American reacts to CRAZY British Military Weapon (Laser beam)
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The "£" is a pound sign, € is the euro sign. They do look similar a glance, but are different.
Yanks never know that.. I got MxrPlays talking about euros non stop last year even though it was all pound sterling.. And at that time both the pound and the dollar was high compared to the euro so a lot of false prices was made up. Things was way more expensive as they thought. There even was a period where the dollar was higher than the pound but thats flipped again.. Dollar has dropped a lot lately. Its around 7 danish kroner now. It was almost 10 in 2022 and 2023. I wonder of its because Trump told us he'll run again.. That would upset any economy. 😎
Awesome, Greetings from Helsinki, Finland🇫🇮🇬🇧🇺🇸
The U.K. had lasers fitted to warships during the Falklands War HMS Broadsword being one of them. They were mainly dazzling type rather then a damaging weapon
Looks like these are AA guns for defense against incoming missiles and planes, good work Britain
It's mostly an adjustment for drones and other low-cost projectiles and loitering munitions.
It simply isn't cost-effective to shoot £100,000 defensive missiles to destroy £2,000 drones. So now we have lasers.
Do not underestimate the British. They invented both the steam engine and the radar. And fish and chips. 👍
That's right, they even invented gravity. 💪😅
Shhhhh 🤫.... Let them underestimate us all they want 😉
And television., the telephone, the world wide web and Tennents Super lager.
The safety bicycle, pneumatic tires, tool steel and custard creams 😂
the belgians invented fries/chips
Britain invented radar in the 2nd world war, and the German code breaking machine enigma, also the first vertical take-off landing Fast jet ,the Harrier . Amongst many other things. The latest being the killer laser..
I’m British but the USA had a laser weapon many years before us
1, lasers - the USAF had a chemically powered anti missile laser in a 747 back about 20 years ago, but it never got past the prototype, it used up its fuel too fast and had too small a useful range. You had to get the plane near the missile first.
2, The Sun? Definitely not small 😂. A large national newspaper here, definitely low-brow, for many years mainly known for always putting a photo of a topless young woman on page 3.
He says that about every YT channel
No 2 - that was an Australian Invention! Cheers Rupert! 😊🤔
😊 A "Page_3_" 'girl' could introduce the hobby of 'ornithology' to 'any (older?!) young lad' - as an outer 'covering' camouflage device to 'disguise' his inner paper which reveals a 'bird' (maybe a pair of Blue Tits🐦🐦?!) - of a different plumage, so to speak?! 😊😅😂🏴😳🇬🇧🤔❤️🙂🖖
The Sun is literally the Fox news in the UK, same owner
@@jenniferharrison8915 Australians are pure British my man
The Sun is a uk news paper , Not a very good one
Name ANY good one!
The UK has loads of cool military hardware. We gave loads of it to the Ukraine's too.
And Historically, we've always helped the US out, by giving them our advanced military Tech, for the USA to mass produce and sell back to us.
i am form britain we invent cool shit too ya know :) estimates range the laser weapon from 50Kilawatt W possible 45 your average laser pointer is around 10milliwatt for context
It's a solid-state laser weapon in the 50-kW range based on doped glass fiber bundles running into a British-designed beam-combining system that's still very much on the classified list.
It makes you wonder, what's still classified!
Time to build a Death Star
Are we bringing back the empire?
@@daveffs1935For the Empire
You're assuming we aren't already? Mwah..ha..hahh
HMS Death Star
well you can be sure British health and safety will at least insist on a railing for that guard that stands next to the beam.
It reminds me that when Robert Watson-Watt developed Radar in the 1930s, he had actually originally been asked to investigate the possibility of a "Death Ray"!
What’s kinda crazy is that from the movie, Mortal Engines, London has a weapon call ‘The Medusa’ that also fires a purple laser… coincidence?
I think NOT!
Because ultra violet lasers are the most powerful?
