[list of] Pentagon laser programs

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arsin

This thread is inspired by another thread.


List of lolerlaser programs
* Can a Puny Laser Become a Drone-Zapper?
* Pain Laser Finds New Special Forces Role
* Tactical Laser Could Work Like Long-Range Napalm
* Energy Weapons Might be Eye-Poppers
* Weapons-Grade Lasers by the End of ‘08?
* Army Moves Ahead with Mobile Laser Cannon
* Laser Gunship Fires; ‘Deniable’ Strikes Ahead?
* Pentagon Looks for ‘Rugged, Military Useful’ Lasers
* Air Force Looks to Laser-Proof Its Weapons
* No Laser Blasters. Yet.
* Electric Laser Race Heats Up
* Russian ‘Expert’: Soviets Had Laser Cannons First
* Laser Gunship Blasts Beams, Preps for ‘08 Flight Test
* Marines Request ‘Long-Range Blow Torch’ for Iraq
* Lasers-Only on "Gunless" Gunship
* Air Force Eyes Energy Shields, Microwave Bombs
* Navy Pushing Laser ‘Holy Grail’ to Weapons Grade
* Laser Jet Zaps Animated Missiles, Spouts Jargon
* Israel’s Military Shoots Down Laser Cannon
* Israelis Sue Government for Laser Cannon
* Laser Weapons Better Against Rockets?
* Second life for Laser Defense?
* Ray Gun "Holy Grail" Aims for Battlefield Strength
* Monster Truck Gets a Laser
* Laser Death Star
* Laser Weapons Closing in on Reality
* Real-Life Laser Rifle: Army Goal
* Flipper Fires Lasers in Air Force Brief
* Laser Relays Live!
* Vice vs. the Flying Lightsaber
* Laser Jet Over Oklahoma
* Congress Slashes Flying Lightsaber
* Pentagon Report: No More ‘Death Rays’
* Spooky Math for "Flying Lightsaber"



Please post your favourite link below.


Mine is * Laser Death Star:
Fun fact: Lockheed got a patent

Laser Death Star | Danger Room | Wired.com
A new patent granted to Lockheed Martin seeks to combine multiple lasers into a single, higher-power beam, which would, in theory, help achieve the power output needed for laser weapons. The patent outlines a method to "combine multiple laser beams into a single coherent beam without requiring insertion of optical elements into the laser beam."
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Lemon said:
so you backed out of the other thread and made this one?
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um no. if you hd trollig'd there earlier you would have a clue.

I just answered the post that was suppose to answer all the doubts,
an authoritative post by Data.

turns out the links had nothing substantial, laser plane is lolerlaserplane :shrug:
 
CarpeIppon said:
arsin makes list of wired articles he thinks are only about systems that don't work. One of the articles says we are close to having laser weapons, and mentions Raytheon successfully shooting mortars. Laser Weapons Closing in on Reality | Danger Room | Wired.com arsin self-owns himself again.
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I found the article that mentions range, and the damage that was actually done. You mention this above.

But we were arguing about the lolerlaserplane. Not a ground based system that can shoot down mortars.
 
I read loser too. This laser stuff has FAILZ written all over it.

Laser Jet Zaps Animated Missiles, Spouts Jargon
enjoy some CGI. And a healthy heap of jargon, with phrases like, "through Link 16 network-centric communication
and the C2BMC system, ABL notifies the rest of the BMDS system."



:lol:
 
man up? The discussion in the other thread is about lolerlaserplane, not a ground based system. Anyways ...
Navy Pushing Laser ‘Holy Grail’ to Weapons Grade | Danger Room | Wired.com

Jefferson Labs researchers showed the world that such weapons might be possible, when their FEL hit the 10 kilowatt mark in 2004. But, in a change of plans, these laser specialists won’t be the ones bringing the ray gun up to battlefield strength. Instead, the Navy has asked defense contractors to build the prototype energy weapon, by 2014.
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Gee they changed plans.

100 kilowatts should be enough power to zap enemy rockets. And, not that long ago, makers of the next-generation Navy destroyer were talking up the possibility that the ship might be laser-equipped.
But, in what appears to be another shift of direction, the now Navy sees this 100 kw machine primarily as a way to "provide the knowledge that allows scaling with confidence to the MW [megawatt] level in a follow-on device." That would make the FEL as strong as any laser ever built — including the so-called "Nautilus" ray gun, which knocked artillery shells and mortars out of the sky earlier this decade, and the Airborne Laser, designed to blast ballistic missiles.
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Gee they changed plans again.

Who knows, maybe in 5 years they will have something to effectively knock down mortars etc.
 
arsin said:
Who knows, maybe in 5 years they will have something to effectively knock down mortars etc.
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Are you saying its possible now? You sure the atmospheric attenuation isn't so great that they can only boil paint?

Who knows, maybe you're right. Maybe it will be possible.
 
But hey, Northrop Grumman didn't give up :clap:
they came up with the "Skyguard laser defense system"
"We wanted to reexamine the effectiveness of the system and we asked for a timetable for the production of a mobile version of Nautilus [Sky Guard] and we wanted cost estimates. We did not receive these," a defense source said.
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And in 2008 the Pentagon released this report "No More ‘Death Rays"
The Defense Science Board, an influential advisory panel, has a new report on directed energy weapons that finally injects some realism into the laser debate. Instead of inflated, sci-fi-esque claims and giant laser projects, the Board wants to see a more measured tone — and smaller, more practical applications for military energy weapons. "The Department needs a concerted education effort to replace the ‘death ray’ myth of directed weapons with a comprehensive understanding of the potential benefits and limitations of their applications."
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Hence they are going to focus on shooting down mortars, blinding enemies etc. small scale stuff. :lol:

Small ... but realistic.
 
you forgot some

In 2004 the US Army and their partner, the IDF chose to cancel the Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser program after having spent $400 million and being told that it would take another $400 million to get the thing operational and in the field.

The purpose of the planned MTHEL program was to develop and test the first mobile Directed Energy weapon system capable of detecting, tracking, engaging, and defeating Rockets/Artillery/Mortars (RAM), cruise missiles, short-range ballistic missiles, and unmanned aerial vehicles.

In 2004, the MTHEL shot down about three dozen airborne targets in succession, including Katyusha rockets and mortars.
It was very successful in that regard - the main drawback was the amount of money that it would take to get the system in the field and operational as well as it's size and cost of individual units once R&D was done.
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although i do like how you continue to post links to articles that basically completely invalidate your original idiotic argument
 
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