New UK laser could destroy Putin’s drones | Hamish de Bretton-Gordon
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- “It’s a very small laser you can mount at a tank that can fire at multiple drones for a tiny cost.”
New UK lasers “can destroy” Russian tanks and drones as Putin struggles to maintain “the capability to continue fighting”, says Hamish de Bretton Gordon.
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You giving us hope
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A freakin laser on the head of a shark.....
Battery powered l assume. 🤔😂
I was thinking the same thing - especially with the Austin Powers' reference.
@@jankwartel1860 nuclear. Tiny freakin nuclear power plant.
Why am I surrounded by friking idiots
Dragonfire is a pretty cool name, ngl.
The British always name things well.
British weapon names have the best names. Dragonfire, Storm Shadow, Brimstone, Typhoon etc.
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Pretty cool names don't always mean pretty effective things....
British Forces News on TH-cam a few weeks ago published two videos on the Dragon Fire laser system. It's accurate enough to hit a £1 coin at a kilometre away, yes the development of the weapon was costly but it's estimated that it costs approximately £1.00 per shot.
I've been hearing £10 per shot.
@@plowe6751
It is not that powerful.
@@plowe6751
Wow.
I think you are correct……
Like the Challenger, right? That appeared, received a missile on board and never appears on the battlefield again. 😂
@@plowe6751 he said it has a range of 1 kilometer
Its getting more and more like Terminator every year and everything that was a toy can be used as a weapon.
This is what I was thinking
What's next, teddy bear robot fighters?
@@sharpvidtube Killer dragon fly drones!
This laser has been tested and is now 95% ready for commissioning to the British Armed Forces.
Brilliant News 👌😏 Maybe this laser can go around Britain and fix all the Potholes
@@GeneralMilosivic-db9io HIMARS Harris will like to see it after she gets elected president.
@@robbiekop7 Why do people feel the need to be silly? It reminds me of watching young children pretending to be adults.
I'm being called silly when there's a guy saying HIMARS Harris ....I'm not the one that's Warmongering. I want what's best for the average U.K. Person
@@robbiekop7 Not a frivolous proposition.
A lorry with depression mounted sensors - upon sensing a pothole the laser cuts a rectangle, scoops the debris and deposits a measured amount of tarmac - job done!
Thanks as always Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon for this clear and easy to follow analysis. English is a second language to me. Air defense is the key.
I agree if a weapon is 80% get it out their then improve and innovate ,
Brilliant analysis as usual from Mr. de Bretton-Gordon .
The chap does not mention mines? Clearing them has been hard, one cheap mine takes out a mega expensive tank, plastic bodied now so hard to detect.
Actually you just use thermal imager to detect the mine now, as PLASTIC IS ITS WEAKNESS
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 ♥️ ❤️. Keep the conversation going.
Lasers ‘ could ‘ ……. I don’t like that word, ‘ very soon will’ …. that’s more like it!
The U.K. can't even get an Aircraft Carrier out of Dry Dock to operate on the Sea 🌊
@@robbiekop7 Russia's single aircraft carrier spends more time on fire in dry dock than it does at sea. On rare occasions when it does make it to sea it needs a tugboat to push it around.
Surely a Tug boat pulls things around hence the name *Tug*
I think the Ukrainians could use *blinding* lasers right now,which could fry the Russian drone cameras,rendering them useless. Not to be used against Russian troops,which would be against the Geneva Conventions.
Rheinmetall has demonstrated a laser against drones eight years ago.
DEPLOY IT NOW !
They sound like they would be useful defending cities.
This man knows his stuff
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I like the idea of simply hearing the answer to a eliminated questioner. Less distracting and good to hear the the bare facts.
I've been hearing and reading about this dragonfly laser for quite a while now. I'm beginning to think it's like much of technology today, talked up to line up the buyers, but far from ready for practical use. Dragonfly is far from the only laser weapon attempted in the past. None are ready for practical use. I do hope dragonfly works. I just don't trust the salespeople in the military industrial complex to speak anything remotely relating to the truth
surely, Israel has it Iron Dome, and this is laser, and it works
dragonfire* not dragonfly
Two things that are critical now. Where are the F-16's that Ukraine has been promised? The Netherlands stated the export certificates had been approved weeks ago. Why have they not been delivered? Is this more meddling by the current Biden administration and their "escalation management" policy?
And, how many more hospitals, schools, shopping centers and playgrounds must be hit before they lift restrictions on long range precision fires into russia?
The first batch has already been delivered from Denmark, but there's probably a lot of secrecy about when and where, in general.
Send it
What Ukraine needs is artillery, artillery and artillery. Also drone jamming technology and air more defence systems. No need for space lasers.
How about a net with 4 small rockets at the corners so when it's fired the net expands then wraps around drone making unable to fly
Ukrainian offensive was also seriously blunted by well constructed defensive lines, and, importantly minefields - not just drones.