@@yedead1 i believe its less to do with outright power and more to do with how much different types of laser are diminished by passing through the atmosphere, which has traditionally been the Achilles heel of this technology
@@Simon-hb9rf I meant it as in the shorter the wavelength the greater energy output, so yes I agree with your comment.
0:13 🤣🤣🤣
"Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to my submarine lair. It's long, hard, and full of seamen!” Dr. Evil
NATO is strong even without nuclear weapons. It's nice to know that article 5 binds us all together! We all know about the one for all and all for one policy. That video was great, good job Ryan !
Briten was the big daddy before America was Born
The typo in the first word 😅😅 Sorry, it's not about you, I just love what you wrote. 😂😂
@@Alltagundso not really a typo. It's just the way it's written in German. And sometimes I mix up German and English words when they are so similar. (I am a Kraut)
@@DieGurke_ I got that. 😁
@@DieGurke_
Großbritannien.
@@DieGurke_I'm half German and English [born in Germany] and never heard Germans say 'Briten'.
The American Navy have a ship mounted system on test. I worked on early iterations of our systems in the 90s.
I saw a small news article sbout 2 weeks ago. Allegedly the marine Corp are getting a delivery of truck mounted prototypes
About what your saying around 6mins, the point is that it is to take down small drones, as we've seen in the war in Ukraine, cheap drones are being used to blow up millions of £/$/€ in military equipment. One of the main takeaways of this war is the huge usage of small drones and how expensive it is to shoot down a $50 drone with a $50,000 missile etc.
Larger targets will just be destroyed with conventional weapons like missiles or artillery.
He talked over the drone part as usual so he completely missed the point. As usual
A couple of things that were not mentioned in the video which I wish they would have explained
1. Although lasers can travel at light speed they do not destroy things instantaneously. They need to heat up the target area to penetrate it. Depending on the laser's power and the armouring of the target this might take a while, meaning that drones and lightly armoured targets are ideal for now. I guess the power of the laser is classified information
2. Fighters tend to have heavier armouring than drones and I believe most have some countermeasures to lasers as laser targeting is very common these days. I wonder if they can counter this and if the heavier armouring means that the laser needs to stay on target for longer?
3. I wonder if stealth aircraft relying on radar absorbing materials would be more susceptible for laser as they absorb the energy or if they would be better as they are designed to spread the energy on a larger area?
By the way most modern fighters have little to no armour
In 2001 I was invited to a future technology’s exhibition for the UK’s military weapons, what stood out to me….before entering a huge 1/4 mile long warehouse we all had our iris’s scanned and had to enter our names. On entering the warehouse individually we were instructed to look towards the far end of the facility. 1/4 of a mile away was a camera that controlled by AI could focus in on our iris’s and identify whom each one of us was! This was in 2001! The commander explained that the technology shared today and always had already been in use for 5 years or more so you can’t imagine the technology they already use which we don’t know about!!!
damage to a human would be permanent blindless, second degree burns possible third, clothes and hair would catch fire, heat of the infrared beam would most likely heat up water in human body causing heatstroke and fluids to boil in seconds
*USA has its own LASER project*
The impression I get is that the USA one is:
○ Bigger
○ More powervull(?)
○ More expensive
○ Powered by a British Rolls Royce generator due to required power density
○ Even longer to develope
I feel like this guy actually has inside friends sharing top secret military tech😂😂😂
Yup. Someone who does would publicly deny it, so that makes it confirmed.
Logic!
i dont know how good it is against mirror coated objects
Next step in the arms race - disco ball drones?
Being shiny helps but far less than you might think. Much of the damaging energy is not in the visible spectrum so you need materials that are reflective to the actual frequency of the laser to do much good. Even then the underlying substrate will still heat to catastrophic levels very quickly.
Some aliens might show up like angry neighbours, saying "hey! Watch where you shoot that thing! You scratched the paintwork on my flying saucer!" 😂
The military is 40 years ahead of this if we're just finding out.
Doesn't seem like it in Russia and Ukraine. Or where are the laser guns there?
