Laser and Microwave Weapons - Directed-Energy Weapon Programs, Potential, and Issues
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- čas přidán 1. 05. 2024
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While technology has continued to evolve, most weapon systems modern militaries use operate on old principles. A artillery piece is a world removed from a Napoleonic cannon, but the idea of detonating a charge behind a projectile in a tube in order to propel it in the direction of something you don't like - that remains the same.
For decades, Governments have also been investing in trying to develop systems that operate in very different ways - including directed energy weapons like lasers and High Powered Microwave weapons (HPM). And for decades - very little emerged in terms of deployable, destructive systems.
But on a battlefield increasingly dominated by cheap and precise threats such as loitering munitions, FPV drones or naval kamikaze drones, there is more pressure than ever for forces to leverage recent technological developments to turn concepts into functional, deployable tools for their armed forces.
In this episode, we look at the concepts behind Directed Energy Weapons, ask what advantages and disadvantages they might have compared to more conventional equivalents, and what how militaries might use them going forward.
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Caveats & Comments:
All normal caveats and comments apply.
In particular - I would like to note as always that this material has been created for entertainment purposes and should not be relied upon to inform financial or other similar decisions.
I have also not sought to provide a fulsome explanation of the science behind the operation of HEL and HPM systems. For those interested, I would strongly recommend further reading and I will include some potential sources in the source list below.
Relevant Reading (to added 20/02/2024 once I have access to my research notes and materials again)
Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:10 - What Am I Talking About?
00:12:27 - The Directed Energy Promise
00:17:42 - Ground Applications
00:25:48 - Naval Applications
00:40:51 - Aerospace Applications
00:47:00 - Countermeasures and limitations
01:02:10 - Development challenges and risks
01:06:43 - Channel Update
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This video was recorded produced under pretty austere travel conditions but I hope you enjoy the way it came out in the end. I will have a more fulsome channel update next week if all goes well, and will be updating the source and reading list with, well, my sources and reading list as soon as I have access to it again tomorrow.
Hope you enjoy, apologies for pushing this back a day, and I hope to see you all again later this week.
Tanks with frickin laser beams attached to the turret!
All good. Quality over quantity!
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤️
Sharks with fr'kin laser beams on their heads is totally going to be a thing.
Frickin lazer beams, now we just have to install them on the foreheads of sharks
I think 5-10% of the US defense budget goes to acronym brainstorming sessions.
Or invent acrnym, then devise weapon.
A weapon may be effective but want get funding unless it sounds cool.
I'm sure it's hard-coded in the first six months for any development effort.
I'm sure they think of a name first and then brainstorm the words to turn the name into acronym
That little?
FIRE THE POWERPOI..... I MEAN THE LASER!
Fire the laser pointer !
I am now imagining mixing Styropyro with Perun.
Interesting.......
_HALF-LIFE: Full-Life CONSEQUENCES!_
*Gary's Mod Sfx.Laser*
No,non non. It's "Fire 'Ze Lazors' Wait, I mean missiles!
Nods in Jingles
Laser Physicist here, and a couple of comments.
Firstly laser weapons may not necessarily effect thermally. There are other mechanisms based on much shorter pulses which come with their own set of advantages and disadvantages.
Secondly is that in cost per shot calculations, the cost of the optics is typically neglected. Optical systems tend to degrade over time, and depending on the exact nature of the system this can be significant. Another aspect which plays into this is how susceptible the optics are to damage if they get dusty or dirty, which if combat footage is to be believed, military vehicles often are.
What would be the best ways to prevent optocs from getting dust and dirt on them? Beyond routine cleaning.
could you just send a sailor out to polish the optics between use, or would they need to be totally replaced?
@@fourthknower9831 I mean cleaning needs a bit more than a wipe with a cloth. At best you might be able to find a coating with a low coefficient of friction to reduce stuff sticking to it. If that coating still has good optical properties is another question. Dust particles as small as a few micrometres can be enough to cause major damage so it's hard to keep an optic in the wild clean.
As far as preventative methods, covers such as what you might find on binoculars are a good bet. Any moving parts though also lead to an increase in particle generation so it's push and pull.
