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The U.S. Navy plans to accelerate the deployment of high-energy Laser Engraver weapons

Reported by michale | January 14th, 2017 @ 08:07 AM

The contract, which aims to allow Britain's first high power laser pointer weapon to enter service by the mid-2020s.Air Force drones will one day fire high-tech laser weapons to destroy high-value targets.Laser weapons allow for an alternative method of destroying targets, rapid succession of fire.Although firing lasers from drones is expected to be more complicated than arming fighter jets or aircraft with lasers.

Lasers have been around since the 1960s, and there have been decades and hundreds of millions of dollars invested into high power laser pointer technology.Since then, the Navy Laser Weapon System (LaWS) has been installed on the USS Ponce operating in the Persian Gulf.European defense companies to produce a prototype laser that could track and target incoming targets.A group of scientists and engineers in the laser community.It draws on innovative research into high-power lasers.

Once again, the Pentagon is reaching out to all its favorite contractors and asking them to build it a flying green laser pointer gun.Still needed are a "beam control" unit to accurately aim and target the laser.Northrop Grumman was selected to develop the laser beam director turret for this high energy laser weapons system.A laser beam is the ultimate cheap kill, in many ways.
Air Force leaders have said that the service plans to begin firing green laser pointer weapons from larger.7 million contract for advanced laser modeling and simulation.Air Force Research Laboratory officials have said they plan to have a program of record for air-fired laser weapons in place by 2023.Developing a mobile power source small enough to integrate into a fast-moving fighter jet remains a challenge for laser technology.Another advantage of lasers is an ability to use a much more extended magazine for weapons.

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If DE-STAR had a 330-feet-wide phased Laser Engraver array, it could divert volatile-laden asteroids 330 feet.It is now feasible to consider the methods based on laser ablation as one of the most relevant and effective techniques of asteroid deflection.Miller explained that the Army wants to understand the lasers' full capabilities.We spin off lesser capable laser systems that can do good things on smaller platforms.

The U.S. Navy plans to accelerate the deployment of high-energy Laser Engraver weapons.If the demonstration is successful, the first laser weapons could come into service in the mid-2020s.We're not at the point where we can decide we're going to put lasers in the force.However, one area in which Kendall said a laser weapon could be "very helpful, potentially.Batgirl's most significant superpower back in 1967 was defying gender norms for women one kick and laser beam at a time.

The Navy's science representative described similar laser pointer 3000mw programs for ships.AFSOC anticipates it will have its first laser on board a gunship and in demonstrations by 2020.A laser on board a combat aircraft could be useful in a slew of different missions, he said.While there is an expense to install, support and maintain a laser system.Industry has already begun envisioning other aircraft that could host a laser weapon on board.Business development lead for laser sensors and systems at Lockheed's mission system.
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