Watch new laser gun melt drone & set it on fire - as UK confirms 100 hit rate with secret new weapon
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- A LASER gun that shoots down drones and never runs out of ammunition has been fired from an armoured vehicle in a milestone for the Army.
It was fired from Wolfhound armoire troop carrier at drones in a test range in Radnor in Wales.
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can i get a miniature version against mosquitos please
Yes. The Gates Foundation has created an open source Laser Anti-Mosquito System you can build yourself. Video camera, blue laser from an old DVD player, some downloaded software, all under $80.
Don't aim speed cameras at military vehicles
@@jameshewitt5774
I thought that was the Rockwell encabulator turbo.
@@jameshewitt5774 I know this is not true because Gates would NEVER do anything open source.
Yeah, just look up how to make your own. I wouldn't use it within a 25ft radius of my home though. You'll want to set bait outside your area and dedicate a kill zone. It you use servos make sure to set end points to ensure safety measures. And again, if you do or anyone truly decides to build one, don't place it right outside of your home. Accidents happen and you wouldn't want to accidentally forget and be abruptly remembered by going blind or getting yourself burnt.
Can New Jersey borrow this as FBI can't handle the situation there with the drones.
Rubbish - those drones are car sized and moving fast. This tech would be useless.
And anyway you’d be daft to shoot down a big drone over a built up area? Way to kill civilians with falling wreckage
What's happening New Jersey like 3 alien races sent their drones to investigate the planet 😂
@AnitaJobby-bj69 Since when has the FBI cared about civilians' lives? lol. And if they're coming from over the water, then take them down there! And what if they are or become a threat?
I'm more scared of thinks I can't see. Those drone were meant to be seen. Zero reason why it had so many flashing lights.
USA has had these and has been accused of using them on it's own Towns
First drones, then robots, and now lasers. We’re moving towards Star Wars. The future is now.
It can't be because I said that years before.
Imagine what a different reality we'd be living in if Gore hadn't thrown in the towel so quickly in 2000, or if the DNC didn't decide that they were totally fine being regulatory captured by Citizen's United bribery over the last 30 years. Seems like the only time Dems every truly fight is when they're preventing a progressive from making inroads.
No wrong, I said before, then now and then in the future all @Once ☆ 🎩
The force is with you...!.
[Whispers] "Can you hear the music?"
The future has occurred long before and that
is the reason we already know what to create.
Announcing the new "disco-ball drone", complete with mirrors to reflect high powered infra-red laser beams. I claim the patent!
Well the drone was just hoovering really low, which is a unlikely scenario during an attack. I want to see how capable it's tracking and locking on to a moving target at distance.
Step 1 is get it working against static targets, next steps will be moving, dodging, flying etc
Classified dude they show what is allowed 😂
its british it will be on point
go waych @TechIngredients
it works with AI bozos you train ai againt the wanted target and use PI Control software combine them with Yolov8 and then you just need to build techingredients robot and boom you got ur own...
To be accurate, light itself carries zero heat. The heat occurs indirecly as physical matter absorbs photons from the light beam and converts this into molecular vibration (heat) The sun transmits zero heat through space. Heating ocurs when the electromagnetc energy from the sun reacts with matter (has to be matter that absorbs light)
And silicon mirrors as used in CO2 lasers reflect over 99% of incoming IR radiation, so cover the drone in them!
@@thedubwhisperer2157Dont tell the russians 🤫
Can it shoot down hypersonic missiles? Asking for a friend.
Was his name PUTIN?
Considering it only has a range of 1km and a hypersonic missile traveling at mach 5 covers 1km in ~0.5s...probably not.
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Lasers travel at the speed of light hyper sonic missiles to slow
No it cant!!!
What happens if I stick a mirror on the bottom of my drone?
Just slapping on a mirror won't stop a high powered laser beam as mirrors do not reflect 100% of energy and the beam is focused on a small area. I wouldn't rule out drones with reflective materials being used, though I imagine lasers are going to win that arms race.
shhh
dont forget all the sides as well....flying disco ball!