@@macattackmicmac Would a constant airflow of filtered air reduce the optics getting dirty?
And could the majority of cleaning from small dust be done automatically by washing them in a clean, filtered liquid (water, acetone, IPA), then disposing of the liquid (or repurifying it)?
Could you use shutters? Like the opposite of a camera?
"How did you get that mirror so shiny?"
"...Polish?"
"Proszę mi wybaczyć. Jak uzyskałeś tak lśniące lustro?"
lol
You had me in the first half, not gonna lie
Cha cha dobre
mamma mia
'Destroying the vehicle is a pretty reliable way to take out the optics'
The Russians have developed an escape mechanism to allow their turret optics to escape the destruction of the hull.
Lol awesome!
There went my coffee 😂😂
“Sergei eject the turret!! We need to save the optics!!”
*flying frypan nosies*
Soldiers the first time they saw a flyingTurret "The mini boss has a second stage😲" 🤭
@@thelukesternater 'The Cast Iron Curtain'
I LOVE that the Emperor's flashlights got an honourable mention 😂
and even while there are lasguns in the 41st millennium that are supposedly the top of the line weapon for any non-augmented humans there are still projectile-based autoguns being used that are not too dissimilar to an AK
Ma Deuce is still out there in the 41st millenia
@@Condorito380of course the is. It’s called the the Heavy Stubber.
I think las guns and the best stubbers are around as capable as each other. It's when you get into the billions per unit that las makes logistical sense...
Now he'll have to do an episode on protective gear so he can mention the Emperor's t-shirts.
Finally settling the long standing debate that going “Pewpewpew” with your finger guns is WAY more powerful than saying “BANGBANGBANG”
I was one of those kids who tried going for the Megatron arm-mounted fusion cannon. I had as much luck hitting things as he did in the weekly cartoon 😞
Except most kids don't have big enough hands to go "PewPewPew".
I tend to go Brrr Brrr Brrr. Far superior rate of fire than PewPewPew or BangBangBang, and no noticeable loss in accuracy.
@jimb9063 How do you compare rates of fire with a continuous laser beam vs a discreet projectile? If you're going by number of projectiles, the laser transmits millions of photons per second. I guess you'd have to calculate the actual energy transfer rates. Also lasers don't make any sound 😊
Whumwhumwhum microwave emitting child
Hi Perun, I am a microwave engineer so I can comment a bit about the efficacy of microwaves vs higher frequency laser systems. Caveat is that I have very little experience with optics so I won't talk too much about that stuff. One of the main advantages of lower frequency radiation in comparison to high frequency is that he amount of energy lost on the way to the target is much lower for low frequency radiation. In simple terms, a microwave system and a laser system with the same output that both illuminate a target at the same distance, the microwave radiation will contain more energy than the laser. This is offset by the fact that the beamwidth of the laser is much tighter than the microwave system but it is a significant contributing factor. The next advantage of microwave systems is their ability to operate in cloudy environments where direct line of sight to the target might be obscured by water vapour clouds or dust. As you can imagine, not every situation will be in ideal operating conditions so this is a really useful feature. The last one I would like to just mention is that generating high power microwaves is very easy and cheap with modern technology, especially when you don't have to worry about the harmonic content of your signal which I assume you don't care about when trying to destroy something.
None of this is to say microwaves are superior to lasers in this regard but they have clearly defined benefits over lasers and weaknesses such as actually getting the microwave energy to interact with whatever you want to damage.
Whatever non-organic you want to damage anyway.
@Dr_le_Quack just to confirm, water blocks microwaves?...and what else blocks microwaves and lasers?
@@atkpw1108search defeating microwave
"The sun is a deadly laser" what a great frikn callback Perun 11/10 sir.
Always nice to see that reference pop up somewhere.
Bill wurtz is actually 100% correct, google what a nicoll dyson beam is and then take a look at what a rkm/rkv is
The weaponization of a the sun is an... *Interesting* prospect.
I love that he probably put that there when editing because his voice is little different like its a different time of day.
Definitely was not expecting a Bill Wurtz meme in current year
If only everything could be as pure as Bill Wurtz's love of music (& possibly psychoactives)
I love just how far the US goes to make everything have a cool acronym.
