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Drone mounts a mirror.
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SHORAD mounts a better mirror
The reflections make the laser grow in intensity between bounces (source: cartoons)
Eventually the laser burns through the shitty drone mirror, mission accomplished
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Next thing you know it’s mirrors all the way down.
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The Honor Harrington series says you just forgot to make them "bomb-pumped", then they'll work. Glory to the Kingdom of Manticore. If it's really a classically liberal, benevolent, monarchical, capitalist Utopia, why doesn't everyone just move there? There seem to be many billions of people in the galaxy who absolutely don't want to live there.
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Melt the mirror. Who the fuck does it think it is anyways, shiny things don't belong in the sky.
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Retroreflect back to source. Blows up source.
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Ok, so use a combo shot with a maser. If the light beam doesn fry the outside, the microwave beam will fry the inside.
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Put a piece of metal behind the mirror.
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Return to sender
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Yeah, but the one top (Chad position) looks sexy as hell, while the one on the bottom looks like someone kitbashed it from sprue frames
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pew pew pew
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Firing a piece of munition that is worth many times the target is a win for the enemy even if you hit it, they can just keep lobbing Ali Express crap at you until you run out of missiles.
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I suspect that a mass-produced shell with a time fuze can be made more-cheaply than a drone.
I also kinda suspect that using a pulse laser on a drone runs the risk of eye damage to anyone nearby and looking at the thing, from reflected light.
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They'd probably need some form of protective eye wear, definitely.
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MFW it’s a knife missile on SC business, and it’s in a bad mood :O
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Genuinely curious: can they destroy large swarms of drones given the time to load?
