🚁🔦 Engineers at PowerLight Technologies have created a system that recharges #drones in mid-air using high-powered #lasers. A ground-based transmitter tracks the drone and beams kilowatt-scale #energy to a small receiver, which converts the light into electricity to keep it flying indefinitely.
#robotics #engineering #technology #innovation #science #physics #stem
Some #science next with a look at MorphoChrome, a programmable iridescence layer which is defined in software then "printed" onto a holographic transfer using a handheld RGB laser doohicky.
Growing efficiencies of near-infrared #lasers make them preferable over #microwaves, allowing the transmission antenna on the spacecraft to be scaled down from hundreds of meters across to about half a meter 📏. #OverviewEnergy successfully tested a system that transmitted “multiple thousands of watts” of power using a near-infrared laser from an aircraft flying at an altitude of 5,000 meters to a receiver on the ground https://spacenews.com/overview-energy-demonstrates-technologies-for-space-solar-power/
#PlaneAlert ICAO: #A5E7C9 Tail: #N48RT
Owner: #RaytheonSystems
Aircraft: #Gulfstream G600
2025-12-09 13:13:21 CET
#GA6C #ArmsCompany #Security #Lasers https://www.raytheon.com/uk
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#PlaneAlert ICAO: #A5E7C9 Tail: #N48RT Flt: #N48RT
Owner: #RaytheonSystems
Aircraft: #Gulfstream G600
2025-12-05 08:04:00 CET
#GA6C #ArmsCompany #Security #Lasers https://www.raytheon.com/uk
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=A5E7C9&zoom=7&lat=51.278221&lon=8.658600×tamp=1764918240&showTrace=2025-12-05
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Perhaps, for once, this nation could not slavishly hand over it's new technology to the United States and onsteads tell them to go fuck themselves if they want our pew-pew anti-drone laser.
Same for Israel too, dear fuck that doesn't need explaining....
I'm sure someone depraved enough will make an offensive weapon of this but for now this looks defensive, and just what poor Ukraine needs.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/dragonfire-laser-shoots-down-high-144841486.html
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced that the high‑power laser system DragonFire successfully shot down drones travelling at speeds up to 650 km/h ...
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