No cool acronym, no funding. It’s a dog-eats-dog world out there.
Laserpig got his Nickname from the Laserbear, a Russian 'psy-op' where they claimed they could use a laser satellite to destroy another enemy satellite.
So, the USA *BUILT A REAL 1!*
👏 🤣👌
Russia: _It was at this moment, he knew,_ *he messed-up!*
New Perun Powerpoint idea:
"How Acronyms shape armies"
@@dx-ek4vr HASA
@jhwheuer not all of it. Not everybody. Not all the time
Terminator, "Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range."
Pawnshop Owner, "Hey, just what you see, pal!"
love it
There should be an award for most creative way to cram a military acronym in a cool sounding word
Turtle Island Commission for Outgoing Naval Defense, Energy-weapon Redirection, and Other General Armaments
(for people who don't know, "Turtle Island" is an indigenous term for North America - because the continent looks like a turtle)
USA will always be the acronym champion haha
I'm sure there are. There's a lot of effort put into having catchy acronyms because Congresspeople love them and they actually make it easier to get funding for your projects. (See also things like how the PATRIOT act was a hideous backronym just to try to make a ridiculously controversial piece of legislation sound more "patriotic".) I wouldn't be surprised in the least if defense contractors would pay out hundreds of thousands of dollars in bonuses for a good acronym.
And the award, of course, should itself have an acronym.
-general we have new super weapon
-OK but what it's vulnerabilities?
-Clouds
1 minute 13 views 17 comments. Community engagement has been acquired.
Sensor net has detected PowerPoint and rules of engagement consulted...target engaged.
How did these people 'view' the content in 1 minute? How could their comments be germane?
@@nickcharles1284all CZcams requires to tally someone looking at a video as a view is you clicked on the video and watched at least 10 seconds of the video (not including the ad at the beginning if there is one)
So what is the significance then of 13 views in one minute? @@the_undead
@@nickcharles1284 That means at least 13 people have clicked on the video in under a minute, most channels, even ones that can regularly pull million view videos. Don't get those kinds of numbers
>Perun tells us we have to wait another day for an update
>Perun shows up the next day with FRICKIN' LASER BEAMS
... your terms are acceptable.
Im biased as a brit, but "Dragonfire" is a badass name for a laser
It’s a very cool name. Please, please, sell it to us Aussies. Please!
One day I will understand why I must watch these weekly PowerPoint presentations. Today is just not that day. Keep up the great content.
It's because Perun goes to extreme lengths to put together an unbiased appraisal of the subjects he covers. He's not swayed by propaganda and speaks with many experts who've been able to provide as much declassified opinion on the war and its progression.
@@WOTArtyNoobs please provide a PowerPoint explaining your analysis and conclusions. The preferred method of sharing is in a video format with a voice over. Thank you.
Sorry, too busy producing videos for my own channel to supply you with a Powerpoint on Perun's subject.
However, I did provide a comment (see below) which pointed out that the first directed energy weapon tank was not the Soviet one. It was a British Matilda II tank called the Canal Defense Light and was built during World War 2. The conventional gun turret was removed and replaced with a 13 million candela carbon arc light that could be directed at the enemy to blind or dazzle them. It was only used once in action for the crossing of the Rhine, but not for the purpose that it was built.@@joaoaugusto1009
People read books and newspapers and go talks of experts.
How is this any different? I would say it's rather normal to listen to somethibg like this.
Not everything has to be 3 minute videos while half the screen is about someone playing an unrelated game and a random dude doing faces in the bottom right corner.
@@hafor2846 It's also easy to just listen to Perun and not watch at all, or only occasionally take a glance at the presentation. That makes this format arguably superior to newspapers and books, albeit in a very condensed way in the latter case, since you can get the same knowledge, while being able to do something else at the same time, such as commute to work, work out, cook or do chores. Good stuff.
Perun the sole channel on youtube where I don't know if the VPN Ad Read is an Ad Read or an actual part of the subject matter.
His transitions are silky smooth
If I ever want to sell a product to this viewer base, I would use him. He has the only ad sections I do not skip.
