need only recharge. Both an asset and it’s flaw. Best to have both types. And a few others.

[@AaaAaa-ib3tl]

How laser can work on jet while doing acrobatics?

[@ColonelJohnmatrix1000]

These phased plazma lasers in the 40Watt range would be deadly in air to air engagements.

[@Measure-Countermeasure]

40W laser would have extremely short ranges to be effective as an anti missile weapon...so the plan is for 30kW laser...

[@ColonelJohnmatrix1000]

@@Measure-Countermeasure the Terminator was using the 40W range.

[@oneshotme]

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[@Kirovets7011]

Lasers on fighter aircraft?! Well, that's a long way to go.

[@livefreeordietrying7242]

I GIVE THESE HARD WORKING AMERICANS 2 /4 YEARS BEFOR THEY TELL THE WORLD THERE IN WORKING ORDER.🇺🇲🗽🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲🗽🇺🇲🦅

[@Measure-Countermeasure]

Next G 3 stream adaptive cycle fighter turbofan engines are designed to provide the 30kW required for directed energy weapons...in the meantime 10kW lasers are already developed to disrupt, disable or blind missile homing sensors but only at limited ranges...

[@tclanjtopsom4846]

The power of the lazer is much more than the engine can produce so they will probably remain on ships for the foreseeable future as far as I can tell.

[@thuggeegaming659]

It wasn't stated what type of laser this is. Chemical lasers don't use engine power for the source of their energy, although the number of laser pulses the laser can shoot is limited by onboard chemicals that are consumed when the laser is fired, effectively limiting the number of uses per mission, although even being able to shoot off 3 or 4 laser pulses can mean the difference between life and death. More than likely, it's a chemical laser.

[@richardpluim4426]

Perhaps, they could add a microwave oven for hot inflight meals.Also a box of hot Tim Hortons coffee.

[@dalestephan6777]

Laser requires a long burst to shoot anything.. Its not a zap, your dead.. So its target, track during beam phase and zap. The stuff you see on videos are target drones , not 500 plus mph fighter. So if you fly with orange goggles, you see the laser and get the hell out of there lol

[@thepatriotickafir8859]

Can you make a video on how Future jets protect itself from future defence system like lasers, EMP etc.

[@Jadefox32]

you either need something that can absorb and dissipate the energy in the lasers wave lengths as part of an active system or something reflective enough and no the common mirror is not that effective.

[@kaziulaz]

Reflective surface, ablating coating ? Laser are not that super duper how it sound

[@icecold9511]

Reflecting isn't that simple, both concepts require weight. At this point, you've defeated yourself.

[@Tiagomottadmello]

Great video !!!! 👍👍👍

[@haryl2011]

When US Forces gettin more funding, this is what their getting at.

[@geraldtodd6633]

Don't worry, the funding will dry up when Biden gets into office.

[@person6539]

@@geraldtodd6633 apparently Biden wont to much of a difference to the defence budget, instead he will cut down "forever wars" to make more funding for projects like this. They might try and get rid of a few nuclear programmes like the sea-launched nuclear cruise missile or some low-yield nuclear weapons but that will be all.

[@geraldtodd6633]

@@person6539 You may believe that but I believe the influence of the more vocal democrats will push Biden to treat the military much as Obama did.

[@akira3648]

so far what i see is the usa going on a offensive mode and the other countries on defense mod, who is the aggressor again???

[@Measure-Countermeasure]

Claiming E.Ukraine and South China Sea are defensive?

[@stevengegar9709]

It won't find the F-117, it blocks and fires upon the s400

[@Phil-D83]

Uss defiant from ds9 type phaser canon

[@aunsnusra817]

What will happen to the missile company...?

[@reb9977]

they will have lasers installed on the missiles.

[@toffanful]

Why not focus on getting our planes to fly in the rain first?!

[@mmmikeyyy]

Wouldn't a highly reflective surface be an efficient and inexpensive protection against laser weapons?

[@edrdnc6706]

Many science fiction stories tell us a mirror surface is effective, but also a surface that is colored the same as the laser. IE: a green surface reflects green light, including green laser light.

[@madisondines7441]

Not necessarily. There are few, if any substances which are reflective across the entire range of EM wavelengths.

[@icecold9511]

Reflective surfaces of that quality are not cheap and are heavy. You just made your missiles worthless.

[@icecold9511]

@@madisondines7441 Also would have to be of extreme quality to work, and likely heavy.

