Comment by tnel77

Comment by tnel77 a day ago

Both your example and theirs would be better tests than a desert.

The desert is bad enough. On a hot day you get convection which will vary the refractive index of light and spread out the beam. I wonder if they have active optics on the transmitter to fight this.

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cap11235 a day ago

Then you also have the day vs night weather patterns, resulting in intense sun-downer winds. I suggest everyone actually visit a real desert once in their life, where as people seem to think its like a beach, but bigger.

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- PaulHoule a day ago
  
  Around Elephant Butte Lake which is quite close to WSMR [1], I remember those really strong winds around sunset.
  [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_Butte_Reservoir
  
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freeone3000 a day ago

The US is always geared up and ready to fight the previous war.

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sailfast 20 hours ago

Unless, you know, we often fight in deserts that are remote?

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tnel77 19 hours ago

This is a good point. I just meant that a very humid climate might be a more challenging environment for this technology, but it doesn’t mean it’s as useful for real world fighting conditions.

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