New UK laser could destroy Putin’s drones | Hamish de Bretton-Gordon 

Many respects 🇺🇦 from 🇬🇧

You’ll need more than hope comrade…

​@@drmohammedali1768They've GOT a lot more than hope. The entire civilised world stands with Ukraine.

Slava Ukraini

@@dirtyharry6297 Russia needs hope not Ukraine

CALIFORNIAN! you're not respected here! Get lost

Brilliant News 👌😏 Maybe this laser can go around Britain and fix all the Potholes

@@GeneralMilosivic-db9io HIMARS Harris will like to see it after she gets elected president.

@@robbiekop7 Why do people feel the need to be silly? It reminds me of watching young children pretending to be adults.

I'm being called silly when there's a guy saying HIMARS Harris ....I'm not the one that's Warmongering. I want what's best for the average U.K. Person

@@robbiekop7 Not a frivolous proposition. A lorry with depression mounted sensors - upon sensing a pothole the laser cuts a rectangle, scoops the debris and deposits a measured amount of tarmac - job done!

This is what I was thinking

What's next, teddy bear robot fighters?

@@sharpvidtube Killer dragon fly drones!

I've been hearing £10 per shot.

@@plowe6751 It is not that powerful.

@@plowe6751 Wow. I think you are correct……

Like the Challenger, right? That appeared, received a missile on board and never appears on the battlefield again. 😂

@@plowe6751 he said it has a range of 1 kilometer

The British always name things well.

British weapon names have the best names. Dragonfire, Storm Shadow, Brimstone, Typhoon etc.

Rampant Rabbit 🐇 don't forget that One ☝ 😏

Pretty cool names don't always mean pretty effective things....

Battery powered l assume. 🤔😂

I was thinking the same thing - especially with the Austin Powers' reference.

@@jankwartel1860 nuclear. Tiny freakin nuclear power plant.

Why am I surrounded by friking idiots

Actually you just use thermal imager to detect the mine now, as PLASTIC IS ITS WEAKNESS

True, but it's obviously population centres and infrastructure that the weapon would be protecting. They'd never take it on offensives or front lines. If you can half civilian deaths and protect vital infrastructure then it's just a stalemate given no side is really gaining at the moment

The first batch has already been delivered from Denmark, but there's probably a lot of secrecy about when and where, in general.

The U.K. can't even get an Aircraft Carrier out of Dry Dock to operate on the Sea 🌊

@@robbiekop7 Russia's single aircraft carrier spends more time on fire in dry dock than it does at sea. On rare occasions when it does make it to sea it needs a tugboat to push it around.

Surely a Tug boat pulls things around hence the name *Tug*

I think the Ukrainians could use *blinding* lasers right now,which could fry the Russian drone cameras,rendering them useless. Not to be used against Russian troops,which would be against the Geneva Conventions.

surely, Israel has it Iron Dome, and this is laser, and it works

dragonfire* not dragonfly

It would be city based not at the front lines.

@@Greg29 Yeah if you can stop civilian deaths and damage to power stations and other infrastructure then it's kinda game over for the orcs.

@@Greg29 he said the will be on armored vehicles

I don't think it would be a big deal. The Russians could easily copy them except they can't get their hands on the chips and bits and pieces that they require to make them. The sanctions are working.

Maybe the Chinese have got it already

The largest landowner where I live lost all three sons in WW2 and as a consequence they funded a bomber and gave it to the RAF to reply. The British send their best. God Save the King.

I understand that Putin’s daughter is safe and well in Weybridge, England .

How are their kids responsible for their politics? You sound like from the middle ages or an arab country.

@@honkytonk4465 I get your point. I suppose what I'm saying is 'they' are happy fighting wars with other people's kids lives. So my question is what have everyone else's kids done to deserve being used in a meat grinder for some leaders war who doesn't care about them? If they truly believe in a war enough to sacrifice kids of the nation their own would also be included? If not why not?

Drones are expendable at no risk to the operator. Small aircraft are not the answer, pilots are not expendable. Except in Russia.

@@tikaanipippin : Small aircraft are certainly not a silver bullet... but they are part of the answer. Why? Because, unlike those drones, human flown aircraft can engage in dogfights. And the point of them is not to operate them at the frontlines, but in the rear, around sensitive objects... and most importantly outside of the range of the enemy's anti air systems. This way, the risk to human pilots is minimal, while their effect on slow to manoeuvre drones is devastating. And when you equip drones with counter measures, they lose range and become prohibitively expensive. Of course, there's always a risk, but such is war. The way, Ukraine currently employs the Yak-52 is an effective and moderately safe way of dealing with drones that target objects in the rear.

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I reckon the people developing this have probably considered these issues. If you can only use them in ideal conditions, then so be it, in ideal conditions they will be great.

@@jonm7272 I'm sure they have and I guess this is one of the major deployment issues. Even high velocity tank guns suffer from similar problems - Challenger 2 has a small weather station on its turret to correct for temperature etc and that's firing a very dense AP shot, imagine a load of massless photons bouncing around every which-way.

there are two techniques to sort this out, combined together they provide great result. I suppose its more due to buerocracy, rather than tech stuff

There is. It's called "Ruzzia withdraws from Ukraine."

It's called the orcraine stops committing genocide and returns Russian territory back to Russia.