@joskowal3711 There have been experiments done with lasers fired at mirrors. The mirror coating works for a fraction of a second, then gets burned through.
@@stevebarlow3154 Excellent thanks. Sounds like a problem for Ivan's material science department.
this does not change the fact that in Australia there are 48 million kangaroos and in Uruguay there are 3,457,380 inhabitants. So if the kangaroos decide to invade Uruguay,each Uruguayan will have to fight 14 kangaroos
how I got to my venerable old age without that information I will never know ;
Even worse if the kangeroos catch them on-the-hop
oh my giddy aunt ( clutching at pearls ) just hope the kangaroos don`t invade scotland ....
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LMFAO !!!
Wow! It's even better than a kid with a magnifying glass!
It just has to damage the drone camera. With such a powerful laser it happens almost instantly.
@@penio78 wrong wavelength of light
Ehh you can still crash a drone into something if you loose visuals. its quite common to loose the image close to the ground or with terrain blocking RF signals on the FPV style drones that this will need to take out. The battery is the best target as the drone is essentially dead if it looses power instead of just blind.
Mounting several cameras sounds cheap
@@owaind-g678 the primary role of a drone is for recon though, no eyes, no intel
You gotta hand it to the brits. They always come up with amazing stuff that helps. From radars, vt fuses and splitting the atom from WW2, to the recent laser guns today
Is someone holding a tv up in the background in the office? 😂😂
But will it intercept incoming people's boats?
Now which news broadcast will have the guts to show this ?
@@jappleyard2069 I can because I don't live in the UK. Will not face consequences-schtarmerquences
@@jappleyard2069 Christmas trees may have shiny balls but they don't, ho ho ho
🤭SECRET@@jappleyard2069
3:47 the most underpaid worker; the one having to hold the TV up in the office all day!
Lazers that could do this have been around for 30 years..The difference now is the SIZE. The lasers can track many targets and are small enough to fit to standard army transport. SHIP based ones have also being used for at least 5yrs. Also the LAZER is invisible unlike the VT shows.
It's really cool that it can do this to the hull of the drone. What a lot of people forget is that a laser this powerful will fry the camera used to fly this thing in less than a second of exposure.
R&D in this field is critical for all future threats and warfare.
Legislation on flying drones also needs to keep up with
In the very near future a person will be able to purchase a flying car fully equipped with an automatic pilot and a lethal microwave laser beam. Fly By’s will be crazy. 😱
Yes … and it will automatically inform the police and issue an instant fine and points on your license if you go over the speed limit 😮
That's a lot of dead birds.
You mean a lot of KFC
It's cool and all but lets see it in action against 90+ mph FPV drones... After all, we cant just ask our enemies to stand still for a moment whilst we shoot their drone down lol.
What. They can be tracked from miles away 😂😂 and the laser moves at the speed of light. And i guarantee it can go over a mile as there worried it might hit satellites. These weapons can take down anything including so called ET craft
Can't believe it took this long to implement a similar concept to using the sun and a magnifying glass.
A normal drone will move like crazy and they didn't show that. Lol
Yeah that isnt gonna work unless the drone is basically staying still
That is why you use programs and ai to aim at it. You really think it will be manual? Iron fist used on tanks to protect from missiles has extreme reaction speed thanks to program.
@rokos.1239 can the targeting system intercept incoming missiles with just 1 km range? I don't know their speed.
not a commercial drone carrying a granade or a mortar shell
do they fly faster than the speed of light?
New armed drone, follows laser light to source while zig-zagging.
30 year old tech that's been sitting on a shelf, collecting dust, and just waiting for a war.
Without doubt beyond cool. IT may not need ammo but it does need an immense amount of stored and fast flowing energy. That means a hell of alot of oil, generators and various power supplies. Batteries would never work beyond a zillion of them for one shot. Cool but Id love to see them comment on the power needs and how they ill that.
You put a reflective coating on drone or constructed in plastic with appropriate wavelength to defeat it?? Hmm 🤔
Enemy will just wait for a rain or fog, or create smoke screen with another disposable drones
Bro literally we’re going to starting an intergalactic war.
