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Originally Posted by starkind
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Xray and infrared lazers are ez. Just expensive. Cheeper than nuclear missiles. P.s. it's really old technology and they are super reliable and ez to target the government just wanted more money and the public to not realize it could instantly be vaporized from miles away before they could realize. I've seen these devices in action. They're not that big and single shot ones are about the size of small trucks now.
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its not that the projectiles are too slow to intercept, AA defenses could in theory hit something going mach 20, the problem, even for laser weapons, is the time required from initial incoming warning, to target aquisition, to calculated firing solution, can usually be several minutes, 5, 10, maybe 30 -- all of this is no big deal for old ICBMs, they fly slow predictable paths.
The nuclear ramjet missle is reported to be able to alter course at hypersonic speeds, or just leave and come back from another angle, or just fly randomized patterns, or go to another target, if it detects tough air defenses.
toss in some A.I. computations to this platform and you built something that no one could ever defend against, in theory.
it just basically hits you before you can get your shit together.
edit: mentioning laser weapon development is insanely cheap, and firing the new one on the ford class carrier costs like .62 cents per, shot, compared to millions per missle