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by somesortofthing
1616 days ago
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It could bounce back from a reflective surface somehow and hit a cockpit or cabin window, though you'd need to be flying really low or at an unreasonably steep angle to be concerned about that. They're probably just trying to cover all possible bases though. |
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Civilians always think of ECM and jamming like a smooth omnidirectional output, yet it seems to me pretty obvious a kaleidoscope like randomish distribution would work much better as a jammer, so they have to assume that 0.00001% of the time the entire laser beam might hit water and reflect right back into their eyes. I suppose a REALLY smart AI controlled jammer could actively control its jamming signal to never output power in a direction that would reflect back at the plane, which would probably shimmer at like 10000 Hz as the plane wiggles thru the sky, so on average the plane would be well protected.
You know its a REALLY bad neighborhood if they try stealth technology to defeat incoming radar guided missiles. That's really hard core air transport operations.
Kind of makes you wonder if "ufo sightings" aren't air force stealth air transport vehicles. AFAIK there are no unclassified stealth air transport vehicles, but you'd think that would be terribly useful if you don't have total air superiority so either us or the Russians must have at least blueprints somewhere for something like a B-2 that can carry people and/or a tank or two. Or maybe fedex will restart the B-2 production line...