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Boeing Corporation is developing a laser gun by order of the US Army, and now a new weapon was tested at sea and over land. The High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD) - a high-energy laser mounted on a large truck - successfully shot down unmanned drones and 60-mm mortar shells into the sky in Florida earlier this year
Current test conducted on a windy and foggy environment, an important step in order to prove that this technology is suitable for use in the Navy. Installing HEL MD used 10-kilowatt laser - much less powerful than you plan to use in the final version - to "successfully intercept" more than 150 goals based on Eglin Air Force Base, the Ministry of Defence test track in the northwestern part of Florida. In other words, the laser is brought down or destroy targets.
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In simple terms, the laser creates an incredibly powerful, highly focused beam of light and directs it to the moving target. The light is converted into heat and, after a sufficient amount of heat is transferred, the aim is affected and falls or blows. The Army and Boeing (received $ 36 million for this project) working on this for most of the decade, to create a new generation of weapons platforms.
Lithium-ion batteries that feed the laser HEL MD, charged a 60-kilowatt diesel generator. Thus, as long as the military is full gas tank, they can shoot the targets colliding indefinitely. The system uses a telescope and an infrared camera with wide viewing angle for target detection and guidance to them. Boeing designed the system so that it will be controlled only by the driver and the operator with a laptop and a controller from Xbox. Placing it on a truck making the system mobile, and more useful in combat situations.
The next step for the laser gun will increase capacity to 50 or 60 kilowatts, "tactically significant power level" for use against missiles, artillery and mortar shells and unmanned drones. It is expected that this laser gun is ready for use, at least in the next few years.
(And there will come a new Xbox, and operators will grow. And factory batteries build.)
Source: habrahabr.ru/post/236637/
Current test conducted on a windy and foggy environment, an important step in order to prove that this technology is suitable for use in the Navy. Installing HEL MD used 10-kilowatt laser - much less powerful than you plan to use in the final version - to "successfully intercept" more than 150 goals based on Eglin Air Force Base, the Ministry of Defence test track in the northwestern part of Florida. In other words, the laser is brought down or destroy targets.
52,539,406
In simple terms, the laser creates an incredibly powerful, highly focused beam of light and directs it to the moving target. The light is converted into heat and, after a sufficient amount of heat is transferred, the aim is affected and falls or blows. The Army and Boeing (received $ 36 million for this project) working on this for most of the decade, to create a new generation of weapons platforms.
Lithium-ion batteries that feed the laser HEL MD, charged a 60-kilowatt diesel generator. Thus, as long as the military is full gas tank, they can shoot the targets colliding indefinitely. The system uses a telescope and an infrared camera with wide viewing angle for target detection and guidance to them. Boeing designed the system so that it will be controlled only by the driver and the operator with a laptop and a controller from Xbox. Placing it on a truck making the system mobile, and more useful in combat situations.
The next step for the laser gun will increase capacity to 50 or 60 kilowatts, "tactically significant power level" for use against missiles, artillery and mortar shells and unmanned drones. It is expected that this laser gun is ready for use, at least in the next few years.
(And there will come a new Xbox, and operators will grow. And factory batteries build.)
Source: habrahabr.ru/post/236637/
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