https://x.com/ItayBlumental/status/1927742712788242791 (machine tranlsated) – At the end of October 24, the Air Force succeeded in intercepting 4 Hezbollah drones for the first time using the "Iron Blade" system – a scaled-down version of the "Iron Beam" with a power of 30 watts (Iron Beam 100 watts) developed by Defense Industries and Rafael. Since then, more drones have been intercepted.





by RoyU16

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  2. This war has really advanced weapons technology. If you’d have told me in 2020 that by 2025 wars are being fought with drones and lasers I don’t think I’d have believed you.

  4. 30 kwatts is literally nothing compared to the cost of an interceptor rocket. incredible

  5. Air Defence where each interception costs literal peanuts

  6. That’s insane. Imagine what the US has been cooking up in secret…

  7. Well that was cool, wonder if the UK’s dragon fire works the same way, meant to cost £10 a shot , this will completely change AD

  8. These drones look similar to the ones used by Pakistan against India recently. Are they Turkish too?

  9. I wonder how long they had to focus on that wing. If they’d shown the entire engagement from start to finish I would be more impressed.

  10. Insanely cool, I can see two emmeditely issues with this though – First is it’s pretty slow, seems like for now this system can only intercept slow moving drones, I guess a more advanced laser is being developed for missile interception. The other issuing being that unlike a rocket, these done explode the drone, so would the disabled drone just kinda spiral and likely hit something in Israel? I assume this isn’t intercepting over Lebanon is it?

  11. Someone should really let Marjorie taylor-geeene know, she was “right” all along.

  17. I think it’s not working against high albedo material. So, just easy to wrap drone in foil…

  19. Energy output just doesn’t seem high enough to take down a swarm.

    Can this work in the long term?

    Also, can’t wait to see the maritime applications – shark mounted, of course 🙂

  20. That it is able to track a vehicle spiraling from loss of control and keep the target at the center of the image is amazing. Can see the red reticle tracking the main fuselage as it falls and the resulting laser burn on the fuselage. The visual system (x) and the laser tracking systems (+) are both very good.

  21. This will significantly reduce cost when dealing with a drones,

  23. Always wondered if they just like wrapped it in reflective chrome coating wouldn’t the lasers just reflect off? 🤔

  26. Is this the first kill in military history by a laser system?

  28. Awesome tech. I hope Ukraine gets that stuff too sometime soon.

  29. 30 watts really does not seem like a whole lot of energy for a laser.

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