We need to get some of those to stop the "mysterious drones." 😂
"fast moving objects" shows a stationary drone slowly being disabled...
that was my first thought. also doubt it "never runs out of amo" claim. it will fry itself if it encounters a drone swarm
Wouldn't be a very good video if you couldn't see anything
I think it's maybe talking about the blades that rotate very fast to identify and lock on.
And also each color sends out its own radio waves so you can actually program lasers to burn whatever colors they want they just have to set it to the proper radio wave
What a shame they are never actually deployed when drones are invading. Just like the police. Always show up after a crime is committed.
Divergence is going to make sure that you never have to worry about shooting anything in space. The atmosphere and various particulates in the air will cause the laser beam to spread out and become as harmless as a torch.
Britain leading the world with military tech again. Well done guys.
Awaiting Electronic Parts From China..
Wait untill it’s deployed, it won’t work or will be countered within few weeks max.
@JJ03330 It's Operators will come down with Severe Cases of "Runny Bottom/Headaches".
@richardsanders4624 Possible to 😅
Your deluded, america is miles ahead.
When me and my friends and a hand full of other people mentioned this we was called conspiracy theorist at the time
Laser - "Hold still for 5 minutes so I can burn you..."
Drone - "No Thanks"
If controlled by AI aiming system, won't matter if the drone moves. All it needs is to focus on a rotor for a couple seconds and drone goes down.
fly towards the light, don't be scared my little drone
LOL! You have no clue how powerful these things are. 40 years ago Laser Fire Rapier could direct the laser and track with the required accuracy, but it was only a guidance laser. Just because you don't know how it is done doesn't mean it is difficult for people who do. The one announced in the US is 20kW. Or at least they are admitting 20kW. Blue Halo LOCUST. I know there are others.
If it's real, you as a drone operator wouldn't even know you were being shot until you caught fire and crashed.
@YeeterMcyeeterson Closed loop control systems have been pointing things at maneuvering targets for more than 80 years. In the late 80s a laser could be pointed accurately enough to track a target drone the size of a car at well over 20 miles. Things have come a long way since then.
Can we please borrow a few right
now in the usa??
Not talking about it in national news,
but Oregon is beset by them too.
Scary 😱
Will blue cars survive a good beaming?
These require heat sensors to pick up energy.... the drones in NJ do not emit heat💀
Is there anything Britain didn’t invent, like ever?
USA has had these 😂 in fact People have been called conspiracy theorists for claiming they've used them on small towns
Gunpowder.
Sarcasm, probably...
@@alunhuang-wright3030we definitely invented that, I'm the king!
Try the Israeli Iron Beam which is a 100kW-class High-Energy Laser Weapon System by Rafael Advanced Defense System unveiled in 2022 as part of their integrated air defense system,. The US has a $1.4bn order with them. .
Next come the armored drones.
Agreed, a laser will work on cheap plastic but aluminium or titanium wont be melting so easy. It will certainly drive up the cost of drones.
And the sharks with lasers
@@peterschmidt1453 They are testing laser systems to shoot down missiles. Look up the DragonFire LDEW system, they've been able to melt straight through motar rounds with it. Iron beam was able to take down rockets as well.
Took me 30 seconds to figure out hot glue and whatever plates or ceramic tiles you can find in the houses you encounter near a battlefield. Im sure blades can even be made out of porcelain. This laser is paper army level.
They will just stick mirrors on drones, cost 5 bucks to counter 100 million bucks of tech 😂
No drone stay still😂😂😂😂
working drones do
The world: We need to invest in drone tech.
Imperial March plays
UK: Time to get the laser tech out or storage. It's Starwars time!
Thank goodness all drones stay nice and still...
Well except the 200mph fpv modified munition ones!
And at 200mph tracking and maintaining localised heat due to cooling will be difficult. Silvered drones will also be a cheap way to mitigate somewhatt...😅
So why are we not actually using or testing them right this moment in NJ,Ny,Pa ?
this is the future.