True, but it's obviously population centres and infrastructure that the weapon would be protecting. They'd never take it on offensives or front lines. If you can half civilian deaths and protect vital infrastructure then it's just a stalemate given no side is really gaining at the moment
Wise words. 😊
Where are the F16s?????
Gordon of Kartoomski, a brave warrior to the last ....
Not just lasers...
Ukraine could be VERY cheaply supplied with small General Aviation aircraft, your typical trainer (Cessna C172, Beech Bonanza and Baron, Yak 52, etc.) or a step above that, Turboprop Counter Insurgency Aircraft (EMB Tucano or Pilatus PC9). Or any aircraft with Aerobatics capability.
Drones are, for the forseeable future... and very certainly for the duration of this war, incapable of Dogfighting.
Drones are expendable at no risk to the operator. Small aircraft are not the answer, pilots are not expendable. Except in Russia.
@@tikaanipippin : Small aircraft are certainly not a silver bullet... but they are part of the answer.
Why? Because, unlike those drones, human flown aircraft can engage in dogfights.
And the point of them is not to operate them at the frontlines, but in the rear, around sensitive objects... and most importantly outside of the range of the enemy's anti air systems.
This way, the risk to human pilots is minimal, while their effect on slow to manoeuvre drones is devastating.
And when you equip drones with counter measures, they lose range and become prohibitively expensive.
Of course, there's always a risk, but such is war. The way, Ukraine currently employs the Yak-52 is an effective and moderately safe way of dealing with drones that target objects in the rear.
When a leader goes to war their kids should be on the front line for the duration.
The largest landowner where I live lost all three sons in WW2 and as a consequence they funded a bomber and gave it to the RAF to reply. The British send their best. God Save the King.
I understand that Putin’s daughter is safe and well in Weybridge, England .
How are their kids responsible for their politics?
You sound like from the middle ages or an arab country.
@@honkytonk4465 I get your point. I suppose what I'm saying is 'they' are happy fighting wars with other people's kids lives. So my question is what have everyone else's kids done to deserve being used in a meat grinder for some leaders war who doesn't care about them? If they truly believe in a war enough to sacrifice kids of the nation their own would also be included? If not why not?
Does NOT discussing proposed 'military tactics' on a publicly available forum
go completely AGAINST all concepts of secrecy about tactical advantage? 🤨
You would have to emphasise alternator maintenance on vehicles but would be very useful
Perhaps the REAL challenge would be preventing this new weapon quickly falling into Russia's hands.
It would be city based not at the front lines.
@@Greg29 Yeah if you can stop civilian deaths and damage to power stations and other infrastructure then it's kinda game over for the orcs.
@@Greg29 he said the will be on armored vehicles
I don't think it would be a big deal. The Russians could easily copy them except they can't get their hands on the chips and bits and pieces that they require to make them. The sanctions are working.
Maybe the Chinese have got it already
Drones and shoulder held missile launchers have changed warfare so far, but I was waiting for someone to come up with a defense. If it works, it will help possibly neutralize them.
Provide it with Ukraine for purpose of defense
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon is on Target: timing is everything!
Those lives were lost to Russia and Ukraine, sons, brothers, fathers, husbands, and uncles-all young, with lives ahead of them, and now wasted. There has to be a better way.
There is. It's called "Ruzzia withdraws from Ukraine."
It's called the orcraine stops committing genocide and returns Russian territory back to Russia.
@@GeneralWinter9 It is called evil.
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Lasers are the answer but aiming them and concentrating enough energy at a single point is the complication, it is after all light (or maybe higher energy EMR), subject to all sorts of refraction anomalies. I have read even a strong wind can affect laser effectiveness by changing air density, so you can imagine what temperature gradients would do to training the device onto a very small moving target.
I reckon the people developing this have probably considered these issues. If you can only use them in ideal conditions, then so be it, in ideal conditions they will be great.
@@jonm7272 I'm sure they have and I guess this is one of the major deployment issues. Even high velocity tank guns suffer from similar problems - Challenger 2 has a small weather station on its turret to correct for temperature etc and that's firing a very dense AP shot, imagine a load of massless photons bouncing around every which-way.
there are two techniques to sort this out, combined together they provide great result. I suppose its more due to buerocracy, rather than tech stuff
Get some huge space mirrors up and we can play laser Snooker.
Well install it on the Danube Delta in Romania already, and eat some good & fresh fish dishes while there.
I appreciate your insights very much, thank you.
Thanks!
the Tempest will be the new TSR2 scandal
Right out of 'Hammer 's Slammers'
It's absurd that all the combined European nations can't match Russia's war effort. How hard are they trying?
That's what happens when you rely on america for your defense instead of spending money on your own army...serves them right
Russia is using old soviet stocks and North Korean garbage. Russia is sending T55's , golf carts , battle mopeds.
