Heard news that the joint strike fighter will by 2011 be fitted with laser defense systems against enemy missles. Mabye even a full blown laser weapon??!!
If this was also fitted to F22 it could make conventional missles useless and start a new tech race. But for a while US fighters would be untouchable, do you think they would use them seeing as by then the national missle defense system should be up and running.
The hawks in the white house may see it as too good to miss!

I've heard about these defence systems, they use strong lasers to blind the infrared seeker heads on most missiles, its only of any value if fitted on a stealthy airframe as the radar head can still track accurately.

The JD-3 apparently wouldn't necessarily work in a situation where the tank was iluminated by a laser separated from the munition.. i.e. illuminated by one aircraft and fired on by another.

Originally posted by copcorn
The JD-3 apparently wouldn't necessarily work in a situation where the tank was iluminated by a laser separated from the munition.. i.e. illuminated by one aircraft and fired on by another.

It attacks the source of laser illumination?

And the laser guided munition (bomb / missile) is NOT emitting any "laser light"..

So it would target the laser illuminator on the 'targeting aircraft' and not the bomb carrying / attacking plane..

So it works?



[Edited on 8-10-2003 by FULCRUM]

Kali,

my dream is the day that the US has such superior power compared to the rest that hey just give up and we win.

Originally posted by THENEO
Kali,

my dream is the day that the US has such superior power compared to the rest that hey just give up and we win.

*COUGH* delusional *COUGH*

That would do nothing but spark a new arms race.

Welcome to the one world governement and the new World Order

Originally posted by THENEO
Kali,

my dream is the day that the US has such superior power compared to the rest that hey just give up and we win.

Nerd,

Why would American superiority cause an arms race?

for the defiant opposition to have the need to always be defiant? especially when they are socialists and communists? If they change their politics then it is fine for them to exist.

Chooky,

when the NWO takes over it will be easier for the good man to do what needs to be done, now we have too many competing systems fighting such that half the time it appears they are fighting just for the sake of the fight. That is the true waste of human existance.

THENEO,

This is not a mud pit or war against terror forum.



'Aircraft projects' forum isnt about oppinions or about being a patriot..

This is about facts.

will they be fitted on every plane as a standard or will they only be used by the usaf. sounds cool if they fit them on every plane. The netherlands has also interesses in the jsf.

so these lasers will protect the plane from missles.
thats cool maybe i can have one on my car.