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2024-10-29 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Iron Beam bolstered: Israel expands laser defense with NIS two billion deal

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-10-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11157 views ] Top

#1 Police arrest truck driver and another passenger who were driving a vehicle with a rocket launcher that was taken as loot from Lebanon.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-10-29 04:19|| 2024-10-29 04:19|| Front Page Top

#2 The pricing of successful shootdowns shows a beam costs about $3.50 a successful shot, followed by CRAM at about $8250.00 then it jumps to the multi-hundred thousand then mid-10s of millions then tops out around 99 million per shot so this is a good choice

Posted by 3dc 2024-10-29 13:13|| 2024-10-29 13:13|| Front Page Top

#3 ^2
true the marginal cost of each shot is pretty low

however I think there will need to be a pretty dense network of beam stations along the border and/or protecting interior assets so the capital cost may end up pretty high, surely far above the 2B NIS

sometime in the future, a beam device mounted on a UAV could make the entire missile capacity of Iran uselss

Posted by Lord Garth 2024-10-29 14:07|| 2024-10-29 14:07|| Front Page Top

#4 In the late 70s an expensive beam weapon was proposed. No idea if it was ever tested.
It was a long tunnel with a mirror on one end and the other a 45 degree beam splitter. A nuclear bomb in the middle. The 45 degree aimed up with a tower with an aiming mirror. The idea was that it would make a laser beam that could be made when the bomb exploded and have about %0.1 of the bombs power in the beam...

Posted by 3dc 2024-10-29 20:14|| 2024-10-29 20:14|| Front Page Top

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