https://x.com/JustXAshton/status/1886419334337056805
USS Preble firing a HELIOS laser weapon. pic.twitter.com/z7iLk0uylt
— Ashton Forbes (@JustXAshton) February 3, 2025
The US Navy released a new photo of USS Preble (DDG-88) firing her HELIOS laser weapon. pic.twitter.com/oL4rMsA4Xu
β OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) February 3, 2025
Source (page 399)- https://t.co/wHOW2JHGcr pic.twitter.com/gVHzdkgEQa
β OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) February 3, 2025
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Is this anti-missile or something? Can't imagine a beam weapon being useful for anything outside immediate vicinity
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Missilogny
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It's for burning really, really big ants.
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The EDF is here!
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*everything explodes*
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I presume it's anti drone prototypes as Ukrainian war demonstrates that Russia and Iran cheaper drones bombs would time and again overwhelm expensive yank counter measures and interceptor missiles,
Which is why Russia kept aiming at civilians all this time to exhaust Ukrainians anti-aircraft missile systems and ordinance
Drones Vs drones warfare also reignited the combat theory in whether lasers, which would be useless against fast super sonic ICBM missiles, could still be a feasible counter measure against slower Iranian suicide drones, which have fragile enough chips and computer components which even a moderately meagre hot laser could feasibly disable
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Russia's Navy has seen massive trouble from Ukraine's naval drones. Lasers would be massively helpful in repelling these attacks.
This and EW (which Russia is really strong at) would be the most useful defensive cowtools due too fiber optics not being the most fit for saltwater operations.
long live the ccp
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Yeah they're meant to be anti-UAS, anti-supersonic missiles, and last fall they started testing its anti-ship missile response.
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Its going to melt/blind people pointing lasers at planes.
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That's what the picture looks like
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Oh I haven't looked at any of the links besides the first one. I'm also like 99% sure that this is the case so the question wasn't genuine but rather to flex my intellect
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God I wish they would shoot this at my head
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I wish they'd shoot it at your head too
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Darn that's a lot of sidelobe.
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Almost there.
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What's this?
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Footage of the space battleship yamato fleet engaging just off arcturus, keeping us all safe from the aliens for another day
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Legend of the Galactic Heroes fans eating good this year!
!anime
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Is the new series any good? I hate that some characters got fujo'd.
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I never watched the new series
!1337 !anime animetopia let the common peasantry DESTROY OUR MONUMENT OF GODHOOD 
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Where that from?
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It is footage of the US Space Force, which is a real actual branch of the US Military that protects us from space
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The future!
(I have no idea)
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I love backronyms.
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Come get blasted by my Super Powerful Optimised Overkill badGuy Eliminator CANNON
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it's often a good thing for when you get an abominable name like Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS).
Land Attack Cruise Missile is already an acronym (LACM), and forms the L in JLENS, meaning that it's an acronym embedded in another acronym. They only used one S I guess, idk.
!firearms
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now point it at israel!
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No Israel points them at you from space
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Their lasers can't shoot down drones, just start wildfires
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Maybe people talk about the dumb shit their government is doing in secret and we don't have to call them schizos for doing so?
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The US Navy hates this one weird trick!
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Hahahahaha how the frick are lasers real hahaha neighbor just close your eyes
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Mirror armor doesn't work against lasers irl btw
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Explain this chuds
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What's going on?
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Yea it does
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"M-mirror armour doesn't work against lasers you guys honest, plz don't hold up a $5 mirror" ~The guy who just spent $30bn on a laser cannon
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Please don't though
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It doesn't?
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Like if it theoretically reflects everything 100% sure but in practice what happens is there's some tiny imperfection on the mirror (or some dust or dirt from the atmosphere). The laser then heats up the imperfection, which degrades the mirror even more so it absorbs even more energy, etc.
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Well it works for a few milliseconds.
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But the US Navy is anti-chud?
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But I didn't replay that
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Factcheck: This claim has been confirmed as correct by experts.
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instead of operating during a full moon like in WW2, futurewar drones will operate when its cloudy
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Sure but then they're either so high that they can't do anything/see anything themselves
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Neat!
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I was told that military lasers is crazy and youre a
if you say otherwise
https://rdrama.net/h/maxn/post/322302/marseyschizowall-rumors-abound-that-israel-marseysaluteisrael
https://rdrama.net/h/maxn/post/326497/ukraine-marseyazov2-unveils-new-laserweapon-laserbeam
!slots200
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Military lazers have been around for a while tho
Mostly anti-missile shit
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lol, i 'member that
at one point you claimed that the IDF has handheld lazers that make bodies fricking disappear
believing that makes you pretty much the most r-slurred BIPOC jewish chad strag on this entire site
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i didnt claim that, and the link to the thread is right there, straggΓ²t
!slots100
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now you're a liar on top of all the other slurs
you're the guy leftoids get to point to when they tell normies that everyone to the left of chomsky is a schizo with a 75 iq. you make their propaganda believable to normies and hurt the right more than any stupid shit DDR does.
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lol, way to poorly take my comment out of context. That comment was mere speculation about what they and other advanced nation states, might have. Not what they do have. Lol, you call.me dumb ,butt this is hoe you argue.
why would I care about hurting the right?
Im not a tribalist straggΕt like you
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Because you posted it in semi bad faith
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!slots111
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I don't get it
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I still don't get it
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It was r-slurred to think that a satellite 23 miles up in the sky had enough power to pull it off.
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Who brought up a sattalite? Did you watch the video in this thread?
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before: this is an idiotic conspiracy theory. why are you talking about this? you must be of low social status!
after: this has always been obvious, it's old news. why are you talking about this? you must be of low social status!
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!schizomaxxxers get his butt
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Snapshots:
https://x.com/JustXAshton/status/1886419334337056805:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
https://armyrecognition.com/news/navy-news/2025/us-navy-transforms-naval-protection-with-helios-lasers-power-on-uss-preble-at-sea:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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