Laser weapons are coming.

Above: Spaceborne mirrors aim laser beams from Ground-based lasers. (DoD image)

The latest laser technology is represented in the Chinese laser system. That man-portable laser. That fits in a backpack is the tool that could shoot down drones. This means that the laser weapons. They are entering the battlefields. The man-portable laser. It is so small and compact. It can be installed on the roof of trucks, tanks, or jeeps. The AI-based camera system. It can search for drones. And aim that system. Into the drones. The system. It can be used with the same technology. 

That is used in the laser-based mosquito hunting system. The laser-based mosquito trap killed eight mosquitoes in a second. A small-sized compact laser system that uses that technology can shoot down drones. The same system that eliminates pests. It can eliminate drones. If the user knows how to train that system to find drones. And  its laser systems are more powerful.  

The Israeli Trophy system is the rifle-calibre system. That shoots bullets against incoming anti-tank missiles. Those active protection systems are used in tanks and other vehicles. The laser-based version of that system. It can protect aircraft, tanks, and other targets. Against incoming missiles, rockets, and other ammunition. The high-power laser can also be used against enemy  vehicles and troops. 

The high-power laser. That is installed in the high-flying aircraft or drone. It can be used against hypersonic missiles. And satellites. The laser system. It must only cause a small amount of damage to the nose of a hypersonic missile. And that rips the missile or aircraft into pieces. The high-power laser systems are always dangerous. The laser system that drops drones can be installed in drones, helicopters, or even in strategic bombers. The high-precision lasers can also destroy things like incoming bombs and shells. 

Above: Artist's impression of truck-mounted 100kw laser systems. 

This system. It can destroy incoming missiles. And that kind of laser system. They can protect. The high-flying bombers against the anti-aircraft missiles. Those systems. They can be tools. That protects things. Like the jet fighters. B-52, B-1, B-2, and B-21  bombers, helicopters, ships, and other ground vehicles from incoming drones or missiles. The active denial system. Can increase the elder aircraft. And tanks' survivability on the battlefield. 

When we think about things like orbital laser platforms. That purpose. It is to destroy intercontinental ballistic missiles. Those lasers. They will turn. Into very large and complicated things. The solution to that problem. It can be a modular system. There, the laser will be launched into orbit in pieces. Those bites are like satellites. And they can dock with each other, forming a chain. Those satellite chains. They can be kilometers long. 

Another version is that. The rocket. It can launch mirrors into space. The mirror chain.  It can aim ground-based high-energy laser beams precisely at the desired point. In those systems. The laser is on the ground. And it shoots its beams to spaceborne mirrors. Using the relay mirror. The relay mirror on the side, where the beam comes out from those ultra-powerful, kilometers-long lasers. They can aim those beams into the orbital mirrors. The smaller lasers can be mounted in the telescope towers. In those cases. The smaller lasers. They can act as groups. 

The laser weapons are suitable for anti-aircraft systems. But their weakness is that they cannot fire things. Those are behind obstacles like houses or hills. The answer to that problem. It can be found from drones. The drone can carry the mirror. That aims a laser beam precisely at the wanted point. Those small mirror drones. They can aim laser beams over or around obstacles. But as we know. High-energy lasers can also be used to detonate explosives. When those high-energy laser beams hit things like drones. Those systems. They can pump. A lot of energy. Into targets. And if that energy detonates those drones. The detonation. It can be very powerful. And throw shrapnel around. 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophy_(countermeasure)

When legends meet: Laplace and Napoleon

Pierre-Simon Laplace
(1749-1829)
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When the mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace and Napoleon Bonaparte met the Emperor of France said, that there were no mentions of the god in Laplace’s papers. And the scientist answered that he didn’t need that calculation. I think that Napoleon was not interested in the god or mathematics when he met Laplace. The thing what interested this man, who became the figure of excellent tactician and military leader was something that was drawn in the papers of Laplace.



That thing was the points, what were drawn on those papers, and the way how Laplace could calculate them in the paper. If Simon Laplace could do the same thing for the artillery, French army will have the most lethal cannons on the battlefield. For many people, those points on the paper were nothing more than just the points. But as we must see, Napoleon saw those things by the different way, he saw a very effective way to use artillery.


Those calculations what made the finding of planet Neptune possible were known as the mechanics of heaven. The idea of the celestial mechanics was that Universum is a very stable place, where all particles move stable trajectories. This made possible that the movements of the particles can be calculated very sharply

The planets are found near the ballistical area of the sky, what is called as elliptical, and there is possible to calculate the point, where the planet will be fine with very good sharpness. Problem with the celestial mechanics is that will work only in the universe, there is no wind to disturb the planets, and if the conditions are the same kind in the Earth atmosphere than they are in the empty space, we could calculate every flight trajectory same way, what the astronomers used to calculate the points of Neptune.





 The thing is actually possible on the Earth if those calculations were involved more values, what will help in that calculation. First one is the side wind or the position where the wind comes, the second one is the temperature, the third one is the air pressure, fourth value is the humidity because the air what has particles will cause the changing of the ballistic situations. The sharpness of those calculations depends on how many vectors and values quantities could the mathematician involve the formula, what calculates the point, where the ballistic form ends, and those things were interested in Napoleon, who wanted to take the control all the Europe.



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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Simon_Laplace