He worked it in so seamlessly
He does have a laser-like focus.
Perun's transition makes LTT's segways look amateurish.
As a Warhammer Nerd i am so happy that you presented the almighty Imperial Army Lasgun to a broader audiance
"(...)We're raiding Toy'r'us" for weapons of war" - Perun.
Love it. On the spot again.
Maybe toys'r'us would still exist if they sold weapons
> Warhammer fans have power axe, power sword and power fist.
> Perun fans have powerpoint.
Edit : damn ! Thanks for the likes
Clearly we have the superior weapons...
Logistics
still counts as a Power weapon
The standard issue power weapon of the Ultramarines.
*_Laughs in Roboute Guilliman._*
*Into the fires of battle, unto the anvil of war!*
Lets not forget about the mighty shovel. A Kriegsman goes nowhere without one.
Praise be. Our sermons have been answered. The Omnissiah has graced us with another Perun banger.
Must be Monday
Banger? I didn't hear anything.
I love the pedagogy that explains space-age laser weapons by starting with throwing rocks
“Are those fricken sharks with fricken laser beams attached to their fricken heads? You’re the best evil son an evil father could ever ask for.”
-Dr. Evil
Finally the Bond villian episode!
Now that's what I call solar power!
Fricken laser beams
I’m still amazed that I have seen the development of real laser weapons in my lifetime. My favorite application of them is deployed as several systems defesively on a carrier, fueled by it’s nuclear reactor. Pretty much infinite, low cost ammo that’s available immediately. Thanks Perun!
Once they start building ships, vehicles and aircraft around these as dedicated systems, instead of the bolt-on's that are happening now. Then you'll see the next step up.
Then, building a land-sea-air doctrine around their use and inclusion in combined arms.
I worked with civilian microwave and lasers for close to 20 years and its been a staggering advancement over that time, systems that used to be 'laptop' sized components that didn't leave you much change out of 200k that arrived with a security guard, within about a decade they became the size of a thumb drive and a thousand bucks on express freight. Plus a lot of ancillary systems that involve beam forming and targeting moved out of 80's sci-fi star wars defense initiatives into the civ-sector about 25 years ago now and are in common use around the world. So by my approximation, the really bleeding edge stuff is probably at least within about 2-decades more advanced than anything I was ever messing around with. That's mostly the Euro-UK and USA development along with Japan, I don't really see anyone else having the development to advance the tech past the current equipment in the field (ie- China, Russia, Iran etc) just going what I've seen of their civilian grade equipment
What I know about the US equipment. Well its literally ridiculously more advanced than even the best European equipment
I am waiting for shields and thus the immediate relevancy of battleships.
"UN LIMITED PAWA!"
*Limited range may apply, check with your local weather report for additional information.
*Physics will apply
*Do not look directly in the beam.
It just point defense and in the kilowatt range, useless except as a range finder for something in the triple digit terrawatt range.
Except we don’t have anything that would reliably work now. And probably not for some time, even on a boat as a big as a carrier.
Since we are getting this over the internet and many of us are watching the video, this is actually a light speed discussion of laser weapons.
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How about an episode about Baltic states defence strategy (and Suwalki gap+Kaliningrad as a sidementione). Keep up the good work.
I’d like to add to this by saying that an episode dedicated towards choke points around the world (suez, mallaca strait, Taiwan straight, Panama Canal, gulf of aeden, etc) would also be really interesting. Especially how these choke points will work in a WW3 or larger scale war scenario when both sides of the conflict will (most likely) have it within their interest to affect these areas to their advantage.
Baltic defence strategy now is basically 2 pages, with one containing the word FINLAND and the other POLAND, both at font size 72.
@@B1gLupu 3 pages in that case, with Sweden on the 3rd page. Sweden will have military presence in Latvia. (In reality it is and will be EU wide).
Realistically, the strategy is basically "panik".
If it comes to actual physical action, then frankly we're doomed.
Yes. I have mt ideas buit want to know yours.
"The sun is a deadly laser" xDD Incredible overview once again, thanks & gg Perun.
I miss Bill Wurtz.
67 minutes on lasers and not a single mention of sharks with lasers or babies with laser eyes, ala the Boys. Travel surely makes it more difficult to add in the comedy.