[@williamblaker2628]

The laser pod shown in this video appears to be unidirectional, so that the fighter would have to physically face its target for the duration of the pulse. Since a target, such as a missile, will rapidly change its position relative to the jet, this would be inadequate, and also doesn't address threats coming from a direction that doesn't come from the jet's front. If this is just a proof-of-concept, that's fine, but it wouldn't work in an actual threat environment. A workable solution would probably need to be a dome that is transparent to the wavelength of the laser, and allows the laser head to move inside the dome to rapidly track moving targets, and address targets that approach from a variety of directions. Such a dome could be shaped in a way to not reflect radar waves, so it could be reasonably stealthy. Currently, a laser small enough to mount on a fighter wouldn't be powerful enough to *instantly* zap a missile. It would require tracking the missile while firing a long duration pulse. This will likely improve over time as the technology develops. Countermeasures to a laser can be as simple as making a missile highly reflective to that wavelength of light. Such mirrored surfaces could reflect as much as 98% of the laser energy. Lasers also don't work well through smoke, as smoke is made of tiny suspended particles that deflect and disperse light. Fog & clouds also attenuate light, but less so than smoke.

[@icecold9511]

The head traverses and aft chasing missiles are short range. This is a planned combat weapon, not proof of concept design. Trust me, they have thought about these issues.

[@tigerpjm]

Except that the vast majority of missiles are fired from in front of a fighter....

[@williamblaker2628]

@@tigerpjm Maybe. I don't think there are stats on that. Intercepting aircraft can be launching missiles from any angle. Ground-based SAMs are launched from below. Sea-launched missiles are launched from below. Also, with a non-traversable, fixed mount the aircraft would have to turn to point *exactly* at the missile without wavering even by a fraction of a degree for the duration of the pulse needed to destroy a missile. How long is that pulse? Hard to say. Depends on the missile, depends on the output and frequency of the laser, depends on atmospheric interference, like clouds or water vapor is present. Seconds? Unknown.

[@tigerpjm]

@@williamblaker2628 You don't need stats, it's just a fact of aircraft generally flying in a forwards direction. Why would an intercepting aircraft be coming from behind? Non-traversible? Who said the laser isn't on a gimbal, like the radar? On the subject of radars, how many aircraft have rear facing radars? Why do you think this is? (Hint: it's where the threats come from)

[@williamblaker2628]

@@tigerpjm look at the laser mounted on the aircraft. It's fixed. Ground and sea launched missiles always come from below the aircraft, never from the front. Yes, the surface which lies generally front ward with respect to the aircraft, but from an angle, not straight and level toward the aircraft; and can be from a variety of angles left or right. As for intercepting fighters, they can be sortied from anywhere. Maybe from exactly dead-on front ward, but more likely from some other angle. If you're flying a mission toward, let's say Moscow, intercepting aircraft don't necessarily have to sortie from Moscow. They can sortie from any air base within range of your flight path, or even multiple bases. Further, SAM sites won't only be in Moscow. They'll be in a variety of locations left and right, and maybe even behind, as some launches may not occur until you've past them.

[@jonmurph589]

Great video (GV). Could incoming missiles (IM) be covered in a highly reflective coating (HRC) to negate the effect of lasers (L) ?

[@kcggaming5138]

That just makes the missile easier to track.

[@richardsrichards2984]

Yes u could...but i doubt a missile can be reflective in all the entire electromagnetic spectrum..u can be shinny to visible light bt what about if the laser uses infrared or ultraviolet radiation?it renders reflective coating of no use

[@jonmurph589]

The laser will only operate in one part of the spectrum. Won’t take long to figure out which one.... Also, just because part of the spectrum is invisible to the human eye doesn’t mean it can’t be reflected

[@richardsrichards2984]

@@jonmurph589 NO....there are multi spectrum lasers...yes u can reflect light which is not visible light bt i dare u to find a material which will reflect all the electromagnetic spectrum at the same time.Multi spectrum not to mean they emit the entire spectrum at the same time bt to mean one can choose which frequency to operate at at a specific time

[@jonmurph589]

No material reflects the entire spectrum perfectly, but some specialised mirrors can reflect large ranges of wavelengths. A gold mirror will reflect all visible, ir, uv, radio. Don’t know about gamma, X-ray etc. It doesn’t have to be perfect, just good enough to keep the heat down while the missile covers the last few miles.

[@Migman2020]

How the hell are they going to bleed off enough energy from the engine without killing its performance to power a laser that can actually do its job?

[@urimeltzer197]

thank you thats what i said!