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Everybody knows about drones and probably knows about Lasers being the great hope in combating them. Every country is working on them. The pic is off an Australian offering.

This little beauty comes stock standard with a 100 KW laser but can be optioned up to 150 KW. It is rated at 20 drones per minute but could be 30 with the 150KW option. It's range is 3 KM for a drone kill but can dazzle sensors at 8KM

I was listening to a podcast which suggested China would probably use paratroopers initially on Taiwan then use amphibious landings.

It is an obvious thought to think why not laser paratroopers as they float down? Below this laser is a flat plain. Why not pick off enemy paratroopers on the plain as well?

According to Google a 10 KW laser can kill a person and fully option this bad boy is 15 times higher. It probably doesn't pro rata but that could be 15x30 = 450 soldiers per minute. Useful.

Also according to Google, 5 mW permanently blinds people. 5mW/150KW = 30 micro seconds per shot. Your ability to disable enemy troops is only limited by how fast you can point the laser at the paratroopers eyes because it would blind them very quickly.

The key point is a purely defensive drone laser could be an extremely good offensive weapon.

I imagine if a laser is to kill an enemy combatant it will have to burn a hole into the heart, lung or brain. That could hurt. To blind probably hurts less but it leaves the enemy combatant permanently incapacitated.

I'm interested on what people think the ethics of Direct Energy Weapons fire on people are. I think if it can be done it will be done especially when it is an existential threat.

What do people think the ethics are? Multi choice can't cover it. So put it in the comments.

Trump will get 0% interest rates as soon as Powell is gone Inflation will sore. It is coming Folks if not - 0% rates. We can only hope that Democrats can block Trumps Fed Nominee.

So there's a speed dating event happening near where i live in a couple weeks and i may go ahead and try it out.

But in the meantime i may as well ask if people here have tried this and how your experience went? Also did you score any real dates while you did it? how far did those go?

For those that don't know how this works: Speed dating works by having participants engage in a series of short, timed conversations with different people, typically for 3 to 6 minutes each. After each round, a signal like a bell is rung, and participants either move to a new person (often by rotating seats) or the other person does. Afterward, individuals privately indicate which people they are interested in meeting again. If there is a mutual match, the event organizers will share their contact information.