Blasting the Air in Front of Hypersonic Vehicles with Lasers Reduces Drag (2020)

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by delichon

4 Comments

altairprime

6 hours ago

I researched plasma drag reduction for normal vehicles at one point and the primary issue is that it just costs too much power (disregarding that it slightly ionizes the paint job). I did not, however, consider using short-burst lasers beams on their (fricking) headlamps. Added to the ‘not street legal, pending cheap+sufficient supercapacitor storage’ wishlist :)

conorcleary

9 hours ago

You've seen bright LED high beams, but wait until laser wiper deckout kits are available on eBay

SethTro

7 hours ago

From 2020.

Love the optimism that AGM-183A Would be in production in 2022.

Narrator: they would not.

user

6 hours ago

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