@@GeneralWinter9 It is called evil.

laser penetrates this fog easy, and if drone moves, fog stays far away, and the laser will follow and shoot continuously, with no stop. I suppose, you never tried 30 kw laser to burn something. it just melts bricks and fire plastics in second. carbon burns out and destroys in 3-5 seconds as well, leaving no structural force left

They have tried nets. Not really a viable alternative to this laser.

ONLY FYI.700 THOUSAND? that's nothing, it's a flesh wound! AHAHA @ ONLY SHOWS EVERYBODY THAT RUSSIAN ARE LOSERS INCOMPETENCE IS A PROBLEM W/RUSSIA FOR 200 YEARS LOL @!LOSERS W/662500 WOUNDED LOL !!

That's what happens when you rely on america for your defense instead of spending money on your own army...serves them right

Russia is using old soviet stocks and North Korean garbage. Russia is sending T55's , golf carts , battle mopeds.

The only thing they DID NOT try -- was total mobilization. Are you ready??

How is Russias three day military invasion of Ukraine going. Russia cannot even win in Ukraine. European Military are not lifting one finger. Russia is being supplied by Iran North Korea and China and buying back Soviet weapons from third World Countries. Tanks from the sixties are now being used by the Russians in Ukraine. Russian Army second best in Ukraine!

The drones will then be shot down .) nothing changes. The laser doesn't care. Mirrors won't work either.

How do you fly a drone among trees without hitting a tree? have you thought this through?

Silver drones = useless laser.

Depends on range. Thankfully drones fly low and are easy targets so eventually they would have to become a target unless it was extremely bad fog or rain. They'd be detected by radar in any weather and the laser could destroy them rapidly when in effective range. They might not be great in all situations but for stopping drones hitting cities and power stations, they'd be awesome.

@@CrazyTechLab And a silver drone?

@@petewright4640 It would not reflect enough to survive. You'd need a perfect mirror free of blemishes to reflect enough of the laser to avoid being melted. Any angles or joins or any material that wasn't a mirror would be melted. Take a look at the current Iranian drones. There's no way you could make them a perfect mirror. It's not like pointing a laser pen at it. It's massively more powerful so any part of the drone that isn't a perfect mirror would absorb the laser and vaporise.

you are right, silver mirror is hard to make perfect on plastic or metal, it will be absorbing a lot of radiation and burn. the only way - make the body of polished silver or gold, but that is insane weight

Then we hear him screaming "Kyiv 3 days". Now we are to be a laugh stock

@@dpelpalwell its not just Ukraine now its nato and the usa

@@BrianHamilton-zv6on Obiden

Join the Army, buy a toilet.

@@BrianHamilton-zv6on USA has no inflation😆

Most major nations have used lasers. This is a different use/kind.

Not at the local greasy cafe

Yes, you can pay more nowadays. £3 isn't unusual in a café.

@@DisleyDavid The proles prefer the greasy caf

Europe has put in more than the US. That is just nonsense.

No because laser is relatively cold..

Not really because the Ukrainians use slightly different tactics, next go back and look at the Vietnam war between my country the US and the North Vietnamese, they held up for a decade against massive fire power from the US military, the Ukrainians can continue to inflict heavy losses on the Russian war machine if the west allows it!

Removal of tattoos

Well if it was developed for human at the right Freq and power it might be able to carve through them, seen those videos of lasers cutting metal pieces out of a large sheet metal?

@@amartin3893 Why don't you write a letter to your MP about your concern?

@@boink800 It's not a concern, just an opinion. If the UK next gen jet is cancelled then I think that's sensible. As long as we still buy next gen jets off the Americans. They take all the risks developing the aircraft and testing it. We just buy the finished the product.

Yes they can

There are reports of them using CS (tear) gas which as it's heavier than air seeps into the trenches

@@evilaquaman that means Ukraine can use it I would think.

​@@billytheweaselNo, it does not.

Ruzzia's gone so crazy that they're committing innumerable War Crimes against their own Troops!!-😨

drones don't tend to fly above cloud cover and how would a drone that is taken out by a laser take out the laser??!?

@@PhilSophia-ox7ep we've got drones with thermovision these days😎

@@Infopirates Why would thermovision matter? 🤔

@@PhilSophia-ox7ep Have you got it in your car? It's very useful in fog or rainy night drive😎

@@Infopirates Again, why would that matter? Most drones don't fly above cloud cover. Meanwhile, all the gun needs is 10 seconds of visibility. I didn't know you live in the land of Lord of the Rings, but fog isn't that dense here on earth.

Yes, reports of CS gas being dropped on Ukrainian troops.

:/ indeed, it's sad to see both sides sinking to such ww1 tactics

@@mrsubject1 "both sides"? 🧐

@@mrsubject1 sure Vlad

@@Cassp0nk lol I thought it was common knowledge that both sides have used chemical warfare because of how bad its gotten but alright guess im a russian bot

Why mirrors? The most effective defense against lasers -- smoke screens. Cheap and easy.

@@РусланЗаурбеков-з6е smoke screen on a moving missile must be hard to maintain....

its not goingb to work

dont worry about collimator😊, it is reliable, cause ot meets diverged beam. some amfplifiers can fail, but not all simultaneously

@@Flexiblesteel1 Hence, the tin foil hat

Its posts like these that argue the thought "not everyone needs to be heard".

@@mgarner845 stop taking yourself so seriously. You'll live a happier life

@@Flexiblesteel1 We like our tin foil hats

​@@mgarner845Its a serious point which is one of the major shortcomings of possible laser weapons. They deliver energy to the target in the form of light. Light can be reflected e.g. tin foil.