Mirrors melt and break when hit with a laser of more than “pretty lights power”.
This dude built a 2kW one with optics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNmbvaUzC8Q
mirror at ~ 4:30
EDIT: I know where I am, that video is too good not to share though. Vote away.
I rarely give my time to videos that long, but it was awesome for the full half hour. That guy’s having fun. Thanks for sharing.
Nah. This doesn’t count because that guy is clearly from the future when you can buy a 1K laser at the corner store. In 2024, they are a little bit harder to come by.
Back to the future.
1955 Doc Brown on plutonium availability:
If you fire a laser against a mirror, it bounces but raises the heat of the mirror so you end up melting the mirror and destroying the drone.
But the drone stays in the air by making wind, which would cool down the mirror?
In all seriousness, wavelength-specific dielectric mirrors can approach six nines of reflectivity.
The hard part is hitting the mirror instead of the drone.
Not stupid just single track minded. Doing as told with no deviation. The stupid ones are the officers driving the r&d battalions
Buddy called inverse-square law
Inverse square law is just a geometric limitation, focus your lasers more, problem solved.
the tank is confused by its own reflection and attempts to fight itself