£8.87 per shot (excluding cost of device and development). there are 3 types in development but don't expect Star Wars. Energy demands for lasers are massive but they can be defeated by smoke, mist, fog, sand and just about anything that is in the air in particulate form.
Several of my friends regularly play with lasers as part of their job. They're university researchers in laser & plasma welding technology.
It's not 140 million Euro but 140 million GB Pound. I wouldn't be concerned about hitting the moon but you might accidentally take out a satellite in low earth orbit.
no biggie 🤣
Pounds NOT euros damn you!
Don't confuse him
Imagine frying someone inside an armoured vehicle... Tank, plane ship
i worked on an R&D project through the 90's - it was to put AI in the cockpit to help the pilot during their mission - the US had its Pilot's Associate (PA) with 400 researchers and the UK had its own, known as the Mission Management Aid (MMA) with only 40 researchers - we did a number of show and tell demo's between the 2 countries - i remember hearing many from the US saying how could the UK in a number of critical situations be so far ahead - they did not believe our claims, so we gave them a full demo and they where openly amazed at what they saw - their demo was all vector graphics and high altitudes, whilst ours was graphical and at low level - theirs was CAP based with engagements, whilst ours was threading the needle for deep penetration missions - another demo, they did not believe out Tac Routing, asking to interact with the demo by placing different laydowns
one of the biggest differences was the UK could give authority to the AI to fly the mission with little pilot interaction (a pre-cursor to the up coming Unmanned future), with pilots acting as the final authority on all actions planned
after a number of these demo's, the US asked to embed an officer in our group - it was refused as we play differently than that of the US (they fly at 5000m alt, whilst we fly at 19+, alt - the US flys with packages of 10+, whilst we at most fly with 3-to-4)
we had a spin off project for land based recon and future MBTs - the US tried to again embed officers - which was refused - so the US, like on the MMA, approached individuals and offered them significant pay-rises and other options, all way beyond anything that the UK would offer - some went to work for NASA - no green card issues
another spin-off project was known as 'Norm-Pilots' based on a game tech known as Creatures using an amazing AI approach - many pilots i meet said the could easily beat the avators in head to head enegagements, but as more pilots went through the process, the AI got better, learnt the pilots tactics and after almost a year were better than most pilots - then the project turned off human toloreances (greater than sustained 9G turns) and it beat all pilots everytime - Lockheed bought the tech from the Games company
so whilst the US has vast amounts of cash even they admit they are not masters of every tech - what they have is the attention span to see beyond many projects limitations to new uses and to try out very novel ideas - this is their biggest advantage
They released test footage of it destroying mortar rounds. This is meant for close-in defence against drones, missiles, and artilery. It's currently very difficult to deal with drone swarms because of how cheap the targets are vs a traditional interceptor missile.
It would be almost impossible to dodge, because it travels at light speed!
Unless of course you have a mirror with you!
@@TicketyBoo. no, it fires superheated light glass would melt before it reflected
@@seanbarker4610 no, the light is regular temperature, there is just a lot of it.
Now check out Gravity Industries, a company founded by an ex-Royal Marine to produce personal jet packs, currently being tested and assessed by several countries armed forces.
the vid shows an interesting concept, the laser is on the side of the ship within the structure of the ship - from this you see multiples of these weapon solutions being placed over a ship, even with multiple solutions overlapping each other - so you could fire multiple beams at the same target, thus increasing the time to effect on that in-coming offensive weapon on that ship
now put this laser on multiple ships in a fleet (5-to-8 ships + many more than on a normal ship on the a/c carrier) - now you can dozens of beams being used on possibly multiple targets simulatanouesly - all for the cost of £10 a shot per laser instead of hundreds of thousands of £ a shot - an absolute game changer
the only little issue being range and weather - lasers have an issue when there is large amount of moisture in the air (heat from the laser gets lost in heating up water) and distance (again energy lost in moving further air)
Lasers meh, sonic weapons that's the way forward.....Britain has them too muhaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaa.
you're actually aware that lasers and sonic weapons aim towards different tasks and purposes?
