What happens in 2025? / new tactics- new technologies

[MarkSheppard]

Originally Posted by Isto

It can be as easy, than just coat the missile with a material, that either absorbs or mirrors the beam away in some way.

They give a specific power figure in the above article (4 kW/cm2) and a specific penetration figure at 10 km (quarter inch steel plate = 6.35mm)

The 122 mm OF-462 artillery shell has a wall thickness of about 17mm

LINK to drawing

60 to 80mm mortars have a wall thickness of about 12mm

81mm mortar drawing

60mm mortar drawing

A large commercial aircraft like the 747/Airbus/etc has about 2 to 4 mm skin thickness in aluminum; while ballistic missiles differ -- Titan II ICBM had a maximum skin thickness of 6~mm; while the Titan III Space Launch Vehicle went up to 12~mm to support heavier payloads on top.

[Aeraaa]

A very interesting article about the way drones shape the battlefield in Ukraine:

https://warontherocks.com/2024/03/dr...onary-fashion/

[MarkSheppard]

Babe, new drone specialized type just dropped!

Russians have started to deploy FPS and battlefield UAS using fiber optics guidance

https://twitter.com/clashreport/stat...36910943613005

New Russian Russian FPV drone with a coil of thin fiber optic cable over 10 kilometers long.

The drone transmits digital, real-time video over a 10.5km spool of fiber-optic cable.

This kind of drone is almost impossible to stop with EW.