Re:U.S. Air Force has shot down multiple air-launched missil...
by emiliobumachar on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @11:46AM
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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.
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Re:U.S. Air Force has shot down multiple air-launched missil...
by aeternus on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @04:03PM
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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.