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by dredmorbius 4479 days ago
Or heat its skin.

A laser defense weapon, coupled with the black titanium skin, likely already close to its thermal limits, might produce results of interest to a defender.

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In the meantime, its going to take a lot of time and money to develop those weapons as well. I mean, you're talking about hypothetical countermeasures that don't even exist as a solid concept yet.
Not entirely true. LAWS has been in active tests and is, I believe, being deployed now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBDF0Tm0kuY

True, but we have 16 years to figure it out.