What If We Replace Guns and Bullets with Bows and Arrows?

Re:What If We Replace Guns and Bullets with Bows and Arrows? by pixl97 on Friday November 10, 2023 @11:59AM (#38221258)

Of course if we were advanced enough to have laser weapons in WWII, we'd likely have laser guided bombs, hence laser guided planes which would have made any attacks against ships more deadly.

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Re:What If We Replace Guns and Bullets with Bows and Arrows? by YurgenJurgensen on Friday November 10, 2023 @12:24PM (#38221630)

I'm not sure laser guidance works how you think it works. The laser is probably the least important part of laser guidance. It's basically being used as a highly collimated and monochromatic photon source. Radio-guided weapons were already being deployed by the end of WWII. The presence of lasers which probably could have been invented with 1940s tech had priorities been different, wouldn't really have drastically changed much. Semiconductors and microelectronics are what enabled practical laser-guided weapons, by reducing the size, fragility and cost of guidance packages.

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Re:What If We Replace Guns and Bullets with Bows and Arrows? by pixl97 on Friday November 10, 2023 @02:36PM (#38223463)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbTWzC86R4Y

The Device that Won WW2 - The Cavity Magnetron

Yea, the fact the US/Britain had RADAR while Germany/Japan did not, or did not in the same fashion the allied forces did dramatically shifted the favor towards the allies.

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