A Abrams can tank multiply hits without blowing up because it is so durable and its gun is not massively powerful in comparison. For the Death Star it is the opposite, it is just made out of conventional metals and would be destroyed. There are not counter measures to something this powerful.
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I'm not talking of games Abrams. In real life the Abrams is very very powerful. And can deflect or "absorb" [spoiler]the reactive explosive armor[/spoiler] multiple hits. Maybe the form itself of the death start was for the same reason
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Edited by Edcub One: 4/9/2016 5:44:01 PMBut it's armor is not that strong. It's just normal materials. Reactive armor won't do anything because the Death Star will blow up instantly.
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But again, even its spherical form was designed to lower the damage.
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It won't matter, the energy its dealing with will destroy it. It can mass scatter a planet 100 times its size.
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But the planet can reflect/deflect that energy?
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No, and nether can the Death Star, it's not just thermal energy they have to worry about. Once you get lasers that powerful the kinetic energy will be so immense that even if they can completely reflect the thermal energy (which they can't) they will still get destroyed.
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Kinetic?
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Lasers have kinetic energy, it's just that it usually doesn't matter because lasers in real life are to weak.
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Really? But it's light...
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It has momentum http://youtu.be/M-VZdJu0bLU