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  • Yes, and that’s literally where power comes in. The more powerful the laser, the further it stays coherent

    Yes that’s true but the power requirement (not to mention cooling) exponentially increases the further the object is because of the light spreading. The amount of burst power and light density needed for a long-range laser is bonkers and making it go further will requires exponential bonkers.

    This is why they frequently fire them using pulses but even then getting them to destroy objects at a very long distance gets harder and harder the further the object is. If the drone flies near a laser then it works wonders. If the drone flies around the area laser then it’s not much more effective than simple airshot munition.

    I checked the article but didn’t see a video in it so I’m not sure what the laser managed to do here.

    Just because the reich can’t do something, doesn’t mean it’s not possible.

    Maybe it is, but unless this interception was very long range they haven’t found the magical bullet yet and it isn’t much of an improvement over air-burst ammunition or interception drones.




  • It’s not about power efficiency. Lasers require focussing a lot of light at one certain point. But the further the distance the more the light spreads. That’s just physics. Communicating with lasers isn’t the same as burning stuff with them.

    Lasers are also utterly doomed when the sky isn’t clear because mist and clouds can fracture the concentrated light

    As for intercepting missiles: If you’ve seen the speed at which hypersonic missiles come down you’ll find a laser doesn’t have much time to burn it.

    Israel has been bragging about their epic laser tech for multiple years now yet they’re still firing interceptors. A laser might be able to defend one single static target in a 1km range from drones but not a whole border. And swarm tactics can still overwhelm the laser and just destroy it








  • this does not justify a military intervention in the country.

    But it does. That’s why these lies are done. To justify the military intervention.

    This is similar to the 40 beheaded babies and Hamas raped women hoaxes. Western propaganda makes up false stories because the real stories aren’t sobby enough (and the US is basically doing worse to black people on a daily basis). Then when the truth eventually comes out people have already internalized the propaganda.

    Sure Iran has its problems but there’s a reason why writers need to make up stories to really get the demonization going. Recently we had the US-backed terrorist attacks in Iran during the protests where Iranian think tanks made up crazier and crazier numbers of casualties to justify US imperialism.

    The latest US economic sanctions are actual mass terror against Iranian civilians but we’re not going to get any Guardian sob stories over that


  • Between 2013 and 2014, he also worked with IranWire.

    Just FIY almost every English site with 'Iran" in its title are paid US propaganda think thanks. Iranwire is no exception. Just pure US propaganda slop of people making up stuff and the medium publishing everything uncritically.

    Of course they have to write some bad excuse of why he returned and came clean. The biggest problem with Iranwire is this part from TheCanaray’s article.

    But she (Mina Ahadi) has posted a screenshot of Deghani’s confession. In the accompanying caption, she says that Deghani had already confessed to her in 2010, and that he had begged her not to expose him in case he was sacked and sent back to Iran.

    Which means even the accomplice says he CONFIRMED to have been lying all the way back in 2010 but he was afraid to be thrown away by the US propaganda machine and sent back to Iran if she outed him (at least that’s the excuse)