Seriously, this was great. Personally I'm in the camp that says lasers will never quite be the weapon of today.
Honestly the single biggest misconception of Laser weaponry is that they're visible from the side like they are in images and sci-fi movies and shows. The entire point of lasers is to be focused onto a single point, so ofc they're invisible from anywhere other than that one point.
The developers have to work on that. Also the sound needs to be developed properly.
Although sufficiently powerful lasers are absolutely visible in-atmo - past a certain point they end up converting the air they travel through to glowing plasma.
wouldn't dust-scattering make the beam visible?
@@cremsen1 Yes, it does.
The continuous-beam laser the U.S. shot two satellites with was located in the Nevada desert, and on one of the shoots enough dust was kicked up at a high enough altitude that the beam was visible in Texas.
I'm really glad that the people working on these energy weapon systems have made it a priority to come up with cool sounding acronyms for each one.
When you have to say the name ludicrously often, and put it on all the paperwork dealing with an unpronounceable acronym is annoying. Imagine having to say "SCRA" hundreds of times a day.
@@arthurmoore9488 Skra isn't too bad. It's RTNR that gets to be a pain. Not to be confused with the RTHR (read as "Arthur") or RHNR (read: "Runner.")
Perun: Your sarcasm is EPIC!!!!
Wait, you mean to tell me the USAF does things other than develop ground based systems. Though I will admit, a project that was cheap, fast, and worked well enough is suspicious.
7:21 Point of order - a microwave weapon typically behaves _exactly_ like a laser, because most modern microwave emitters are in fact a type of laser, just firing in the microwave frequency. Their beams are coherent, potentially more so than their IR / visible / UV counterparts, since we can just generate coherent wavefronts using antenna elements. The reason they still might spread out more than a visible light laser is down to the wavelength of the radiation - microwaves just generally spread out faster than visible light does, which is partly why we evolved to see using light, not microwaves.
Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational Power Point.
"phase plasma rifle in 40-watt range" - terminator
I'm sure some PFC will heat up his MRE using this wonderful microwave technology sometime in the future.
THOR - Tactical High-Power Microwave Operational Responder. Seriously, can we just take a moment to appreciate US military industrial complex acronyms? seriously, what the hell, it's like a parody of itself at this point. Can't wait to see the acronym for Mjolnir... Modular Joint Operational Laser in Near Infra Red...
It has to go "boom". 30 years ago the big mucky mucks came to the Arizona desert to watch a tank go boom at the local weapons test station. So the underlings made sure to cram the interior of the tank with gas cans. The resulting sound and pyrotechnics were magnificent. Everyone was best pleased😅
You Americans always get the coolest stuff. I wish we had even half of your cool toys here in Australia.
Perun, just wanted to drop you a line right quick to say that "you muh boy!". Love the channel and the content. Haven't even had time to watch the episode obviously, but from one analyst to another, you are doing God's work my friend! Keep it up!
Ok
Honestly kinda fascinating that the best use case for the most high-tech-sounding weapons might actually be against the cheapest possible threats.
I mean, historically that's often been the case. Don't like the hoards of peasants descending on your holy army endowed by God with rusty farm equipment? Try guns!
Don't like the hoards of conscripts charging your extremely nice trench system? Try the machine gun!
Can't see what Jeff is doing because he's five miles away and behind a hill? Try aircraft!
Jeff is still too far away? Sattelites! It's cloudy? Infrared and ground-radar!
“Unleash the directed energy weapons!!”
It’s a microwave TV dinner, Barry. You’ve been watching Perun again.
To summarize, energy weapons are happening with a lot of qualifiers and unknowns and this is like the fourth time they've poured money into the energy weapon money pit so be patient and temper expectations.
22:24 "no-one has yet found a good way to bend..."
Radio-hams: hold my beer.
The point about confidence and their ranges being shorter than more expensive protection systems was very strong and I hadn't considered it at all.
PowerPoint Man! 😡
Where's my weekly defense slideshow presentation?? 😡😡
*Shows Las Gun*: "this is a funeral prop".
