Is Russia playing with airborne lasers again? A-60 ABL system

originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: BigDave-AR

We have too many SBIRS in a dispersed network that would detect the launch for them to be able to blind them all simultaneously.

I suppose it was just my paranoia flairing up, now you have me off looking at available info on the SBIRS thanks Zaph I’ll now be up another couple hours running down that rabbit hole. I’m also getting more into looking at the Soviet space based weaponary like with the SKIF space based laser, it blows my mind that they would vent CO2 from the chemical laser out the opposite end of the trajectory of the laser to compensate for “recoil”. Recoil for a laser system who’d a thunk?!?! I’m still trying to wrap my exhausted mind around that one.