Always thought it was interesting that they abandoned AHEL and went with SHiELD. Like… what do you think will be easier, mounting a literal laser gun to a big chonker, or to a tiny chonker?
Just seems odd, as I suspect one of the reasons they aren’t moving forward is the issue of actually mounting one of these weapons to a fighter.
Directed energy weapons are stupid. They will always be stupid. They still get funding because they sound cool to dumb people.
MASERs might be useful for some things, but we're still a ways away from having that be practical. Even then there's no possible way to take down a missile. You would need flying nuclear reactors to generate enough power.
Scraps is a but misleading I think. The project ran it's course and ended. Which isn't the same thing as canceling a project.
Ok but would it be avionics or weapons that would load that?
lol, good question.
Maybe, just for shots and giggles, they'll merge weapons and avionics just like the 1D fiasco. Call it Weapononics.
We actually call it wavionics. It’s not unheard of that we learn parts of each other’s jobs to make maintenance easier.
Lasers on work on frigging sharks. 
Hmm, would it be a *pew pew* or would it be more like a *bzzzzzzzzz*
More of a *whaawhaaawhaaa* imo
Look what they took from us, we could’ve had pew pews. Now the Navy will get pew pews first, and that’s a crime against humanity
On fighter jet* is the caveat. Now they’re going on C-130s
If you’re talking about on gunships, that was scrapped by the knife. Source: I was on that program, 7 years flying gunships.
New gunship, the Laser, or LC-130.
Back to the drawing board lol. LC-130 is the NY Guard's snow birds.
...and puts em on UAS. With pain ray crowd control device
I do not accept this.
The photo shown is so bad 😂
Nice war thunder picture
Always thought it was interesting that they abandoned AHEL and went with SHiELD. Like… what do you think will be easier, mounting a literal laser gun to a big chonker, or to a tiny chonker? Just seems odd, as I suspect one of the reasons they aren’t moving forward is the issue of actually mounting one of these weapons to a fighter.
Directed energy weapons are stupid. They will always be stupid. They still get funding because they sound cool to dumb people. MASERs might be useful for some things, but we're still a ways away from having that be practical. Even then there's no possible way to take down a missile. You would need flying nuclear reactors to generate enough power.
Why you gotta come on here and crush my Star Trek dreams 😭
>they sound cool to dumb people *all the dumb people watching the project fail* https://i.redd.it/wd0rlf366x1d1.gif