Complex integrated attacks require the ability to stop airborne threats at range, defeat swarms, and also deal with close-in pop ups. There’s a need for a layered, tiered mix of high-performing sensors and cost-effective effectors, integrated into a command and control system that can handle a highly saturated air picture - to allow commanders and operators to easily react to complex scenarios. bit.ly/44T7I4p

@Vollpfosten

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for making a source so available for us to read.

@jonp8015

10 ай бұрын

At the start, i thought that little "brought to you by Raytheon" was a joke, but as it went on it became clear this was a sponsored ad... Very informative sponsored ad, though.

@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing

10 ай бұрын

I'm gonna go with 'Russian things that don't work nearly as well as they say it does' for $500, Alex.

@chairmanofthebored6860

10 ай бұрын

​@@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing I'm gonna go with "paid sponsorship from Raytheon that destroys all credibility this channel ever had for $1000, Alex"

@shadowslayer9988

10 ай бұрын

​@@WindFireAllThatKindOfThingI'm going to go with the United States bring peaceful democracy to the Middle East and Africa for $2,000 please

What a great sponsor spot. Really hits the target audience. I'll definitely be purchasing probably the 15 kW laser for placement on my roof.

@RivenWine

10 ай бұрын

I know I watt one.

@karlbrundage7472

10 ай бұрын

There is only one rule in YouTubing: Secure your bag

@quissbird-10

10 ай бұрын

@@banellie Why would procurement officers watch a youtube video about laser weapon tech?

@AmatuerHourCoding

10 ай бұрын

Im waiting for the affiliate link 😂

@zippyparakeet1074

10 ай бұрын

​@@banelliewe are also the target. Influencing the masses influences government policy due to public pressure.

What a time to be alive when Raytheon is supporting YT channels like Task and Purpose. I'm looking forward to General Dynamics putting gamers in the AbramsX.

@CT-4849

10 ай бұрын

Crankin 90s in a crisis battlesuit

@oscccar1

10 ай бұрын

Its the company from the meme 😅

@y__h

10 ай бұрын

I spilled my drink lmfao 😂

@sage8573

10 ай бұрын

Always knew this guy was paid by the military industrial complex, I like the channel but its obvious he's getting paid by arms manufacturers and probably governments.

@bashkillszombies

10 ай бұрын

All the gun tubers critical of globohomo and Israel: Raid shadow legends. The Jewish guy who loves the current thing: RAYTHEON.

They did. Hawaii is an example

@JCeeDarkStar

9 ай бұрын

Paradise, CA

I read an article many years ago about long-range, atmospheric lasers. A team experimented and determined that three or more weaker laser beams around the main beam would ionize the air and thereby extend the range and effective power of the main beam.

@armyofaceas

10 ай бұрын

Kind of like the lasers the alien ships used in ID4 huh?

@cathoderay305

9 ай бұрын

Surefire was working on a similar idea years ago. They were trying to ionize air along a laser beam's path in order to make it conductive. If they'd been successful, you would see a Surefire product very much like a taser but without wires. The early literature I saw clearly described it as it were a Star Trek phaser set to stun. It was a brilliant idea and I wish it had made its way to market.

My father worked on the Stars Wars/SDI ground based laser system - specifically adaptive optics to account for atmospheric aberrations so that the laser would stay effective at long distances (your comment at 2:58 - "...beam integrity..."). I remember him showing me, at an MIT-Lincoln Labs open house, a (simple) benchtop version of the 'adjustable' mirror surface system that would change the laser beam for atmospheric 'clutter'. When talking to him a few months ago, before his death, he wondered, figured, that his team's designs/technology probably made it into ground based space-telescope systems.

@MostlyPennyCat

10 ай бұрын

Correct, our land based telescopes use three or four reference lasers to measure atmospheric jitter. A computer then calculates the required inverse optical device to cancel those aberrations out. Finally, servos in the adaptive optics reshape the optics to match the computer model and now your telescope behaves such that there is no atmosphere. And this process is completed hundreds or thousands of times per second. It's why we're building bigger and bigger land based telescopes instead of launching them into space ala Hubble or JWST.

@TStark-vj2wo

10 ай бұрын

@@MostlyPennyCat Yup, that's the functionality of the system that my father described/worked on.

@XXMatt0040XX

10 ай бұрын

(I am not a scientist) I'm currently watching and left a comment (that I'm editing as I watch.) I came assuming laser weapons will not be practical until nuclear fusion has been harnessed. That's what I assumed, if a beam's density isn't high enough even a simple cloud's refraction would ruin it. "...mirror surface system that would change the laser beam for atmospheric 'clutter'." That's very interesting and aiming was something I thought of. I liken it to the Coriolis Effect with a bullet (hope that makes sense lol).

