How does a laser guided bomb or missle hit where the laser is pointed and not the path of the laser or the guy holding the designator-thingie?
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Lasers don’t work how hollywood shows them
For the most part, unless its really dusty or smoky you will not see the beam of a visible light laser. You will only see it once it hits something and scatters.
The laser guided missile doesn’t hit the guy because the laser is a very narrow beam so unless he has the laser pointed right at the missile it can’t see the laser he’s holding. Similarly it won’t hit somewhere randomly along the path because there’s nothing significant bouncing the laser back up to it
It will head towards the target because the laser is hitting something a bit rough which is causing the laser light to scatter in all directions from that point and now some will make it to the sensor.
If it is really smoky then the laser can get scattered and cause the weapon to miss the target. Vehicles come with special smoke generators to be able to disrupt various frequencies of laser with their smoke
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