The only thing they DID NOT try -- was total mobilization. Are you ready??
How is Russias three day military invasion of Ukraine going. Russia cannot even win in Ukraine. European Military are not lifting one finger. Russia is being supplied by Iran North Korea and China and buying back Soviet weapons from third World Countries. Tanks from the sixties are now being used by the Russians in Ukraine. Russian Army second best in Ukraine!
Going forward: joint app dev with UK/UKR?
I thought lasers were the answer as well until I heard the CEO of Plantair say they can be defeated with a pie tin
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This terrible war in Ukraine is also enabling NATO and partners to try and test ,tweak, fine tune the latest weaponry including new radars in a real combat situation is priceless for the inventors of these super weapons .
ONLY 600 THOUSAND? that's nothing, it's a flesh wound!
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Hi, so hope you are correct
this is an advert to the brittish public to accept lots of "defence spending"
A couple of pounds for a cup of tea?
Where does Hamish buy his tea?
Not at the local greasy cafe
Yes, you can pay more nowadays. £3 isn't unusual in a café.
@@DisleyDavid The proles prefer the greasy caf
There is already a counter measure to laser. when laser hits target a smoke screen is deployed with drone evasive maneuvering. The auto defense systems will make it harder and longer to destroy drones. Another counter measure is pop out mirrors. With pop out mirrors and evasive maneuvers it will be hard to destroy drones.
laser penetrates this fog easy, and if drone moves, fog stays far away, and the laser will follow and shoot continuously, with no stop. I suppose, you never tried 30 kw laser to burn something. it just melts bricks and fire plastics in second. carbon burns out and destroys in 3-5 seconds as well, leaving no structural force left
Stop calling Trump a president
The Laser could used as a distance tool to spot other targets on the ground , given the distance to the main gun.
New weapons for Ukraine have been delivered new laser weapons that can destroy a pin head in the sky have been given to Ukraine to destroy aircraft and drones from Russia these new weapons make it totally impossible for anything to get though . Within days these weapons will be on the front line .
Hopefully UK's Ministry of Defence can do a lot better than their Aussie proteges. It took the Aust. Defence Force more than 3 years to approve (this month) a fix for a minor problem with the ABS braking system on Thales new Hawkei personnel carrier, with 1,100 units laid up waiting for a box to be ticked. Well done Aussies... a force to be reckoned with!
And I thought it was clever scientists in Scotland. Interesting talk but lasers have line of sight limitations and the line points exactly back to the source so there needs to be mobility in the mix.
too good to be true
A fast laser would be able to make many attempts at a missile or drone if it missed I'm sure it could refire fast ..
Lasers can't lock onto flying drones hidden among trees.
How do you fly a drone among trees without hitting a tree? have you thought this through?
Have they not tried drone shield from Australia? It's being used in the USA etc
Why haven't they tried nets shot out of something like smoke canister ejector in tandem with motion detector? Multiple canisters could be mounted on sensitive areas.
They have tried nets. Not really a viable alternative to this laser.
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This is a war where we tell the enemy what we are going to do? I am confused by this.
So many really important issues at the moment other than wars, why doesn't humanity grow up?
Prosperity lies in sharing and working together, world leaders are endangering our future.
This guy is switched on , bring on the layers.
Russia using lasers almost for decades....
Most major nations have used lasers. This is a different use/kind.
What you fail to mention is how many soldiers ukraine has lost..ukraine can't continue for another 2 years because they are lacking manpower...you can bet ukraine has lost as many soldiers as russia has..
Not really because the Ukrainians use slightly different tactics, next go back and look at the Vietnam war between my country the US and the North Vietnamese, they held up for a decade against massive fire power from the US military, the Ukrainians can continue to inflict heavy losses on the Russian war machine if the west allows it!
I agree about Russia not sustaining these numbers, but what about Ukarine!!!!
Why broadcast our future weapons. Let the enemy find out the hard way
Per shot might be cheap, but what is the cost of the carrier weapon and would a small vehicle have enough power for that weapon? The Yanks wanted to put a Rail Gun on a Tank, simply not enough energy without a nucler generator.
The system has cost 100 Million Pounds already, sounds good though!
*batteries not included
10:02"... The Russians are even dropping chemical weapons from their drones..." :/
Yes, reports of CS gas being dropped on Ukrainian troops.
:/ indeed, it's sad to see both sides sinking to such ww1 tactics
@@mrsubject1 "both sides"? 🧐
@@mrsubject1 sure Vlad
@@Cassp0nk lol I thought it was common knowledge that both sides have used chemical warfare because of how bad its gotten but alright guess im a russian bot
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If lasers can take down drones and missiles, they can also be used as weapons?
What happens if they make the drones shiny?