@tinto278

10 ай бұрын

@Armadous what do you think? 😉

@boknow5506

10 ай бұрын

​@@XXMatt0040XXwell yes and a mirror would destroy the laser if reflected back on itself and original cd ROMs used lasers and mirrors the same way to transmit data and it wasn't compact at first so it was easy to see and eventually got small enough the cd players and writers you see today so the only difference is higher power lasers and they expend energy at the end so different than say a light bulb but sure a mirror would reflect it back on itself

There's some feeling I get from hearing "sponsored by Raytheon" that I can't even begin to describe.

@chairmanofthebored6860

10 ай бұрын

Yes you can. It's called betrayal. This is a commercial for Raytheon, at the low cost of all credibility he ever had.

@reecesx

10 ай бұрын

Yea, something about starting with a country that got booted out one of their kazakhstan launch pads over not paying rent in the very low 7 figures range, somehow citing them as the inspiration and demand for the technology seems like a totally authentic analysis. Something something lets just shine an overly focused tourch on a weather satellites imaging sensor from Earth, that'll destroy enemy navigation and comms satellites, am i right raytheon engineers???

@up4open

10 ай бұрын

@@chairmanofthebored6860 Whatever. You don't have the skills to knock down a hypersonic missile, and it makes you jelly.

@jackwalker9492

10 ай бұрын

You can thank those evil defense companies for us being light years past our enemies

@grandtheftavocado

10 ай бұрын

When I hear "Raytheon" I think of disabled black trans lesbians in wheelchairs who control UAV's that drop bombs on Arab families. So diverse!

Wow it’s amazing watching this channel grow from a man doing short videos doing what he loves to being popular enough that he gets bought out by raytheon and the military industrial complex 🙌🏽

The multi-layered air defense systems are employing the “Swiss cheese” model. First used to talk about automobile safety, and later during the Covid pandemic, each layer of protection was like a slice of Swiss cheese- it could stop threats but not all of them. But adding multiple layers of protection would dramatically increase the effectiveness of protection.

Actually, 'Star Wars' was a derisive term coined by members of the media that wound up catching on. President Reagan was mocked as 'Ronnie Ray Gun'. While a lot of the tech was impractical for its time, the project was instrumental in breaking the Soviet Union as they struggled to compete with SDI.

@euansmith3699

10 ай бұрын

👍That's my understanding, too; SDI was Economic Warfare.

@joshlewis575

10 ай бұрын

I always like "Ronnie cocaine cowboy" instead

@charlottewolery558

10 ай бұрын

@@joshlewis575 I don't know if you're right or left, but that nickname just makes me love Reagan more.

@petesheppard1709

10 ай бұрын

@@joshlewis575 I never heard that one!

@karlbrundage7472

10 ай бұрын

I always preferred Reagan's Nom De Guerre "Ronbo", after a derisive political cartoon published in the mid-80s. It was like a badge of honor

We really live in peculiar timeline where we will have lasers, traditional weapons like AKs and bows in use (in some parts of the world)

@ch3cksund3ad

10 ай бұрын

we are seeing either the beginning of Fallout, or Starfield from what little I know of Starfield, either way, Earth aint looking too good lol

@ubersuperboss7761

10 ай бұрын

bows. In the russia army?

@excrementgaming7764

10 ай бұрын

@@ch3cksund3ad The beginning of Ace Combat would be more fitting.

@gusgone4527

10 ай бұрын

Bows are being used in Ukraine to launch 40mm grenades. Shush, it's one of their best kept secrets. It's simple recognition that if a simple system works perfectly well. Why spend millions on a high tech replacement? Incidentally, the nemesis of a laser weapon is a mirror. Ask any technician from a laser research laboratory.

@hannibalwantsahuggrande3433

10 ай бұрын

​@@ubersuperboss7761pretty amazing Ukraine is getting their ass kick from just shovels and bows and arrows right bud?

My wife is a Phalynx design engineer at Raytheon. Her reaction to the phrase, “Spray and pray” was visceral, and quite entertaining. LOL! 🤣😂🤣😂

@stoneface1099

10 ай бұрын

She should have had an opsec conversation with you before you told the world.

@maltheri9833

10 ай бұрын

​@@stoneface1099Compromised, the both of em

Being on the first team of soldiers to test the DE-MSHORAD laser system was a wild time. Seeing the damage these systems can do and a whole new way to destroy airborne and potentially ground targets is unparalleled. The biggest thing is that the “ammo” for most of these weapon systems is JP8.

@Whiskey11Gaming

10 ай бұрын

I look forward to the dystopia where my ammo count is measured in shots per gallon! 😅

@AmatuerHourCoding

10 ай бұрын

So we are shooting things with oil 😂

@zippyparakeet1074

10 ай бұрын

What's JP8?