Garlic Bread, that's the future
Now we just need some storm troopers to miss things with it. 😂
They will only have declassified this if they have a much more advanced/powerful/mobile system since then
For now the intended targets are indeed drones - they have quickly become a serious threat on the battlefield so there needed to be a reliable counter.
a LONG DISTANCE laser gun for you
The accuracy is actually not that unbelivable, there are a lot of gadgets that can pull that of. On a heavy weapon, mounted on a moving ship, it's quite remarkable though...
I'll be more impressed if they finally manage to mount a functioning railgun on a nuclear battleship.
Jolly Good. You guys have been building the space fleet of black triangles, we've been doing the lasers then, obviously.
Enjoy your response and your thoughts and arguments on point. Remember there is a difference between the American and British mile
We got drones they say ,we say ok let us introduce us to our little friend friend here
This is crazy, like a lightning bolt shooting in a perfect straight line up in the sky, but is the "accuracy on a coin" meant towards stationary targets or moving targets like jet planes?
Please lift the audio level when recording.It's -16 db.Way too quiet.
everybody in UK gangsta till i show up with a mirror
2017 US already had active laser weapons demonstrating it with the destruction of a water vessel. 2020 downing a drone with 150KW version.
'It's just taken down a drone' you say. Yet the military are worrying about it hitting outer space!
You know that if they have released this much information then the project is much more ready to use at great potential, its not just at early stages. This is enough to let potential enemies know that we can deal with any threat, this weapon can handle it. Of course certain technologies will be available to friends & allies of the UK, at a cost .
If Britain wanted to build the first star ship like in Star Trek, they already got the phasers ready, now all we need are the photon torpedo's which they are probably already working on too right now. The British Empire Strikes Back.
The US and others have been developing laser weapons before. But they are not suitable to destroy big targets from a long range. (more than 2-5 miles away)
Now with the new threat of drones, lasers have become useful again in the damage per dollar game.
It hit a "tethered" target.
It hit a drone. (How many times did it miss?)
Another "release" of information. (One still photo.)
Pay attention to the language.
Okay, next is reflective drones and random fires everywhere and many blinded people.
Us actually had their prototypes already years ago. I think they were cancelled but new interest has been found in them lately.
America has lazer weapons, but this is a diferent lazer, more focused, more powerful, more manouverable, cheeper, more accurate, but i think America could make a better one, all depends if they can do it cheeper, maybe get parts from ali baba?
Oh Ryan. The Sun is a major British Newspaper and Media Outlet, equally famous and infamous. I'm not even a Brit myself but of course I would know about it. I seriously need to ask you Mid-Western American folks under which rock you have lived your life up until now? Your level of general knowledge is rather ... low? poor? questionable? Sorry for being so blunt, but that's usually how we are in Europe. No beating around the bush for the sake of being polite when politeness surely is not applicable.
Well Ryan, 007 Bond did warn you, you just didn't pay attention.
The British, are back
Euro? Nah we voted not to have that currency forced upon us mate
"Shipping Boat" give him another 500,000 years and he just might be able to grunt.
'shipping boat' Opposed to a ship is brilliant 😅 well they do say EYE glasses and HORSE back riding so i guess shipping boat fits the bill🤷🏼♂️
@@pem...Stupidity knows no bounds with this one, I'd like to say that it's an act, but it happens too often for it to be by chance.
These reaction videos are basically unedited steam of consciousness. What are you expecting, a refined and edited script from many takes?
There is a laser gun for the F35 stuck in development I think.
And what happens if the drone is covered in mirrors.....does it come back
to hit you?
Depends how good the mirrors are, poor ones would just melt, and how much decent mirrors weigh and cost, and if the mirror can be aimed back accurately.
Mirrors reflect visible light. Most of the energy will be a different frequency and so a mirror will still adsorb energy, heat up and break
That would reflect badly on the MOD
FBI vs Ryan 🤔
You should watch "Porton Down: Britain’s Secret Nerve Gas Lab" by GeoGraphics if you want to see the scariest weapons we have. Lasers etc are great for posturing but the weapons developed in Porton Down are the kind if they're ever used, everybody dies.
