The user determines the purpose of lasers and rockets.

"Illustration of China's groundbreaking portable laser weapon operating in extreme temperatures. Image generated by AI." (Sustainability Times, “China Stuns the World Again”: New 2.47kW Portable Laser Works in Arctic Cold and Blistering Saharan Heat)

New Chinese laser weapons can operate from arctic cold to Sahara heat. The portable 2,47 kW laser system can be used against vehicles, robots, and other military personnel. The same system can also be used to cut electric wires and cut steelworks. And that is the true advance in laser weapon development. The laser weapon can use electric systems to create light. But it is also possible to use things like acetylene lamps for that purpose. The laser weapon can also use the laser-LEDs. That pumps energy to laser rays that travel between them. 

That kind of system allows developers to make new types of weapons. Or weaponized applications. The laser weapon can operate also at orbital, where even small laser weapons can cause damage to satellites and space suits. 

Illustration of the HQ-29 missile defense system in action. Image generated by AI. (Sustainability Times, “China Prepares for War in Space”: HQ-29 Missile System Can Destroy Satellites and Ballistic Threats Mid-Air)

Another interesting thing is that the Chinese created a new HQ-29 missile system that can be used in anti-ballistic missile, ABM, and anti-satellite, ASAT roles. Those missiles tell that China is prepared for space warfare. But the fact is that all rockets that can carry satellites or any payload to orbiter can operate as space weapons. The critical thing is the miniature satellites that can shoot even hundreds in one launch.

Heavy booster rockets can transport those miniature satellites to orbit. And when command centers give orders, those satellites will impact other satellites. Miniature satellites that use advanced AI can also dive against incoming ASAT weapons. Those satellites can operate in other missions, and when time is up they can begin their attack procedures. 

"Illustration of a solar-powered drone with a wingspan larger than a Boeing 747 designed for month-long flights. Image generated by AI." (Sustainability Times, “We Built This to Fly Forever”: Engineers Unveil Solar Drone With 224-Foot Wingspan Capable of Month-Long Flights)

The miniature satellite can recognize the target using similar technology that Javelin missiles use. The satellite recognizes its target by using the image. And if those systems are shot to high-orbiter using the heavy booster, they can attack against their targets from the higher altitudes. There is an attack variant where the small satellite pulls the large-size trawl that it uses to put satellites following it. And then that satellite just dives into the atmosphere, pulling the target satellite behind it. 

Things like solar-powered aircraft that can rise about 30 km high can transport small airborne launching vehicles to the edge of space. Then those small satellite carriers like Pegasus can transport satellites to the low earth orbiter. The Pegasus-type launching vehicles can also transport ASAT and ABM weapons. After launch the unmanned launching aircraft can return home. The new solar-powered aircraft whose wingspan is the same as Helios can make this thing. The problem with Helios was that its wings were not stiff enough. So that caused a crash. The wingspan of that new system is the same as the C-5 Galaxy. And it should rise at least 29 km altitude. 

https://www.sustainability-times.com/impact/china-prepares-for-war-in-space-hq-29-missile-system-can-destroy-satellites-and-ballistic-threats-mid-air/

https://www.sustainability-times.com/impact/china-stuns-the-world-again-new-2-47kw-portable-laser-works-in-arctic-cold-and-blistering-saharan-heat/

https://www.sustainability-times.com/energy/we-built-this-to-fly-forever-engineers-unveil-solar-drone-with-224-foot-wingspan-capable-of-month-long-flights/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroVironment_Helios_Prototype

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_Pegasus

Vimanas part II (Advanced flying)

Kimmo Huosionmaa

I just thought that could Vimana just be an ancient heat air balloon?  If the balloon is big enough it can raise even very large objects from the ground, and even if modern days the regulations and rules are made about this kind of vehicles before aircraft were not air-traffic regulations. The thing would be very easy to create, and it is actually the tubes, what are blowing air under the parachute or inside the oil-canvas balloon. This is one version of the hot-air balloon, and if the parachute would be over the Vimana, the air, what rises to capillary tubes might give enough power to rise that device from the ground.

And if the fire burns below the tubes, would they increase the flow of the heated air, what makes possible to raise the hot-air balloon faster and higher than in regular burning.  In fact, we must not think conventional things, when we are thinking about the flight, and one way to think that thig is that rocket motor can actually pull the thing upwards.

If the canvas of pulling chute is made by the fire-resistant material like asbestos, this opposite operating rocket motor would make Vimanas true. This kind of system would allow hanging the module in the sky, and then fly the craft to space. The limit of the normal heat-air balloon is caused because of the gas in the burner would not burn in low-level oxygen and low air pressure. But if the torch would use oxygenized, would it rise the module in very high altitude.

The idea of the opposite operating rocket motor bases in the same idea, that the normal torch or gas burner would be replaced by using rocket motor or oxygenized version of the gas burner. In this theoretical spacecraft, the motor would not make a thrust at all. It would just push the exhaust gas to the parachute-style sail, what would pull the craft to the sky. And in some futuristic versions, the antimatter engine would pump the antimatter ions to the metal plate, what is forward of the spaceship, and the particles of the annihilation will drive the spaceship forward. Sometimes is planned to make fusion motor, what burns artificial sun or make nuclear detonation between spaceships and giant sail. This sail is in very far away from the spacecraft.

This sail will be actually the one version of a solar sail, and in the begin of the journey, it can use the solar wind to accelerate the ship, but later it would transform to use the active source for the particles. And this source can be the particle accelerator, what would drive the spacecraft forward. This system can launch the ions to that sail, and cause that the journey can continue outside our solar system. Little bit more conventional versions to the plate will target the electron-ray what will work like the annihilation, but the punch will be more gently.  The shield would make the weak thrust of the electron accelerator motor more powerful. The electron accelerating motor is one version of the ion motors.  But this system would not need particles, what comes from the sun to the journey.

Those oxygenized torches can actually rise this kind of device very high altitude, and if there is horizontal propels around it, this device could travel through the air, because the air turbines can rotate those propellers by using cogwheels, and this would make possible to flight that device to the horizontal direction. There are also some other ways to make this very interesting thing real in the real world. One is just connecting the capillary tubes to the propellers of the regular airship, and that allows the small size airship fly in extreme long trips. This system would be very useful in intelligence and other versions of the airship.