God Save the Kink
All you need is a titanium diamond mirror to defeat it...😂😂😂😂
Doesn't matter how much dramatic music you play or animations you show, the only actual real life example you gave was a tiny little drone that was not moving.
Version 0.1-to-1.0 maturities are often boring to outsiders but hats of to The Sun for catching something in development. Some people like this kind of thing.
@@NoGoodHandlesComingToMind South Korea already has a working version in production. UK version won't go into production until 2027 (and these dates are never met)
@@TC-oj2vd In 1903, the New York Times predicted that humans would not fly for between 1 and 10 million years. However, the Wright brothers successfully flew their airplane nine weeks later, disproving the prediction.
@@owaind-g678 didn't get with the times and the brothers were Wright all along?
News Update: Drone equipped with mirror destroys Dragon Laser within seconds.
When this becomes more scalable, it'll make air defence ridiculously lethal, so long as sufficient early warning detection and then targeting systems are in place because the stand off range for lasers would be far greater than any missile.
It would mean that entire squadrons of aircraft could be blasted out of the sky well out of range of them being able to drop a long range missile for example. All of this new tech will nullify cruise missiles, even ICBM's if the early warning systems are good enough - meaning all of Britains adversaries who have hypersonic missiles have come to nothing, when Britain is using technology that is utilising lightspeed.
The potential this technology has can radicially alter the power status on the earth. Crazy times we live in!
You are forgetting basic physics. The usable range of a missile from an aircraft is around 100 miles. The range of a laser with a power supply the size of a small building may top a couple of miles. Diffraction and heating of the air spreads the beam right out. That is why lasers as weapons have not been used on the battlefield apart from range finding. These anti drone lasers may work 50 yards or so. Good at near ground level. No good if the drone is high and dropping bombs on you.
@mbak7801 thanks for the insight. I _guess_ the proficiency will be linked to early warning and thus, tracking systems also, in order to make these laser systems much more viable then. Provided they fix the energy supply problem (amongst others) that you've alluded to.
The OP doesn't have much to say in response?
@@mbak7801 Hmm, ship borne lasers would have access to a LOT of electrical power for stimulation... hence the new weapon described in the video...
@@discipleaj The US's new AIM-174B missile recently deployed by the Navy have a range of about 250 miles at a speed of mach 3.5, while the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM), a cruise missile, has a range of approximately 1,000 miles.
Well, it was a ‘secret new weapon’ until ‘The Sun’ went and told everyone.
Generating the required power is easy, if you want to have a standalone power supply. If weight is critical there are gas turbine generators that are light and powerful. For trucks there are hybrid motor generators which can kick out a lot of power from the truck engine. A laser beam isn't hot any more than an electrical wire is hot. The beam is just the path where the light is travelling. If you intercept the beam then the thing you intercept it with will become hot, but the beam is not. Technical education in the press is next to non-existent.
Drone: "Ima hover low and in one spot so I can melt slowly, yeh."
"We always thought these would be on large warships because of how much power it takes. Yet, It only costs $10 per shot" okay, have you ever used $10 worth of electricity in 5 seconds? Do you have any idea how much wattage that is? You think we are stupid.
@MardukTheSunGodInsideMe QUOTE “Yet, It only costs $10 per shot okay, have you ever used $10 worth of electricity in 5 seconds?”
Please check my calculations :-
1kWh of electricity costs me £0.50 so 20 kWh for £10
5 seconds is 5/(60 * 60) hours, = 0.001389 hrs
So the power required to deliver £10 of electricity (20kWh) for 5 seconds = 20/0.001389 kW
= 14398.848092 kW say 14000 kW
A British Rail Class 27 diesel-electric locomotive develops (At the rail) 933 hp (696 kW), say 700 kW
so the laser is as powerful as 14000/700 = 20 locomotives.
I’m confident that this laser gun will not be carried by the infantry.
The answer to the question is “No” although judging by the way Brirish Gas put their prices up, the answer will probably be “Yes” in a couple of years.
Compared to the cost of a drone. That's practically a bargain bin deal
Mmm... $10 will buy you about 200MJ of electricity.
5 second deployment = 40MW. I think not...
