WTF?!!! What this crazy Russian doing?

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[titanic3]

[Plawranc]

As I have always said, the USA holds the advantage at BVR...

if the Russian gets within VR and into a turning fight, his superior PTW and short range weapons will bring down pretty much everything.

So the USAAF is naturally, as Eagl points out... Not going to get into a VR fight.

[Denholm]

Have you ever seen a Russian drink water?

[Vulcan]

Everyone is.  Energy density, power generation, and recharge times are a problem.  So is getting enough energy output through a small aperature and aimed in the right directly.  Done elegantly, you don't need a ton of output power but then detection, correlation, response selection, and aiming become the issue and that is also not easy even for large systems in large aircraft.  And, you need to know what you are countering.  Is the plan to defeat an EO/IR seeker?  Burn out a radar seeker?  Heat it enough to defeat the warhead or fuze?  Or heat it enough to cause a kinetic kill via structural failure of the missile itself?

There are already active countermeasures out there, but I'm not sure any of them would be considered high energy and I think they're intended to defeat EO/IR guidance.  That doesn't do anything for a ground vehicle being attacked by a dumb RPG.

effin lasers.... What happens if I make a plane made out of mirrors?