What happened to Laser Tanks? 

Yes you are right, they called them blasters

Fortunately, yes.

You get the same effect in the real world with tracer rounds so why worry?

Or a solid fuel

That was a huge Light Saber!

or is it? the soviets have the tendency to hide their cool stuffs and only reveal it as propaganda when western spies already found out what if the soviets actually use the laser tank to incinerate chinese soldiers as a test?

it is a fact that Chinese military at the time (during 60s-70s) treat laser weapon rather seriously, they assume energy based weapon will be in the field within the upcoming decades, in one of the PLA info book from 1978 titled ，they spend a whole episode of how to treat the eye damage and second degree skin burn. The weapon they referenced is the Gaylen Lyell Laser Rifle from 1964 featuring a possibly fictional ammunition for the laser round. Which is very bizzare.

​@@itsuk1_1If the Chinese were so serious in direct energy weapons then why hasn't the PLA created Lasguns yet?

@@imgvillasrc1608 i mean ZKZM-500 is pretty much the closest laser rifle we have to a lasgun. Most of the laser rifle around the world include other Chinese product are pretty much just blinding laser, while ZKZM-500 actually capable of burning human skin

​@@itsuk1_1this is actually the actual real China that the actual American and British BBC propaganda mainstream media actually don't show you is actually really like and actually capable of actually doing and damm

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lol, they dont show the us such things thats it. the deep state uses such things for assassinations.

@@Otto_M а может он будет и не против с учётом нынешних тенденций

@@TheFruitcake1983 )))

You seem to have forgotten about the Airborne laser Platform on a modified Boeing 747. Built to shoot down missiles. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-R2eehBk_DNQ.htmlfeature=shared

Yes!!!

Light a cigarette, blow smoke, stop laser, save eyeballs lolol

I can't see how that would be a problem: These laser systems were developed to disable (more or less permanently) enemy optics. Any fog, dust, smoke or tree coverage that would block the laser would also block the enemy optic systems making the laser not useless, but just unnecessary in that situation. Being line-of-sight only isn't really a drawback for your weapon if its intended target is also line-of-sight only.

@@qdaniele97 yes i agree however a lot of it's targets are not line of site dependent, such as anti radar missiles that lock on to a radar emission and follow it to the source.

Makes you appreciate Chroma Key

Please forgive his ignorance, but my friend hasno clue what you're saying. Could you elaborate to make it more clear for him?

@@michaelhowell2326 For that James Bond movie - Moonraker I'm pretty sure - they had to expose the film to light many times to get all of the different special effects onto it. Each time through the camera the cost of an error went up.

@@jimsvideos7201 so it's like if someone is developing photos in dark room with a red light, they just had to do incremental light adjustments? Sorry again for him being so dense, but I think he's getting it.

@@michaelhowell2326 You're getting there but this was before the developing stage. Consider this: If you were in a dark studio and took a picture of a person in the left side of the scene then took a picture of a different person on the right side (on the same piece of film, mind) tbh you'd have one picture of both people, but if person number 2 blinked you'd have to start again.

imagine how surprised you would be if you didnt study official history and instead found out what truly was happening

Yep

Yep, it will burn any kind of sensors. Including our Eyeballs.

Agreed

agreed x2

That tank was in GWT (Ground War Tanks) upd: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pxEOXKc2QMo.htmlsi=c00VYYXXnjYVMF3l

lol or DCS World

Might be non lethal but still op

Optics aren't just an armor in WT?

It's not even quite a coincidence, if you think about it-The artists making games about whimsical Cold War weapons and the engineers actually building whimsical Cold War weapons all grew up drinking from the same sci-fi punchbowl. Then as adults the former see an IRL device and think "ooh let's do our own one of those" while the latter see a fictional one and think "ooh could we really do one of those?" (Never mind that a lot of Red Alert was originally based around accounts of the Philadelphia Experiment, which while it _very likely_ didn't happen and is based on misunderstanding and misremembering of ship degaussing procedures with maybe a little senile confabulation thrown in, is at least _alleged_ to have been IRL technology. I'm skeptical but who knows what kind of crazy shit might be possible if you tickle the fabric of the universe just right?)

Another old game called State of War also had vehicles mounted with similar laser weapons. Don't know if it still runs on any modern PC's but it was also a good one.

Prism tanks??

It’s for destroying drones, not people

@@regalplays7135 Guess which task it'll actually be capable of, given the power available. Once it can catastrophically kill a drone in well under one second, I'll consider it capable of that task.

its not a warcrime if you win

Kinda related, but remember Boeing's Airborne Laser? IIRC they ended up using most of the original cargo space for the power supply.

Well our systems have gotten a lot "smarter" and have auto cut offs if the sensors are overwhelmed. But laser systems have advanced a lot and you can make one at home that can be pushed into the megawatt range.

​@StriderGIF Yeah that was a thing too, multi gigawatt laser that was built to be anti ICBM by burning a hole in its fuel tank.

Probably semi active/ active camo.

It may not be a secret, but they have already developed a laser defense system called peresvet, I am not sure if it works tho, hahaha.

russia?nah, they probably have a super high tech shovel in development or something.what the US or china for the matter is something i want to know, too

It's not really a secret. Peresvet, Kinzhal, Avangard, Poseidon, YaRS.

@@korana6308 You man that Kinzhal that got shot down recently?

unless you have a very good mirror aimed at the enemy

FWIW specialized ablative armor (e.g. aerogels) and chaff clouds might be able to buy you time to get to get back into cover or terrain-mask. But yeah if they have line of sight to you it would be an absolutely terrifying weapon to face, even if it _is_ far enough in the future they'd be able to regrow your retinas.

@@frogisis it's a terrible way to go. A bright light and then you don't exist anymore. Lots of people say they would love to go out like that. So quick it's painless. Not me. I'd even take some pain over just instantly not existing.

But orbital lasers are powered by handwaivium. 🤷‍♂️

KB Beriev is like a Skunk Works for Lockheed Martin, only much cooler.

shoop da whooooppp

do you think it really matters? Your country uses depleted uranium and tells its not a warcrime to do so ;)

The Chinese thought that. They even provided info to medical troops on how to treat laser burns. They were greatly worried by the technological edge the USSR had over them at the time. However, in that incident, hordes of the invading ChiCom soldiers were burnt by the newly developed BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher (incendiary loadout).

@@Henry_the_Eighth_ no kidding?? I never new there was a backstory to the rumors

@@krystianzyszczynski4115 Most "public rumors" do have certain basis aside from absolutely ridiculous urban legends. Yes, it was the Damansky incident, when the Chinese forces invaded Soviet territory unprovoked and attacked a border guards outpost. When it became clear that the outpost is practically destroyed, the Soviet commanders used the recently developed BM-21s to absolutely devastate the Damansky island. When the salvos were fired, the Chinese already had massive reinforcements arrive, so the troop saturation was very dense for such a small piece of land. The ensuing carnage taught them to stay on their side of the river, since most of their troops and armor were annihilated.

@@Henry_the_Eighth_ cool! I'm gonna tell me dad as I'm sure he will get a kick out of this

@@krystianzyszczynski4115 Glad to help. I guess, a mass salvo of rockets with their afterburner tails might look kinda like lasers, maybe that's where the legend originates.

as for energy, nuclear should do the job.lasers are much more cheaper than missiles.think the reason they aren't mainstream is cus its a pain to develop.

Or the prism tank from Red alert 2?

look at 0:28, you will notice the tank called “1K11 Stilet” looks almost exactly like the prism tank