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Re:U.S. Air Force has shot down multiple air-launched missil... by onion2k on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @04:16AM (#19847479)
If you could make a flying retroreflector that looked like a missile you could get the plane to shoot itself down.
Re:U.S. Air Force has shot down multiple air-launched missil... by emiliobumachar on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @11:46AM (#19850573)
Insightful. But aiming back would be all kinds of hard. There's very little time before your contraption stops reflecting due to being burned by the unreflected portion of the initial beam.
Re:U.S. Air Force has shot down multiple air-launched missil... by aeternus on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @04:03PM (#19852945)
A retroreflector does not require aiming nor moving parts, it simply uses geometry to ensure that a lightbeam is always reflected back to its source. Retroreflectors are cheap to build and well-understood.

It is a very interesting idea, the reflectors likely will burn but you could cover the missile with them. You only need to reflect enough to disable/weaken the emitter.