@jscoutoa

10 ай бұрын

@@zippyparakeet1074 the type of fuel the US military uses for almost every vehicle and generator. It’s a type of diesel.

@zippyparakeet1074

10 ай бұрын

@@jscoutoa i see. Thanks for answering. A follow up, what approximately is the cost difference between it and civilian fuel?

Will be interesting to start seeing mirror surfaced drones!

@yashashgc3488

10 ай бұрын

my thoughts exactly, just put a mirror on the drone.

@alexbarnett8541

10 ай бұрын

Mount a scanning galvonometer to precisely return beam to sender. Make them more dangerous to the laser operator than the target. The easiest way to destroy a laser is bounce it back directly into it's own aperture.

@ThisFinalHandle

10 ай бұрын

Insert image of Terminator HK-T here.

@TRAZ4004

10 ай бұрын

It would have to be a “perfect” mirror with 100% reflection. Even with 99% reflection the a laser could damage.

@foxtrotunit1269

10 ай бұрын

Mirrors don't reflect all energy and break easily. Once a small piece is missing it becomes useless. But it's a strategy worth exploring.

This is an incredible video and even more relevant than it already knows because super conductors at room temp are now being developed

You’re killing it with videos lately, well done sir! 👏🏼

laser weapon technology has always been a interest of mine since my father told me about his time in the army. he was drafted in 69' and got to play soccer for the army the first 2 years but then he had to move on. since he was part of a engineer battalion him and a group of others got "volunteered" for a secret program. he had to sign a 20 year non disclosure act but when he told me about this in the 90's it was not all that secret anymore anyways. so they got shipped off to Texas where they had a job of being the "targets" who where to run around in the desert in trucks with target attached to the back. planes would fly by testing a laser weapon, what he told me was it was not set to maximum so it would leave burn marks but could not destroy metal. i dont know if he is saying the truth but he has a burn mark on his face that he said was when he got hit once. he drank alot and joked he liked to tell this story and make fun of the guys in his camp, being a old time vermont yankee it was a experience meeting all kinds of americans. just my 2 cents on this.

Dazzling lasers are effective not so much because they're so powerful, but because their targets are so sensitive. A starlink satellite doesn't have a camera to dazzle so it wouldn't be affected. A spy satellite has a very sensitive camera and powerful lens, so any laser light hitting the lens gets amplified and focused onto the image sensor.

@aliassabertooth5990

10 ай бұрын

It is all about wavelength and power - as far as "doesn't have a camera to dazzle"...... as far as you know ( to quote Fletch) .....

@ThomasLee123

8 ай бұрын

The latest pulsed Terawatt Solid State laser weapons are very effective against modern Field Effect Transistor (FET) based Integrated Circuit (IC) electronics because of their frailty against high voltage energy beam attacks. FET voltage weakness is a long standing problem with integrated circuitry that weapons engineers have ignored up til now. But it is great for laser weapon designers.

@jameslopez5652

6 ай бұрын

Not counting refraction from going from the ground through the atmosphere. I would 100,000:1 odds it hardly works whatsoever, if at all.

I really appreciate your work- thanks so much.

Great stuff brother keep up the great work Chris.

0:01 Cappy is the most valuable part of the military/industrial complex

@chairmanofthebored6860

10 ай бұрын

Yep. His soul is obviously worth less than what they offered him.

@ThePowerLover

10 ай бұрын

@@chairmanofthebored6860 Nope.

wow so much info on here ! thankss for this awesome vid

You are a great salesman ;-) And an interesting episode. We are in the middle of a lot of changes.

Not a military person, but I've been watching your channel for awhile now . Love your dedication man

Wait until the satellites fire back. I always felt like I'd live long enough for SkyNet to finally kick in.

@MrBrew4321

10 ай бұрын

Putting a heavier (more powerful) laser is easier on a ground battlefield than in space, so ground up has a huge implicit advantage. Also on the ground you can power it with a huge tank of chemical energy, while in space whatchya got? batteries? Powering those with solar power? Now you've got a huge target on your back your solar pannel?

@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle

10 ай бұрын

That can only happen if built with AI... but they aren't.

@Matt-yg8ub

10 ай бұрын

@@MrBrew4321 you do realize most of those satellites would be nuclear right :-)… yes, you can power laser with chemical energy on the ground but you don’t have to shield a reactor in the vacuum of space:)

@MrBrew4321

10 ай бұрын

@@Matt-yg8ub YIKES! so... when we blow them up they would scatter nuke debris all over?

In Star Trek the phasers of the ship almost never got the job done. They always had to use the photon torpedoes to do the trick. Just sayin....

@banto1

10 ай бұрын

ya, but you had to lower the shields to use 'em

Love your videos. Some of the most informative and entertaining .🎉🎉🎉

Chappy what can I say, Your a rock star . Keep those videos coming.