One presumes that the laser would effect the electronics of its target ?
The Patriot missiles that takes down drones in Ukraine now costs an insane amount of money per pop
It's us british that invented america!
the empire is planning to strike back 😂
The US has one as well, it is specifically used vs drones and missiles since it travels at lightspeed with basically no travel time
Trump was wrong when he said sarcastically “The U.K. a super power…REAALLYY”. Underestimation. I hope it’s never put to the test for real.
How much garbage and mess these destroyed targets will cause !
British technology best in the world
Britain uses the pound sterling. An American would not know. You mistook the pound sign for the Euro one.
These weapons are designed to target small fast boats.
Missiles and drones.
Missiles will be used to target larger objects like planes and warships 😊
A cynical part of me says the footage was released in response to Russian's claims of having missiles too fast to be shot down.
I`m going to have to look up the `Ultraviolet Catastrophe` now. Why have you done this to me ? I`ve enough in my head not to spare the electromagnetic spectrum.
America defo have a laser 🤣
We don't use Euros.....we use pounds sterling.
Now send a drone that's carrying a retroreflector (three mirrors at right angles). Uno reverse!
UK have been quality over quantity for a long time when it comes to military hardware. There also times we absolutely suck at it though. Original SA80 platform that needed H&K to redesign to get it to work, the Chieftan tank that was once described as "extremely effective if it broke down in the right place", deploying our troops to Iraq and Afghanistan in snatch Landrovers that PSNI would have refused to use in NI at the time, the budget cut redesigns of the QE to build with a ski slope instead of cats n traps...to then table proposals of expensive refits to add cats n traps 🤦
If this thing is accurate enough to target and hit small drones and missiles, that alone would be a massive advantage. It wouldn't need to be silly powerful either, just good enough to cook cramped electronics inside or ruin what ever sensor is on the nose. If it can take that role then that frees up VLS space for bigger offensive punch to deal with bigger targets like other ships or warplanes.
The biggest issue all the major players are seeing just now is low cost drones costing hundreds of pounds are needing a missile costing thousands thrown at it and swarms of low cost drones?! That cost racks up fast PLUS even the powerful Type 45 Destroyer would run dry of missiles real quick if a drone swarm was thrown at it. Hand that job to a laser that reloads as fast as you can generate electricity and you take that problem off the table.
If "The Sun" created the story it is probably a laser pointer that the weapons lobbyist used to present a new helmet.
If we could sneak something the size of an Avro Vulcan ( or four of them ! ) past the biggest RADAR net the USA could throw up I'm pretty sure that developing a LASER that could shoot down something the size of a coin would be fairly easy in comparison.
You probably already have one. America just doesn't leave the classified documents about it on a train or a taxi like we do.
The man is a Sun reporter.
I think they meant that they can accidentally shoot down satellite ....
This is a prototype this is not as powerful as other countries laser systems but im sure the final product will be the best in existence
OH no, now marjory tailor green will know it was us brittish, fireing jewish lazers at california forestry hahahahahaha.
They needed this in the "Independence Day" movie😂
Can lasers penetrate clouds? I heard somewhere that lasers can't operated in low visibility such as fog and clouds because they can't see the target, but I'm almost positive that they could use it in combination with radar or something to give a target.
"how to get a laser strong enough, without destroying the mirrors etc producing it"
For that to be a complication means that that's one hell of a laser.
One of those "do not point in your eyes or you'll go blind" type, but the reason you'll go blind is because you no longer have eyes. Nor a brain for that matter.
The American rapter has no chance this is England at its best 😊
Starts at 1:20 👍
I think that the US has something similar. That is 140 million Pounds, not Euros.
The US Navy developed a laser weapon: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/SEQ-3_Laser_Weapon_System?wprov=sfti1
I think it is nice and clean and very clever
This is basically Israel's Iron Dome technology too.