Gotta love TH-cam 'science'. The thing is, most viewers remain completely ignorant of units and basic physics.
Next up - how make unlimited free energy by using a 1kW motor to drive a 10kW generator.
more invovled than just electric
this makes all of gordan ramseys kitchen knives obsolete
You could fund its development by selling an app that stops stupid back ground noises
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I think you mean 'Killer laser' - Illiterate Sun writers again!
I am kind of disappointed: We have industrial lasers which cut through thick steel sheets like through butter. And this here needs several seconds perfect aiming. I was expecting some "one shot" laser for distances at least 3 or 4 miles away. A pulsed laser with a MW/s
Lasers lose power rapidly over even small distances. Those cutters will be practically touching the steel it cuts
Modern drones can flight at any axis. They can detect these attacks and simply rotate a highly reflective barrier directly at the laser, thus avoiding any damage.
They need to minaturize it further and put it on an exo-skeleton suit and also make the smart glasses that predator has so it can automatically target drones.
a wee bit like antman and the wasp suit ...ha ha ha
All thats missing is full AI control and we are in terminator land.
I whisper to my DARPA Dog, "Todd"....
"...go get me that laser..."
The British really are one step ahead in military tech.
They didn’t have the biggest empire in history for nothing
Israel is already using laser weapons
why are they not using this on our bases covered in drones/UAP
All the doubters will get a big surprise when the thing enters service.
Like the Dragonfire?
If you actually ever saw how much was developed and never entered service you would be amazed and disgusted at the same time.. I did 34 years and saw plenty of kit that was in the media and during exercises touted as the next thing only to never see it again...
Flex propaganda
In 500 years lol
All the defensive equipment have near 100% accuracy till they tested in real scenario.😂
Great progress, but that's one drone at a time.
Most likely the opponents will send a drone swarm, many at the same time.
Just as well all drones stay still like that…
Soon drones covered in mirrors. Disco balls make a comeback.
Aussie Slingers and german Skynex and Gepards make disco balls EXPLODE!
so you didn't watch the video to understand why the Brits are in the lead with this tech?....mirrors! lmao
@@Johnmillward9092 Brits are in the lead??? Turkey shot down big drones with laser weapons YEARS AGO in an actual battlefield.
@@MasterOfWarLordOfPeace lmao as far as im aware NAZAR (2019) was useless, ALKA(2022) failed and is extremely unreliable JARMOL is a useless replacement of ALKA...You state the allegations yet have no backing...Dragon Fire (2017) is the only one recorded to destroy a drone...i know what im talking about pal, it's best you do the same
@@jtf2dan I knew Aussies respected their natives but that sounds ridiculous
I imagine drones with mirror defences sending the laser straight back to where it came from.
Laser rifles and side arms will also be available in the future. They will take some time to arrive, but they are within our field of grasp and will eventually make an appearance, one day, our modern firearms will become obsolete, only to be seen by collectors of rare antiquities and in museums.
Because burning weapons won't be targeted by human rights groups?
No they won't , the power supplies required to produce a hot enough beam to be useful will make the system too heavy with current battery systems . The laser is not the problem it's powering it . They never show the huge power supply that the laser head is connected to .
They can always induce currents from a vehicle, I suppose.
Burning weapons won't be well recieved by HR groups...
@@RichardCheese-o2m It would need to be a large truck with a powerful generator on board . Israel made some ground breaking discoveries in this area . It combined the beams of three smaller lasers to make one powerful beam and as a result the three smaller power supplies were much lighter and more manageable than one huge power supply .
now where did i put my light saber ....
Oh no I'm so scared. Said the drone as it flew directly into the vehicle carrying a 40 year old RPG.
Biggest problem is maintaining beam on exact same spot for those few seconds. It has to track drone within cm accuracy.
History has taught us that something is being developed that can overcome this laser cannon
Proton Cannon in a billionaire suit
I would much rather have this headline,...........
"Ukraine acquires new weapon with 100% accuracy against Russian drones and missiles!! Previously unknown weapon."
This constant blabbering about the West's military inventions serves no good purpose to be telling Ruzzia what we are doing.
