I'm sorry, A1b, you have completely changed your argument and confused two technologies. You started with ridiculing LO:
Originally Posted by a1bill
it was just that I think LO excelled himself. We can always rely on LO in his use of sublimation with anything associated with the F-35. To say "The problem is that the "next" l@ser - >150 kW and <3,500 lbs - won't fit, and by the time we get to the l@ser-after-next (fractional-megawatt and <2,000 lbs) the nature of air combat will have changed dramatically." has to be one of the classics and deserved a special mention.
You have conveniently moved from megawatt class lasers to DIRCM and some other Aussie laser technology that is "on the net", offering a link to
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...or-jsf-204809/ , which is now in-use laser IR self-protection. Nemesis.
I'm done on this one, on the grounds that you are spouting rubbish and you do not understand the subject matter.