So you want infantry with frickin' lasers attached to their heads?

@theoutlawking9123

10 ай бұрын

Don't forget the SHARKS!

@alpinegoat2054

10 ай бұрын

Only if they’re I’ll tempered

@majorian4897

10 ай бұрын

Brotherhood of Nod is calling...

@daveflibotte6962

10 ай бұрын

Lol

I love this channel! It really gives an insightful perspective on what sorts of weaponry and technologies different militaries have and what war with them might look like now and in the near future! Thanks a lot 😀👍

@chairmanofthebored6860

10 ай бұрын

Yes,sponsored content from the company that makes all of the technology present in this video shouldn't make you suspicious at all.

Wow. No satellites then no shipping, no aviation, no communications. How many consumer devices and applications are satellite enabled? Great video Cappie.

This was a GREAT video!!!! I’ve noticed in comments that the general public doesn’t believe these Lasers exist, great to show they do , the deployed laser on 3 US Navy ships show its moving and AI will change this massively!

I did a double take when Chris announced his sponsor for this video. I thought he was talking about the people who make ear-buds; nope, he was talking about the massive arms manufacturer! 😮😄 What a weird world we inhabit.

@chairmanofthebored6860

10 ай бұрын

Yeah nothing suspicious at all about a video promoting the products of the same global arms producer that sponsored the video. Dude just lost every ounce of credibility.

@KennyNGA

10 ай бұрын

​@@chairmanofthebored6860well he's an US American ex soldier who is talking about geopolitics so there wasn't much to begin with

@chrisbyers6084

10 ай бұрын

@@chairmanofthebored6860 Cappy was open and upfront. When you naysayers start making cash donations you might have some credibility. Dudes got bills to pay.

@chairmanofthebored6860

10 ай бұрын

@@chrisbyers6084 boo hoo. Couldn't care less. It is impossible to have an unbiased opinion when you're shilling for the MIC.

@wraith8323

10 ай бұрын

I thought he was joking

Although there are treaties against using lasers to blind enemy soldiers it’s an very effective way of neutralizing the enemy. We need to be researching this technology because I’m sure our enemies are.

@cedriceric9730

10 ай бұрын

Permanent blinding lasers is whats forbidden, there are plenty of blinding lasers in use

@Talishar

10 ай бұрын

@@cedriceric9730 Not for people, no. They're considered illegal and used only by illegal combatants. If it's able to blind someone, it's capable of permanent damage.

@therevolutionary537

10 ай бұрын

@@TalisharStare at a flashbang and see what happens. Temporary blindness is allowed.

@Talishar

10 ай бұрын

@@therevolutionary537 We're talking lasers. If a laser can blind you, it's also causing some form of damage with it. Also, a flashbang can actually cause permanent damage to the eyes. It may not fully blind you for life, but there's still some macular damage from getting hit by a flashbang at rare times. They say the worst of the negative effects are "reversible" which means macular laser surgery should be able to fix most of the damage. Let one of those go off a foot from your face and see if you get out unscathed.

@raevj

9 ай бұрын

China already tried to blind Philippines sailors on their disputed territories not that long ago..not sure exactly what kind of source light it was, but right in line with CCP tactics.

Thx mate great video!

Compliments on your presentation style and thorough analytical skills.

I've seen elsewhere that high-power lasers are being mounted to certain ships that use nuclear reactors that generate huge amounts of electricity already, so that's a very good fit for the platform.

@torg2126

10 ай бұрын

Stick a few kilowatt range point defense lasers on top of the conning tower of a suppercarrier, and you have something that can slaughter drone swarms, blind the cameras on TV guided missles, blow up submumitions, and destroy light boats. Also, a laser is basically a narrow focus, high fidelity, long range telescope, so you have easy visual identification. Add in a megawatt range chemical electric laser system, and you have something to kill cruse missles.

@greebj

10 ай бұрын

US military ships being built now have vastly overspec power generation for future incorporation of energy weapons. Or they already have them operable now. Who knows 😂

@torg2126

10 ай бұрын

@@greebj it's partly future proofing, but largely about dealing with jamming

Great ways to start fires 🔥 and help with depopulation. Fantastic 👏

@boriscook6817

9 ай бұрын

How many lasers does Blackrock have

@paulcardsfan

9 ай бұрын

@@boriscook6817 alot

@Primordial...

9 ай бұрын

I didnt investigate Lahaina . I wish I was a computer social person . I need someone to send me pics so I can see if it was laser I'm an operator years back . What was the weather in Laihana that day, because laser weather will only be mostly clear ,and windy or it wouldn't have worked.

@Primordial...

9 ай бұрын

I have one pic of Maui forest with a helium neon pointer and the invisible actual. It looks real to me . anyone else see it?

