South Korea is beginning the mass production of a low-cost laser weapon that has successfully shot down small drones during testing, the country’s key arms agency said Thursday.
South Korean military after the DPRK starts applying a mirror coating to drones: "Ahh. Well... Nevertheless."
Jokes aside, the real challenge will be cooling and targeting and fire rate. China has already got swarming drone attack munitions in service so it's less of a matter of how much it costs to down one drone and more of a matter of can this thing fire fast enough to down 10, 20, or 50 drones in a minute.
The South Korean defence industry is very interesting because its products are being treated as substitute goods for American/German/French weapons by 2nd tier NATO and vassal powers but all of them are essentially completely untested in any sort of conflict and who the fuck even knows how the supply chain from South Korea to (say) Poland will hold up in an actual conflict. I suspect that a lot of it is just NAFO types blindly cheerleading whatever tanks their side buys.
South Korean military after the DPRK starts applying a mirror coating to drones: "Ahh. Well... Nevertheless."
Jokes aside, the real challenge will be cooling and targeting and fire rate. China has already got swarming drone attack munitions in service so it's less of a matter of how much it costs to down one drone and more of a matter of can this thing fire fast enough to down 10, 20, or 50 drones in a minute.
The South Korean defence industry is very interesting because its products are being treated as substitute goods for American/German/French weapons by 2nd tier NATO and vassal powers but all of them are essentially completely untested in any sort of conflict and who the fuck even knows how the supply chain from South Korea to (say) Poland will hold up in an actual conflict. I suspect that a lot of it is just NAFO types blindly cheerleading whatever tanks their side buys.