Let's discuss about laser defense. I know there are lot of talks was. I will glad to hear why it shouldn't work anyway
What if the ship will spread around some kind of dust/gas/plasma, which have the same temperature as a ship itself. Can it build up some kind of protection against aiming system? In my point of view it can make a target more amorphous (in case when engine is off). And aiming system will not quiet sure where is actual ship is. It's true that if laser shoots at ship though this cloud it simply evaporate dust between. But can it misses?
There are some cons:
- dust expansion will lead to lose some of energy, so that dust apparently will lose target temperature and reveals a ship. It can be compensated with continuous spreading. So cloud will have keep expanding but at the center will be pretty much coherent.
- energy will degrade by radiation as well. But in this case it takes much more time. So we will not take it into account.
- third and most major - center of mass will always be at the ship. Unless we does not use some drones that is flying around and spreading this dust.
So what do you think, is that way can protect against laser aiming systems?