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Old March 14th, 2024, 06:41 AM
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Default Re: What happens in 2025? / new tactics- new technologies

Back to lasers:

https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/statu...66050308551008

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Britain showed the results of the DragonFire combat laser.

It is reported that the photos of the British government laboratory of defense equipment shows the results of the laser - it burned through a 120-mm mortar shell, cut the metal casing and burned the camera of the copter.

Also the day before, the British Ministry of Defense showed a video of a laser test.

DragonFire was successfully tested in January of this year. The laser is stated to be very accurate with a direct beam, can hit visible targets at the speed of light, and is very cheap to use.

Bunch of media at that twitter post; but the one most of interest (once I do calculations) is this:

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