@wilfredovilanova8455

8 ай бұрын

M&aui, Ca&lifornia, ext.

Congrats on the 1 million subscribers by the way

Great episode!

It really is funny that lasers mounted on airplanes originally developed to shoot down nukes changed into drone defense systems mounted on APCs.

@anuvisraa5786

10 ай бұрын

an that al this laser defence are goint to render air power inefective

You can actually build those drones for well under 250 bucks. Only the drone is destroyed. The radio and analog or digital goggles are also saved. So it’s a very profitable way to fight

@RandomCommenter-qu2oc

10 ай бұрын

Cost effective or profitable?

@tellyboy17

10 ай бұрын

Well, now you need to coat them in chrome to deflect those lasers, that will drive up cost!

@terrelldurocher3330

10 ай бұрын

​@@tellyboy17umm... It doesn't work like that. And covering shit in chrome would be very inefficient for cost.

@pbkobold

10 ай бұрын

Invest in drone and laser manufacturers now.

@googlebackup-ll8fr

10 ай бұрын

@@tellyboy17 will see how well russian laser defense works, my money is on it not working at all

Excellent video. Well done.

Very helpful, thanks

What if a missile with an integrated smoke screen to block out direct energy weapons? Or Reflective material coating?

I highly recommend the film "Spies Like Us" for a down-to-earth (no pun intended) take on laser-based missile defense. Dan Akroyd + Chevy Chase are pretty hilarious as deep-cover government patsies.

@JiveCinema

10 ай бұрын

You guys have a tent?

@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing

10 ай бұрын

@@JiveCinema The Bar-Kays were having a tough time getting gigs

"my partner, Raytheon..." damn bro. Congrats! You're doing so well :)

Hi Chris! Wondering where you bought that shelf holding the YT Play Button! I like it! Want one. 😊

Maui has a DEW site

I remember the Airborne Laser Lab from my days at Kirtland AFB in the late 70's. One of the issues is the massive power requirements for really effective lasers. Ships are a natural for laser platforms, and if you notice, all the latest destroyers have oodles (a technical term) of extra power to power lasers - whenever the Navy gets its laser program to work. We have had deployed laser units on ships for years now It is time to get some that can deal with the cruise missile threats.

@panan7777

10 ай бұрын

They are oxcarts compared to today's tech. Commercial 50kw lasers now have 40% efficiency, so one Abrams turbine engine can power 600kw strong laser. NO more chemical lasers and bulky tech or huge generators. You could put two of the in a cargo plane and nothing will get thru. Commercial laser punches 10 1/2" holes per second in sheet metal and competes with a punching machine in speed! The newest tech is from Star Trek.

@chuckdavinci9044

9 ай бұрын

@@panan7777 OXCART is the fastest airplane in history 🤦‍♂️🤣

Thanks!

Really quality content 👌

I think one of my favorite uses is the air defense ability of lasers taking out drones, incoming rockets, missiles, and aircraft. Especially if they are more effective than current reactive armor, lighter faster tanks able to counter ATGMs. If they are not more effective, they still will be an excellent added layer of defense on top of the reactive armor. Depending on the mission, you could have a lighter faster tank easier to transport or go over bridges and such and still have a defense against ATGMs or if you need a full assault you add the reactive armor sacrificing speed. Lasers per shot are a cheap way to keep our soldiers safe and make their equipment more deadly. Edit: He mentioned one such technology, the Raytheon HEL. IF it works as advertised, that would give vehicles a huge advantage. Especially since ammunition for the HEL is as long as you have power and as I mentioned the cost per shot is change in the pocket. Tanks get a huge boost when it comes to the question of their relevancy if it had such a defense.

@JohnGeorgeBauerBuis

10 ай бұрын

Ironically the T-14 Armata could be a predecessor of future robo-tanks that are small, light, and remotely controlled (and able to navigate themselves, only requiring humans to decide targets and set ground objectives).

@Talishar

10 ай бұрын

Future missiles, drone and aircraft will just have a super reflective coating designed to reflect nearly the whole infrared spectrum and make lasers useless as a defensive tool. We already have the technology to surface coat metals with extremely thin ceramic coatings so it wouldn't take too much to alter the ceramics to a mirror finish. You'd then have an extremely heat resistant coating that could reflect most of the energy away from the metal and make the laser worthless at that point.

@panan7777

10 ай бұрын

@@Talishar SURE? Laser cuts mirror finish stainless sheet for me daily. They are pulsed at high frequency and power, so they strike with such force that mirror will not stop them. 50kw laser cuts metal inches thick. NOTHING can stop 500KW power output at several miles, already in testing . If the speed of cutting holes is indicator, they should be able to destroy 5-10 drones PER SECOND. Learn the tech then speculate.

