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Very interesting ABL clip:

 

Interesting weapon. Northrop Grumman - great company. One note though, it is only used for attacking ballistic missiles in boost stage (5:21)? That means it should fly pretty close to the launch site (probably just several miles away) as the laser loses power at long distances - something pretty impossible to achieve nowadays :huh:

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The new french "projection and command" ship Mistrall class. It is capable of transporting and deploying helicopters, tanks, other land vehicles, amphibious vehicles, troops. This ship is the largest in French Navy after the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. Russia is discussing the purchase of one Mistral class ship and the possibility of participation in building 4-5 more.

 

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Russia discussing purchase of foreign equipment? never thought i'd live to hear about that, considering it's western build...

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What the hell happened in the last seconds? to me it looked like they pointing pretty much downwards to earth... :huh:

 

The crew ejected and the tape kept running

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Theres two pilots who got a nice tie.... That is if they uaed an M.B. seat.

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Interesting weapon. Northrop Grumman - great company. One note though, it is only used for attacking ballistic missiles in boost stage (5:21)? That means it should fly pretty close to the launch site (probably just several miles away) as the laser loses power at long distances - something pretty impossible to achieve nowadays :huh:

 

It's more than a couple of miles :)

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It's more than a couple of miles :)

 

You might be right i`m not into laser weapons ;) But as far as i know solid fuel ICBMs are harder to destroy, the laser needs more time to cause significant damage. Two more factors are making them even more difficult to deal with laser technology - there are claims that several modern ICBMs have some layers of laser resistant materials to reduce the effectiveness of the laser (at least for some time) and also are designed for very fast acceleration (boost stage) after launch offering very limited time for reaction/attack. Of course as ICBM silos are under heavy guard you should penetrate all the defences first to get close enough. Something a lot of experts are considering unlikely.

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http://mediencenter.n24.de/index.php?deepLink=screen/startScreen/video/425904

German TV documentation about the american F-16 pilot which got shot down by a SA-6 Gainful "Kub" SAM during the peration "Deny Flight" over Bosnia and Herzegovina

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You might be right i`m not into laser weapons ;) But as far as i know solid fuel ICBMs are harder to destroy, the laser needs more time to cause significant damage. Two more factors are making them even more difficult to deal with laser technology - there are claims that several modern ICBMs have some layers of laser resistant materials to reduce the effectiveness of the laser (at least for some time) and also are designed for very fast acceleration (boost stage) after launch offering very limited time for reaction/attack. Of course as ICBM silos are under heavy guard you should penetrate all the defences first to get close enough. Something a lot of experts are considering unlikely.

 

The ABL isnt designed for ICBMs. More like TBMs, like Scuds in GW1, where the patriots were unable destroy any of the missiles...

 

Just place an AL-1 on patrol when you've gained Air Supremacy and have some fighters guard it. Then it's just to burn the TBMs out of the sky as they lift off :)

 

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The ABL isnt designed for ICBMs. More like TBMs, like Scuds in GW1, where the patriots were unable destroy any of the missiles...

 

Just place an AL-1 on patrol when you've gained Air Supremacy and have some fighters guard it. Then it's just to burn the TBMs out of the sky as they lift off :)

 

Yeah but even against TBMs it sounds too optimistic. If we are talking about attacking the missile in boost stage a lot of factors play role and no one is giving us info of the time needed for reaction after launch detected, for lock on the target, for destroying it (while probably everything should be done in seconds). So it looks to me like "we can destroy it if we know its exact position, time of launch, and we are heading for its position" - so to say perfect conditions. Also i might be wrong but i don`t think tests have been made with firing from great distances (100+ miles) not to speak of firing at a target similar to TBMs. Another unknown is the skin protection. Once the perspective of deploying laser systems for countering missiles becomes more real IMHO we should expect various countermeasures in return. So, too many unknowns...

 

Quote from The Wall Street Journal:

"Funding for missile defense was cut in the 2010 budget by some 15%—$1.2 billion to $1.6 billion, depending on how you calculate it. The number of ground-based interceptors was reduced. The Missile Defense Agency's budget for the Airborne Laser is to be slashed in half, and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates pulled the plug on buying a second plane. The Pentagon says the program will have three tries to hit a live missile, or be killed altogether."

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It's first of its kind. It might not do a lot on its own, but that's how it goes. Advances are to follow.

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The ABL isnt designed for ICBMs. More like TBMs, like Scuds in GW1, where the patriots were unable destroy any of the missiles...

 

Just place an AL-1 on patrol when you've gained Air Supremacy and have some fighters guard it. Then it's just to burn the TBMs out of the sky as they lift off :)

 

Actualy all of the scuds were intercepted and destroyed, however tacticaly speaking PATRIOT simply was not the proper weapon to use because should they have chamical weapons onboard they would have been spilled upon inpact over the cities.

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