The obvious defense against a laser attack like this would be to use a mirror. Just beam it right back at the attacker!

Depends on the power I guess. Typical affordable mirror is probably in the 90% - 95% reflectivity. If they pack a megawatt laser than your mirror will be absorbing between 100,000 to 50,000 watts.

Oh no. We only have precious minutes before a tiny portion of our boat is engulfed in flames. What should we do with all this water around us? derrrp. Give me my tax dollars back.

Oh Great, now we can burn everyone alive instead of blowing the boat up and drowning them all. Progress!

(impressive aiming tho)

Impractical. A few .50-cal rounds will destroy those motors instantly. Unlike a laser they won't be stopped by a smokescreen.

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>> ^deathcow:

Depends on the power I guess. Typical affordable mirror is probably in the 90% - 95% reflectivity. If they pack a megawatt laser than your mirror will be absorbing between 100,000 to 50,000 watts.


Not to mention that not all lasers are in the visible light spectrum. Infrared and ultraviolet lasers wouldn't be repeled by such means.

The choosey drug running pirate will select their mirrors for the optical weaponry they anticapte running into:

http://rmico.com/products/ir-mirrors

As for UV light, using a front surface mirror will reflect UV-A and UV-B. A typical mirror where light has to pass through glass on the way to the reflective surface will absorb UV-B but reflect UV-A.

They look like they can afford strong lasers. Even a % of that light cant be good for a mirror.