@Talishar

10 ай бұрын

@@panan7777 I know the tech better than you. I'm literally in the industry trying to develop and deploy these systems. Your system that you have is a specially calibrated laser specific to your material. Initiating cuts has to be done extremely carefully as some of that energy is reflected outward and is a danger to everything around it until the metal starts to melt. Your aperture is also only a millimeter away from the material, not miles away. It's going to be fired in atmosphere and not vacuum so it'll incur serious amounts of loss going across distances. This video shows these systems being deployed on test drones and it still takes 10-15 seconds of focus to destroy the drone that's not setup to counter direct energy weapons at all. A missile that's designed to counter it will take far longer and then, to make it even more difficult to take out with a laser, they just need to make the missile roll while in flight so the laser can't focus on a single spot anymore which the U.S. already has such a missile and has had it for decades to counter IR/RF jamming. Many researchers are already pushing to put the focus on the much more sensitive seeker head on missiles or the electro optics of the drones as you don't have to physically burn those modules down in order to disable them.

@JamesGrim08

10 ай бұрын

@@Talishar Not to mention the power requirements need right? I've heard thats a large issue they still havent found a work around for. Would you say that is something they are any closer to resolving?

I'm just really scared that there will be a weapon system that identifies eyeballs and blinds them.

@The_Savage_Wombat

10 ай бұрын

Never open your eyes again

@CharChar2121

10 ай бұрын

​@@The_Savage_Wombatmhm. I suppose it's not like one couldn't wear laser goggles.

I’ve been calling it for a decade, man. About effin’ time.

Oh, Raytheon partnership. You are climbing the KZread ladder, Chris. :D

Don't be fooled DEW's have been around for over 30 years. They were used in Iraq in the first Gulf war

@damonstewart70

27 күн бұрын

Exactly they were used,there's EVIDENCE not theory but EVIDENCE that they took down the twin towers

@theArtOFjon

23 күн бұрын

Start fires

Things have come a long way since the Royal Navy first used lasers mounted on camera tripods to dazzle cameras on soviet Bear aircraft. If memory serves, it was on a Frigate sailing the North Sea back in the 70's and reported in Janes. The first recorded use of lasers in combat would be during the 1982 Falklands War,again by the British Royal Navy.

@gregoryvangaya8971

10 ай бұрын

Now Britain can't keep the lights on! Look how far you've come!.. We all need to achieve democracy in economics or we're all doomed. I'm a 7th generation Canadian of pretty well only British descent... When even our anglosphere is so degraded, we must do something!.. And making people who work the economy those who administrate and control it, is the main way through... Not war.

@dakoderii4221

10 ай бұрын

Impossible! People told me I'm a conspiracy nut for mentioning laser weapons. I just saw that in a movie. All the evidence of its existence isn't real if they say "I don't believe that" and then insult you. That's real science!

@mcdrogo

10 ай бұрын

gregoryvangaya8971 Eegit! I live in Ireland. I've just come back from UK. Have relatives that live in UK. They have no problems there with keeping the lights on, unlike France which had to draw off the UK, Swiss & Belgian grids last summer and winter to keep their lights on. A lot of our electricity is generated in the UK and we have had no problems. I appreciate that living in Trudeau's Canada that you suffer from a huge democratic deficit but don't assume that the UK, Ireland, NZ or Australia are suffering from the same deprivation of democracy. Oh and Gregory Vangaya sounds very British. You must be of the Highland MacVangaya's 😂🤣

@gen3kali877

10 ай бұрын

Lt. Cmdr. Mayo, USN attaché to the Royal Navy called it, “give ‘em the ol’ razzle dazzle.”

@kiwimark8533

10 ай бұрын

@gregoryvangaya8971 That has absolutely nothing to do with the comment, Tro11 They have come a long way since then. They are doing just fine; no better or no worse than anywhere else in Europe or the West. I've lived here for 27 years and love it. It's a great country. BTW every time I flip the light switch, you know what, the lights come on every single time. T w a t.

as always great vid

Very informative video....thank you.... Do you see this class of weapons being used against ground forces and in military aircraft instead of air to air missiles?

These could take out a whole island.

My best friend at the time worked for American Optical on the 747 laser prototype on the aiming system. So recently he mentioned he was working with a small private company developing the concept of not one technically difficult high powered beam but by using 4 achievable parallel beams, out of a quad-head, and the system tries to focus all 4 beams converging on the same spot so that the energy on target is of high enough level to do real damage. The cool thing about this is that can converge at a distant target and as the target approaches the convergent point adjusted to to stay on target. He was telling me it coukd be scaled up where you had a emitter head that could have up to twenty laser emitters stacked so the power could be dialed. Use 3 or 4 emitters for a repurposed hobby drone but use them all for something like a cruse missile

@iamscoutstfu

10 ай бұрын

What youre describing is how I perceive AEGIS equipped ships will function when engaging targets. They are always depicted as individually targeting objects. But I suspect that they will converge multiple beams on on target to reduce time-to-kill. This has implications for countering swarms where time spent on any one target is a precious commodity.