I think what needs to be strengthened is electronic warfare weapons. But it has to be really strong.
Won’t work against fiber optic drones or ai controlled drones
@@angelnunez6476 EMP works against electronics... if they can jam in a limited space.
@@RichardCheese-o2m Emp has short range and no country has ever made a working one for anti drone defense. Theres testing with microwave beams to disable drones though but drones can make countermeasures to it
now lets see that work on a drone doing evasive manuvers at 100 mph
yeah sure ruski. Like a comercial drone carrying a mortar shell can do evasive maneuvers at 100mpg 🤣
You think that's difficult? LOL. That was possible more than 40 years ago. What we lacked was the laser power. We've had the power for quite a while now, so it just required someone in government to agree to the want and need. Even consumer drones with cheap low power processors can do optical tracking.
Why is the video in portrait format!!?
I would rather see it be used on a cruise missile, or fast mover rather than a small drone that’s sitting still. I understand that they don’t want to reveal all of its capabilities, but I think a demonstration on something that is more likely to be used in warfare would be better.
There are other systems for that. This is designed for anti drone.
It's like saying it would prefer is patriot air defense could knock out fpv drones... It's not designed for that.
If the drone is hovering... only... 😂😂😂
Pootins days are numbered he may as well give up now
that looks way too low power to kill even tiny stationary plastic drones
a little bit of tinfoil on a 200km/h FPV drone and this laser will simply fail
I think I read somewhere in the past that a laser beam limits its own effectiveness by super heating the air in front of its beam and this causes the beam to be less effective.
Where do things go from here? This turns the whole drone-warfare nightmare into meltdown status!
@@davetekannon no it doesn’t- barely impacts it as this weapon is slow, expensive and has a very low operational range and is very easy to counter measure. Also only works in clear weather
5 years ago "Omg, directed energy weapons don't exist you're a conspiracy theorist."
Today, "Omg I love Science (TM)!!!!"
It's all so tiresome.
Secret weapon lol it's so secret the sun is showing it off 😂😂😂.
And climate-friendly won't heat up the planet
Laser Weapons 😮 Welcome to Star Wars 😂💀
Phasers set to ‘stun’
Star Wars technology. It will be good up against the Sith. 😂
so now they are coming out with DEW's on the ground. Will they talk about DEW's in space...
This has been around for awhile. They said it was too complicated and expensive to repair.
perfect for military industry
"The drones will make all conventional weapons obsoletes!"
The UK : "Actually..., I've prepared for that."
If anyone knows about the story during ww2 about the UK and the German U-boat, I think there's some beauty about lessons learnt regarding UK creating this laser technology. During the ww2, when submarine was still a new technology where there aren't exactly counter measure for that, the UK lost a big one sacrificing their fleets of world-class warships to the newly made German U-boat. There was nothing the UK could do during the early stage and their powerful warships and cargo ships sunk like flies. Considering that the nation's power relies on their colonies and their resources, losing ships for the UK was basically cutting off their artery. The UK eventually developed radar technology to counter the submarine, resulting it's victorious against the U-boat, but not before they already lost the most chunk of their fleet and their influence overseas, possibly contributing to the fall of the mighty British empire later on.
As for today, the role of drone in warfare is kinda like how the submarine was back in the day, a new technology to disrupt the dynamic of modern warfare, potentially win over the established super-power and tipping off the status quo. However, the UK already developed a counter measure for such disruption. I guess the UK learnt it's lesson and not letting the today's "U-boat" making them lose big again.
It is scheduled to be ready for the battlefield one month after the war ends.
Virtually limitless... as long as the weather is clear, there are no obstructing plants or buildings and there's no smoke on the battlefield. 😂
Well if the laser is powerful enough it can punch through clouds no?
Now imagine dragon fire but larger and powered by Nuclear reactors. Yeah our enemies are gonna have a bad surprise. Imagine seeing your colleagues just bursting into flames out of nowhere. Scary.
Use Mako Energy
UK SHALL RISE!
Unlucky falcon birds
The kamkazi drones are faster and hits you before !