How dare you! Your loyal enforcers have served their rogue trader and the Imperium adequately with such holy weaponry!
Oh how I've been waiting for this episode. Nuclear-powered UV laser cannons, here we go!
Pew pew
😂
This video is truly a game changer.
I would say a force multiplier 😂
There's a maniac named "Styropyro" who treats the net to the most ungodly dangerous laser and chemistry experiments-- DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME stuff. when the FBI came to ask about all the orders, they met his adorable pet squirrel :) He's very entertaining and knowledgeable!
I really liked the very strong presentation of pros and cons on several issues. This is the sort of balance that is woefully absent in so much other reporting. Keep up the good work!
Quibble: particle beam weapons are lumped in as "directed energy" per Wikipedia. As such they are kinetic. It's just that the projectiles are really tiny and the velocities really large.
Nice quibble. Is anybody except CERN developing them?
No, particles in a particle beam don't deliver damage by kinetic impact and transfer of mass, it's the energy that causes damage.
Your definition of "directed energy" isn't the problem, it's your definition of a kinetic weapon. So, Wikipedia is also still correct.
@@tonysu8860 Except that you're not so much transferring mass but transferring energy. The kinetic energy (force) imparted by the mass as it decelerates (mass times acceleration) imparts energy into whatever was decelerating the projectile, causing that object to rapidly disassemble itself. Thus a bullet is a directed energy weapon, directing force to an object and imparting it as it impacts or passes through.
Aren't semantics fun?
extra small particles and extra big photons are close to each other in terms of military use
Oh quiet, you :p
I am 100 percetn sure that once smaller microwave beam weapons get mounted on vehicles for the infantry (an anti air Humvee) that we will see GIs cooking an MRE with it.
Fun drinking game, take a drink every time a new Acronym is introduced
The issue is that about 10 minutes in you become too drunk to realise they're acronyms
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The forward deployed clean rooms in the desert to service the Raytheon laser are pretty wild.
I forgot the release was delayed,basically a bonus video for my Monday. Go Perun!
Congratulations on 500k Perun, you definitely deserve it! Class and quality content with dry humor sprinkled in? What is there not to love?
I remember when DEW stood for Distant Early Warning, the line of radar stations in the Arctic designed to warn of a Soviet attack.
Welcome to the future, babe.
🎶 THE SUN IS A DEADLY LASER 🎶
not anymore now there's a blanket..
China broke again...
The bacronyms alone are enough to bring a patriotic tear to my eye
I get so happy anytime Perun makes a Warhammer reference ❤
I have to comment before finishing the video. The Star Wars "bolt of light travelling slower than a bullet is not laser" clarification reminder was very enjoyable to hear. This has been a pet peeve my whole life. Even in my most childish sci-fi fantasies I could never even fake some pseudo scientific mechanism for it.
Though we have to admit it's just not as emotionally impactful to destroy things with an invisible ray of light energy and nothing is flying. Maybe it's because humans have been throwing stuff at each other for tens of thousands of years and it feels like closure when it hit the mark.
Then you get to the part of the episode where someone actually admitted that's one of the challenges.
however there is a idea of slug throwing lasers. the idea being is that you use tesla coils to focus light into a slug like a bullet and release all the energy at once - then it fires out the barrel like a kinetic bullet at the target. this has only been able to used in lab conditions and at current tech levels (last I heard of the project) it could burn through a pad of paper three-to-four sheets thick.
Okay folks - all those thousands of you out there viewing these and not liking them - seriously? It's just mean - you can do better.
Shut up.
Congratulations on over 500.000 subscribers!
😍 Understandable, excellent content 😍
The Lasgun reference was pure GrimDark genius.
Re: “Lasers are the weapon of the future and they always will be”
I can’t help but wonder how many R&D tracks that have existed but never been true front-burner priorities are going to see increased priority in response to the proliferation of drones.
It increasingly seems true that the need for a low cost per drone kill system is critical to large militaries. The ongoing Red Sea incident is perhaps the best example. Even the US doesn’t want to continue the current exchange rate of interceptor cost vs cheapness of attacking drones.
Thanks yet again, you managed to allow yourself to publish on a monday!!!