@georgehilario3544

10 ай бұрын

Stop lying

Yesterday a sponsored youtube video convinced me to sign up for Skillshare. Today's sponsored video just convinced me to purchase a 10kW Palletised Raytheon laser for my pick up truck.

How could you do this topic without a single mention of the navy. The USS Ponce was demonstrating laser weapons nearly about a decade ago.

The US Navy has already field tested a laser point-defense system, AN/SEQ-3 Laser Weapon System, on the USS Ponce and USS Portland. While it was run on low power (150 KW), it demonstrated its incredible effectiveness against drones, drone ships and aircraft. The system was designed to be scalable for use against a number of threats, from dazzling people, to shooting down planes. The system worked very well and newer, more powerful systems are being produced, while it is rumored that such systems are already produced. The threat of hypersonics, demonstrated as far overstated by their performance in the Ukraine War, is greatly diminished if one understands the practical applications of the laser systems the US has developed. It is something of a humorous happenstance when one considers the time, effort and PR the Russians have used to develop very limited hypersonics when the answer to them (if they worked as advertised), had already been developed by the US that is much cheaper than the costs the Russians sank into their overrated missiles. It is demonstrative of what happens when a nation cannot compete with another in terms of resources, and sinks its hopes in a couple revolutionary weapon systems... and expects that no one will adapt to them in the lead-up to functionality.

"Sponsored by Raytheon" !?! Bro, are you serious? This is You Tube. How did they even approach you to ask if you would do this video? I'm asking for some friends on Maui.

😯Didn't get your Name - but heck - a very good info/upload on Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation .

That's funny, Alex Hollings at Sandboxx just released a video titled "LASERS won't save you from hypersonic missiles" saying pretty much the opposite.

This is a very interesting topic and I enjoy your commentary but the sponsorship from Raytheon really muddied the waters in my opinion. I appreciate the transparency at least but it's hard to believe your analysis is objective with war profiters pay for your content. Raytheon isn't trying to sell these weapons to us, so we have to wonder what their motivation is in sponsoring this content. I'm not trying to be accusatory and I do understand that you need sponsors to continue your operation but I think you should consider how certain sponsors might hurt your credibility going forward.

@cedriceric9730

10 ай бұрын

They simply can afford it and if you're a fan of cappie why cant they?? American KZreadrs need support too because you bet americas enemies are doing much worse with theirs

@rgloria40

10 ай бұрын

US government as it stand are still using ambiguous and generalize language in their budget proposal still....PS...US Navy could use a military jet that can fly better than Mach 2....and can carry a duel laser/rail gun weapon system.

military grade 50kw laser vs a high quality heat resistant mirror. (who will win?)

This is a really nice commercial for Raytheon

Chris - your description of the path to the current state of the art was succinct and spot on - well done as always (I would say Sir, but wouldn't want to insult you that way).

Hello

Satellite DEW being tested on Maui

Dr. Evil would love this.

Answers the questions about the perfect circle around Maui. And the fire being hot enough to melt metal.

The Empire chose Hawaii as the location of their most recent demonstration.

I am just a 54 year old retired farmer in California but I love your show 😊

Partner with Raytheon or not, energy is THE solve-so-many-problems tech. Lasers are the defense application of that energy.

I love your videos, and I love the way you integrate your commentary with fact. The only thing that bothered me about this particular one, although you did at the beginning, announced that you were Sponsored by Raytheon, is that the only laser system that you mentioned was theirs. Generally, I’ve seen, you would mention more than one provider when you talk about weapon systems. Please keep up the good work, just my thoughts.

@dakaodo

10 ай бұрын

That's b/c this is a corporate PR piece by Raytheon, paid for by them to have Cappy present it with his usual brand and production values. See my separate comment above for things Cappy could not afford (literally) to do in this video.

@chairmanofthebored6860

10 ай бұрын

​@@dakaodoyep. I commented much the same. He's become a corporate shill by taking a Raytheon sponsorship. Every word he says from now on should be suspect.

@chairmanofthebored6860

10 ай бұрын

Both of our comments have mysteriously disappeared BTW. Except there's nothing mysterious about it.

@iamscoutstfu

10 ай бұрын

Neither of your comments disappeared. I can read them both.

@Bob_Adkins

10 ай бұрын

@@chairmanofthebored6860 Kids gotta eat, right? I'm sure there will be other, more generalized videos covering this subject.