The drones will then be shot down .) nothing changes. The laser doesn't care. Mirrors won't work either.
Yes and playing with my gubor.
but USA already has a laser twice as powerful
could work for mine clearance as well?
I am interested in how the lasers will be used against infantry. Shave and a haircut, 2 bits?
Removal of tattoos
Well if it was developed for human at the right Freq and power it might be able to carve through them, seen those videos of lasers cutting metal pieces out of a large sheet metal?
Is this where the copium is distributed? I like the lasers every 10 years the lasers come back to prove they are not as advertised.
Is the laser plasma adaptable.
Why don't we use lasers as weapons?
Laser weapon - Wikipedia
One of the major issues with laser weapons is atmospheric thermal blooming, which is still largely unsolved. This issue is exacerbated when there is fog, smoke, dust, rain, snow, smog, foam, or purposely dispersed obscurant chemicals present.
Silver drones = useless laser.
Depends on range. Thankfully drones fly low and are easy targets so eventually they would have to become a target unless it was extremely bad fog or rain. They'd be detected by radar in any weather and the laser could destroy them rapidly when in effective range. They might not be great in all situations but for stopping drones hitting cities and power stations, they'd be awesome.
@@CrazyTechLab And a silver drone?
@@petewright4640 It would not reflect enough to survive. You'd need a perfect mirror free of blemishes to reflect enough of the laser to avoid being melted. Any angles or joins or any material that wasn't a mirror would be melted. Take a look at the current Iranian drones. There's no way you could make them a perfect mirror. It's not like pointing a laser pen at it. It's massively more powerful so any part of the drone that isn't a perfect mirror would absorb the laser and vaporise.
you are right, silver mirror is hard to make perfect on plastic or metal, it will be absorbing a lot of radiation and burn. the only way - make the body of polished silver or gold, but that is insane weight
could the laser engage a glide bomb
There was a photograph in the _Metro_ paper (2024-07-24) showing a mortar shell with a hole burned through it by DragonFire.
Millions millions of pounds spent on laser weapons for nothing, when the Russians would probably come up with a coating wraped drone in blocking polycarbonate problem solved
Is this laser effort doing any good at sensor work. Can tank get un and out faster.
Can these lasers target and take out gliding bombs?
Yes they can
Wishful thinking
12:06 before need RADAR capable to see a zala drone
Britain can't afford to take risks. If we go forward with our own next gen jet and it doesn't work we've wasted billions. Until we are in better financial shape we can buy next gen jets etc off the Americans.
@@amartin3893 Why don't you write a letter to your MP about your concern?
@@boink800 It's not a concern, just an opinion. If the UK next gen jet is cancelled then I think that's sensible. As long as we still buy next gen jets off the Americans. They take all the risks developing the aircraft and testing it. We just buy the finished the product.
"Risk" & "Civil Servant" is an oxymoron
Very sorry for the people of
Russia.
Their leaders are so rich ..their husbands and sons are away at war.andthey can't afford bread.....
Criminal Putin is to blame. He alone holds Russia in his grip. ?. Shame upon those who support Criminal Putin, most of the world DO NOT!!!
I wish someone would ask Hamish de Bretton-Gordon whether or not it wouldn't it be better if the Ukraine remained a permanent belligerent to Russia. As long as Russia knows that they could always be on the receiving end of cruise missiles, etc., glide bombs, etc., the Russians would realize they would be better off staying in their own driveway. And at the end of the war, won't the Ukraine military be the most advanced, trained, fighting force on the planet?
Can lasers be deflected by means of something akin to tin foil?
@@Flexiblesteel1 Hence, the tin foil hat
Its posts like these that argue the thought "not everyone needs to be heard".
@@mgarner845 stop taking yourself so seriously. You'll live a happier life
@@Flexiblesteel1 We like our tin foil hats
@@mgarner845Its a serious point which is one of the major shortcomings of possible laser weapons. They deliver energy to the target in the form of light. Light can be reflected e.g. tin foil.
Hey Hamish, anything from the Spanish military officer who said 18 SAS were liquidated and 25 more injured in Odessa.
He's back in the psychiatric hospital that he escaped from.
Do worry,he's doing really well now!🤗
@@paulross225 those guys wont be coming back though.
@@shaun1463 What guys?! There are and never were SAS in Odessa!
@@paulross225 not according to the orbituaries
@@shaun1463 What obituaries?
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He said ruzzians are dropping chemical weapons from drones.
1) I hadn't hear of that. Is there evidence?
2) If so, the line has been crossed and ALL bets are off.
There are reports of them using CS (tear) gas which as it's heavier than air seeps into the trenches
@@evilaquaman that means Ukraine can use it I would think.
@@billytheweaselNo, it does not.
Ruzzia's gone so crazy that they're committing innumerable War Crimes against their own Troops!!-😨