India to have 'giant eyes' in the skies

[Devianz]

What a plan it is..use giant mirrors to blind something which is 70,000 feet away..

It will be atleast 400KMs away from enemy territory.
BTW any idea what it will be carrying, just surveillance cams or radars as well? Adding a radar can be highly useful provided its technically feasible.

 

[Devianz]

so in order to counter these eyes.. one has to shine a very strong light in these eyes...

in other words... mobile giant mirrors

Just use a bloody laser instead of resorting to medieval methods like mirrors. What will you do during night time?

 

[LEO99]

isn't spy satellite better option than these wearied ships ?

 

[saurabh]

isn't spy satellite better option than these wearied ships ?

Spy satellites can't monitor a single region for a long time. Their distance above ground would be very large. They cannot be placed at a position at will.

 

[seljuki]

Just use a bloody laser instead of resorting to medieval methods like mirrors. What will you do during night time?

Lasers are prone to blooming effects. besides that.. mirrors would be a passive weapon rather than actively targeting and hitting soomething with lasers.

mirrors will only take affect when the camera will be pointed on the border. at that moment india will go blind. they can keep the camera pointed at calcutta as long as they like but the moment they point a camera at the border, the reflected light will stealth everything.

 

[black flame]

dude what will u do in the night time will u use the flood lights or powerful torch light and there will be radars not just the camera infra red and night vision......... not just that there are military satellites there how will u blind it .............
> more over its at 21000 meters which is 21 km how big mirror will u install to blind the satellite if ur talking about the size of say few hectares then it will be a speck and will not have blinding effect instead it will show the HAA the enemy's exact location............... just as some one got lost in the desert use mirror to signal their presence to the search team.....
practically not feasible.................

 

[jha]

These ships will act as AWAC as well...A great force augmentation in my opinion..

 

[jha]

Lasers are prone to blooming effects. besides that.. mirrors would be a passive weapon rather than actively targeting and hitting soomething with lasers.

mirrors will only take affect when the camera will be pointed on the border. at that moment india will go blind. they can keep the camera pointed at calcutta as long as they like but the moment they point a camera at the border, the reflected light will stealth everything.

And who will tell you that camera is focusing right now on border...

 

[saurabh]

Lasers are prone to blooming effects. besides that.. mirrors would be a passive weapon rather than actively targeting and hitting soomething with lasers.

mirrors will only take affect when the camera will be pointed on the border. at that moment india will go blind. they can keep the camera pointed at calcutta as long as they like but the moment they point a camera at the border, the reflected light will stealth everything.

Light reflected from mirrors cannot keep its intensity for long distances, which lasers can. Laser intensity can be kept below blooming threshhold, yet can be high enough to blind an imaging setup.

 

[seljuki]

like i said before... dont need to blind it actively only passively.. the camera can look at kolkata all it wants.. but as soon as it is pointed at the border, it will be blinded.

nighttime is very easy. just reflect floodlights thru the mirrors again. the camera will go blind again.

as far as IR is concerned, real IR is very difficult to discern because it doesnot show people or things, it shows heat levels. any amount of light being reflected from the mirrors will also dissipate heat, showing a blanket of heat and disguising any troop or weapons movement.

UV is even harder to distinguish if u have ever seen a UV camera used by NASA.

the purpose here is passive weaponisation which will render the camera operational but ineffective.

 

[black flame]

Lasers are prone to blooming effects. besides that.. mirrors would be a passive weapon rather than actively targeting and hitting soomething with lasers.

mirrors will only take affect when the camera will be pointed on the border. at that moment india will go blind. they can keep the camera pointed at calcutta as long as they like but the moment they point a camera at the border, the reflected light will stealth everything.

if some one is flashing a mirror at me i would wear a rayban sunglasses and walk ........ well did u think about this counter measure

 

[seljuki]

Light reflected from mirrors cannot keep its intensity for long distances, which lasers can. Laser intensity can be kept below blooming threshhold, yet can be high enough to blind an imaging setup.

dont need intensity. its not a laser. we just need the light to shine back in the camera and make it ineffective. it will have enough intensity depending on the sheen and curvature of the mirrors. any time the camera is pointed at the border, it will be blind. i repeat ANYTIME because the mirror is a passive weapon.

 

[black flame]

like i said before... dont need to blind it actively only passively.. the camera can look at kolkata all it wants.. but as soon as it is pointed at the border, it will be blinded.

nighttime is very easy. just reflect floodlights thru the mirrors again. the camera will go blind again.

as far as IR is concerned, real IR is very difficult to discern because it doesnot show people or things, it shows heat levels. any amount of light being reflected from the mirrors will also dissipate heat, showing a blanket of heat and disguising any troop or weapons movement.

UV is even harder to distinguish if u have ever seen a UV camera used by NASA.

the purpose here is passive weaponisation which will render the camera operational but ineffective.

no offense....... did u study science in college......... say physics mathematics or something like that.................

if u have studied this u wouldn't be talking about cartoon stuffs this is not feasible dude just to install a solar heater which used for generation of power in spain cost them in billions then imagine about blinding the airship at 21000 meters do u know how will it be......... it is like a edge of a knife from a kilometer away................... now dont come up with sniper theory its just an example and more over to send such a quantity of light on to the space requires land............. huge land mass to install the mirrors.............. dude wake up...............

 

[seljuki]

dont need to intensify the light.. just need to blind the camera... it is easier because all one needs is ensure reflection. true the mirror would have to be big, but its not doing the job of a solar heator. it is doing the job of a mirror.. it doesnt need to generate electricity. it doesnot need to become high focused laser... it only needs to reflect light.

at above 20,000m, the camera will not see... it will need to zoom, upon that zooming it will see a bright white mass of light right in its face thereby discouraging the use of the camera at all.

 

[saurabh]

dont need intensity. its not a laser. we just need the light to shine back in the camera and make it ineffective. it will have enough intensity depending on the sheen and curvature of the mirrors. any time the camera is pointed at the border, it will be blind.

We use lasers because they are intense, not that intensity is needed in laser. Without intensity, you cannot blind a camera. Try a little experiment. Place a burning candle in an illuminated room and take its picture with a digi cam, from 10 ft distance. Now replace that candle with a strong flashlight directed towards camera. You would know the difference between laser and mirror.

i repeat ANYTIME because the mirror is a passive weapon.

Mirrors would have to move with camera/sun position. They may, at best, blind a very small spot, if any. So camera would have to be tracked continuously. It is not like you can place a light source and blind any camera placed anywhere.