If you could fly an F-16 close enough and stable enough to aim a laser at it to burn it up or scramble its guidence systems why not just shoot at it. Launch one of those heat seeking boys at it.
If the ones to be put on F-16's are really only strong enough to 'confuse' the missle and it needs to be lasered soon after leaving the launch site, than you would have to know where the launch site is and when the launch is, right? Why not fly by with a bigger plane and drop a few boomers on the pad seconds before the missles launch when the bays are open.
Scrambling a missle so you dont know where it will blow up shouldnt affect the crazy dune monkeys shooting 'em. I saw pictures of one of Sadams atempts at a launch sight, it looked like a roller coaster that went up the side of a hill and cut off. Do you think he cares how well aimed his missles? Im sure he'll fire them with or without guidence as long as it goes BOOM!
Someone said something about how lasers will be able to stop a mirrored missle using the 10% of energy that is absorbed to melt and destory the missle, what happens to that other 90% that is reflected? Isnt that a bit dangerous?
The only thing lasers are good for is video games!
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If you could fly an F-16 close enough and stable enough to aim a laser at it to burn it up or scramble its guidence systems why not just shoot at it. Launch one of those heat seeking boys at it.
If the ones to be put on F-16's are really only strong enough to 'confuse' the missle and it needs to be lasered soon after leaving the launch site, than you would have to know where the launch site is and when the launch is, right? Why not fly by with a bigger plane and drop a few boomers on the pad seconds before the missles launch when the bays are open.
Scrambling a missle so you dont know where it will blow up shouldnt affect the crazy dune monkeys shooting 'em. I saw pictures of one of Sadams atempts at a launch sight, it looked like a roller coaster that went up the side of a hill and cut off. Do you think he cares how well aimed his missles? Im sure he'll fire them with or without guidence as long as it goes BOOM!
Someone said something about how lasers will be able to stop a mirrored missle using the 10% of energy that is absorbed to melt and destory the missle, what happens to that other 90% that is reflected? Isnt that a bit dangerous?
The only thing lasers are good for is video games!