The defence secretary said the laser could be used to take down Russian drones as early as 2027.

Hilariously full of cope article from an irrelevant former power.

According to Grant Shapps, the weapon could have "huge ramifications" for the conflict in Europe.

Press X to Doubt.

The laser was originally expected to be operational by 2032… ….the defence secretary told reporters while on a visit to Porton Down military research centre near Salisbury that he wanted to speed this up even further. "Let's say that it didn't have to be 100% perfect in order for Ukrainians perhaps to get their hands on it," he said.

Very funny assessment of the readiness and efficacy of this Wunderwaffe.

Any suggestion that UK lasers could be sent to Ukraine to take out Russian drones is optimistic.

Ahh the admission in the article that the whole notion of uk made laser weapons being used in Ukraine is just a nato fantasy.

In the same vain I’m looking forward to future BBC articles about how the uk is sending a battle ready gundam to Ukraine next week

  • egg1918 [she/her]
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    9 months ago

    You got a link to somewhere I can read about those logging lasers? That sounds sick

    • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      I love lasers. There's times where I think I should have focused more on that and landed a job in the field. Also I'd love to have a laser harp!

      • WashedAnus [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        I'll be honest with you, working on lasers is tedious as fuck. Maybe the research side is cool, but the industrial side is really tedious.