Kudos mate, keep up the great work @PerunAU!!
Now I have something to listen to while walking around doing my tasks today. Thanks Perun! I usually get it on Sunday and just lay around gaming and listen, but now I can not be bored during the day!
First video of yours I watch. Great analysis. I like the tone/inflections you use and the peppered jokes here and there, delivered completely flat but effectively. Even with the best Geopolitical vids I tend to nod off after a while but something about your delivery makes it possible to keep watching for a long time! Great job sir.
Imagine just how mind blown the first person who figured out you could throw stuff must have been.
I'm here just waiting to like the generic "wake up babe perun just uploaded" comment
Even with a days delay I will always be there for this when they're uploaded
I just love how Perun is more and more embracing the internet
"No one has found a way to bend a laser beam in combat" 22:35. I am going to put a marker down you later talk about one of the problems with lasers being that after prolonged use they start to bend.
So I lost my marker. Anyway another technical problem with laser weapons is that if used in a small area (not moving) over time they will heat up the air they are shooting through, which will cause the lasers to bend via refraction.
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… Even in death I serve the Omnissiah
If there was one topic guaranteed to summon a wave of 40k memea to the comments, it was definitely this one.
To quote an ancient internet meme:
“IMMA FIRIN’ MAH LAZER!!”
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Also don't forget that a laser designed to heat something up is only going to do so if what it's hitting is suitably absorbent to the lasers specific wavelength, so making the target reflective enough not only protects it pretty well, but also creates the risk of unintended casualties via reflection
I'm guessing that Lasers and Maser's are just going to negate low cost 'unhardened' munitions like the FPV's and off- the-shelf drones that are proving so deadly in Ukraine.
They will resst the balance back to high cost defences being attacked by high cost munitions.
One thing's clear: Whether talking about offense with energy weapons, weather issues, or defeating potential defensive measures, the solution is the same in both cases: MORE POWER!!!!
You've made my lunch break 10x more better! Thank you for the great content
YAY! Ive been waiting for this one since the 3rd video you did on military armament and programs!
Great video, thank you Perun for the analysis of these technologies and implementations.
Can't wait til Emutopia releases the Laser Sharks!
I had no idea how used to watching these on Sunday. I had gotten until I noticed yesterday that there wasn't one. I hope our friend didn't beat himself up about it
Yeee he posted in his Community section on CZcams that there was a delay due to him travelling :) I got worried too as soon as I saw he didnt post Sunday
He keeps people in the community tab painfully away
Congrats on the 500K!
Super interesting subject that I had definitely been interested in but tend to neglect in my own research; thank you for the clarity and professional touch🙏 Simply the best defense-oriented channel on CZcams, period!
Congratulations on the half million subscribers! Well deserved!
4:00 Vipukeihäs on the top. Translation: Lever spear.
Fun things, one summer I built one and threw it around on an old field till it landed so that the spear slid against the ground when it landed and got tangled so deep in the roots and underbrush that I couldn't find it anymore.
I believe in English it is called atlatl
@@jesseestrada8914 Only in the sense that that's the term most commonly stolen by English-speakers for the weapon.
If power point is a weapon system, Perun is a five-star admiral fighter ace
5 minutes in and there's already a "history of the world I guess" reference? This is gonna be a good one.
Very good video for helping people get up to speed on a complex subject, and the dry sarcasm just makes it fun, lol.
Dear Perun,
First congrats on your 500K, feel proud on your accomplishment.
Secondly, i wonder if the development of the SMRs (small modular reactors) mean for the future use of these kinds of weapons on larger naval warships. The IAEA states that a small one could have an output up to 10MW(e). If put on a (for example) French Mistral class (it has the space, heck, its propultion is electric controlled) the ship would gain an alternative propultion power and the power to opperate verry heavy lazer/microwave weapons if needed. This offcourse also for different but equally heavy vessels.
Oh how I want the Navy to implement a laser that has the sound effect of the Death Star firing (just to make sure the navy people know the laser is doing something).
Awesome Topic
Can't wait to watch the Episode
Star Wars🤗
Boys we will get there
I love these future tech episodes
Congrats on the 500,000 subs and many more!