Are there any laser based defense projects going on in Pakistan? Turkey has some prototypes that can down uavs as I know of. China also possibly has these systems.
A blimp radar to detect incoming low flying cruise missiles from far away coupled with a laser defence system can do the job. You can test them on babur type of subsonic missiles.
Hypersonic missiles are designed to overcome boundary heat issues because of speed. Slightly more heating of the airframe can result in destruction of the missile.
There is also this one. Blasting the front of the missile would ionise the air and missile can miss the target.
You can also use radio waves to ionise air. That is a second option using an aesa-like system with transmitters only which can engage multiple targets simultaneously. Another advantage over laser of such a system is there is no need for continious mechanical steering which can be difficult against mach 5 + hypersonic target.
There should be at least 2 microwave sources-aesa radars . At their intersection point of the beams the air on the course of the coming missile can be ionised if the energy is strong enough. Some sources say plasmoids-air ionisation can be generated by high power microwaves but the phenomennon needs to be experimented though.
A blimp radar to detect incoming low flying cruise missiles from far away coupled with a laser defence system can do the job. You can test them on babur type of subsonic missiles.
Hypersonic missiles are designed to overcome boundary heat issues because of speed. Slightly more heating of the airframe can result in destruction of the missile.
There is also this one. Blasting the front of the missile would ionise the air and missile can miss the target.
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You can also use radio waves to ionise air. That is a second option using an aesa-like system with transmitters only which can engage multiple targets simultaneously. Another advantage over laser of such a system is there is no need for continious mechanical steering which can be difficult against mach 5 + hypersonic target.
There should be at least 2 microwave sources-aesa radars . At their intersection point of the beams the air on the course of the coming missile can be ionised if the energy is strong enough. Some sources say plasmoids-air ionisation can be generated by high power microwaves but the phenomennon needs to be experimented though.
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