Neat

Great sponsor! I might put some missiles on my motorcycle, just incase I'm involved in a road rage incident, or if the road is blocked.

When I rewound the intro because I thought you mispronounced Rayconn and realised you sad Raytheon 🤣🤣

@andrewwight6875

10 ай бұрын

I will help you out by following the sponsor link to procure defensive laser weaponry 😂😂🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

@andrewwight6875

10 ай бұрын

Awesome video by the way I remember as a kid in school thinking Ronald Reagan was awesome for planning to build mini deathstars in space to protect us from nuclear warheads

If LK99 proves to be a room temp & ambient pressure superconductor then lasers & anything electric will get a huge boost.

This channel is amazing....down to the ads now. Muuhhrrica strong, everything else = hey yo, it's WORSE than you think brahh

The future of war is terrifying, yet war always has been terrifying

The nightmare scenario is small cheap drones that drop those little mortars, where the drones use AI to navigate *and* choose targets (does it have a Z on it?) without “phoning home” so they can’t be jammed. For the price of these laser systems you could build 100s and saturate. Probably a good time to invest in a counter drone drone that hunts other drones autonomously. Like a 10 gauge with wings, camera and computer type cheap system. Oh lord the future is going to suck. I don’t think it would even be that hard.

@boblawblaw892

10 ай бұрын

I think more cheap and passive systems will arise out of this. All of the more expensive active countermeasures will still be there ,but the price and maintenance will reduce their effectiveness. I.e. (It's too expensive so, we will buy fewer of them) witch in turn makes them MORE expensive. But I'm interested in seeing how this developes.

@maksimfedoryak

10 ай бұрын

AI driven SPAAG with proximity charges will help

@macwizer

10 ай бұрын

FYI Lasers take power, a lot of power. That means heat and weight, nontrivial issues unless your mounted on a truck or ship

@timcheeseman2956

10 ай бұрын

Even better when the drones can drop artillery rounds

Nah, they will just change the nature of armor. Instead of (or in addition to) materials to protect against kinetic weapons, there will be a reflective or refractive surface, or coating that will render the lasers ineffective.

@toetagjeee

10 ай бұрын

And Power requirements. Lasers that cause harm chuuuug power.

@timcheeseman2956

10 ай бұрын

Just put disco balls on the outside of whatever you're trying to protect

@crownprincesebastianjohano7069

10 ай бұрын

And make them much easier to see on the ground. +s and -s to defend against one system, and make them more vulnerable to others.

Shout-out from Germany. Not average at all. Thanks a lot for the content.

Hadn't seen any Raytheon commercials until now...

Same technology that started the Maui fire

In your layered defense graphic - you're missing the Cost per Kill. And maybe the Gross Vehicle & Payload Weight. Those two factors are the interesting ones to determine position and coverage within the layered defense.

I like it, I can't wait to see how this ability is integrated into training, food for thought.

Totally made pew pew laser and explosion sounds in my head when watching this.

Besides rapid maneuvering, how do you counter an energy beam weapon? Create an instant cloud of dust?

@Sarnar9784

10 ай бұрын

Ceramics or mirrors would be my guess. Maybe something incorporating both.

@charlesmartin1121

10 ай бұрын

@@Sarnar9784 So maybe we are going to see modern combat aircraft in something like the bare metal finish of WWII US fighters and bombers?

@NotoriusMaximus

10 ай бұрын

Smoke/fog/dust

@Razgriz0ne

10 ай бұрын

@@Sarnar9784 I was thinking some sort of white ceramic like super white, whitest as you can get it infused with lead.

@Shinzon23

10 ай бұрын

Yes. It's sometimes called "sandcasters", in that it would dump some sort of particulate cloud between itself and the laser emitters, which would absorb the energy of the laser. There is also reactive armor that would interfere with the laser pulse, as well as heat absorbing paints and base metals

For the book readers amongst yer, Dale Brown (auther of 'Flight of the Old Dog') wrote a few fiction novels looking with a fairly expert eye at credible low orbit space weapons. I think the first in that series is *Starfire* He predicts parts of what Chris Cappy's talking about here

@gregewing3916

10 ай бұрын

Silver tower?

Gotta be a pretty cool feeling to say "my partner Raytheon". Hell of a partner/sponsor.

Good timing just before the maui and greece random wildfires

Dropped 4 days before Lahaina..

@dylankrepps2169

9 ай бұрын

NFW, Yeah lets show the people who's lives we destroyed who helpped fund this like the rest of America who will feel the effects from our traitorist government I need to get out of here this country has flipped to beyond crazy.

Please remember: If there are "Directed Energy Weapons" that fire from land to space, then there can also be those that fire from space to land.

@banto1

10 ай бұрын

Yes, MTG invented them.

@nton8057

10 ай бұрын

Hammer of dawn for everyone