A couple of random comments,

A human eye at a distance of 1000 metres represents an angular error of aprox 1 in 10000. In current military hardware its VERY unlikley that a gun mount or radar that could track to that accuracy. Artillary not usually requiring an angular accuracy of greater then around 1 in 1 or 2000.

Becasue of radar's inabilty track any flying target very acurately nearly all current anti aircraft use blast fragmentation warheads using proximity fusing. These do NOT need to hit a target, the war head on detonating throwing out thousands of pieces of shrapnel in all directions.

Any laser weapon would be a line of site weapon and would be in a position where they would be seen, very likley making them EXTREMELY vulnerable to artillary.

Nearly all ground attack is these days done by helicopters, due to the amount of fire power infantary now have, these aircraft operate via stealth. There siting systems being usually above the rotar so any target can be sited and attacked from behind cover, such an aircraft would not be vulnerable to lasers.

Unlike normal weapons its relatively easy to develop excellent shielding systems to any light driven weapon systems simply using reflective material.

LIndsay
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