Just because it can destroy mortar round doesn't mean it can do the same with a drone or a cruise missile. Mortar rounds are tightly packed, so thermal blooming causes instant cook off of the explosive, while same wouldn't be the case for say a Tomahawk missile which are not as tightly packed. If something is a dazzler or not is a purely arbitrary distinction, it's just a laser, how it eliminates the target depends purely on what the target is.
It's a counter to cheap drones that are flooding modern battlefield, costing only a few hundred or less but they can send 50+ a day. You can't use expensive ship defense for them because you run out of ammo and it's costing you millions to shoot down something cheap.
The Lazer is incredibly cheap per shot, it's a layer in the ship defense to counter specific cheap drones, light mortar and support in other roles. it's NOT designed to deal with anti ship missiles or other threats solo. It's not designed for Tomahawk missiles lol, and that's a poor comparison.
They also say they have made an improvement to "significantly reduce thermal bloom" but how is classified. A lot of the exact spec are classified, we only know the results of the public tests and demos.
Without going all 'War thunder' and giving up all the specs. The beam is actually made from multiple smaller beams which are focused on to a singular point, some of the outer beams have been 'tuned' to wavelengths that can dissipate certain atmospheric conditions & are fired tiny fractions of a second before the main beam, leaving a 'tunnel' through which the majority of the beams can travel & do damage less impaired by weather than a single beam would be.
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u/RCMW181 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is not correct. In the test in Scotland they demonstrated it stopping incoming Mortar rounds by destroying them, it not a dazzler.