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Originally posted by TeslaandLyne
Yes, Zorgon, the real leader and controllers in Space Technology has to be the Navy.
The Naval Sea Systems Command Directed Energy and Electric Weapon Systems Program Office - with support from NSWCDD, the Program Executive Office for Integrated Warfare Systems' Close In Weapon System (CIWS) Program Office, and Raytheon Missile Systems - fired a laser through a beam director on a KINETO Tracking Mount controlled by a MK 15 CIWS at San Nicholas Island, Calif., May 24, successfully tracking, engaging, and destroying, for a second time, a threat representative unmanned aerial vehicle in flight in an over-the-water combat representative scenario.
WASHINGTON — Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), with support from Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Dahlgren, for the second time successfully tracked, engaged, and destroyed a threat representative Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) while in flight, May 24, at San Nicholas Island, Calif.
This marks the first Detect-Thru-Engage laser shoot-down of a threat representative target in an over-the-water, combat representative scenario.
A total of two UAV targets were engaged and destroyed in a maritime environment during the testing, the second series of successes for the U.S. Navy’s Laser Weapon System (LaWS) Program. Members of NAVSEA's Directed Energy and Electric Weapon Systems (DE&EWS) Program Office (PMS 405), Program Executive Office for Integrated Warfare Systems (PEO IWS), Raytheon Missile Systems, and NSWC Dahlgren fired a laser through a beam director on a KINETO Tracking Mount, controlled by a MK 15 Close In Weapon System (CIWS). This brings to a total of seven UAVs destroyed by the Surface Navy’s first tactical development for fielding a Directed Energy weapon system.
“The success of this effort validates the military utility of DE&EWS in a maritime environment. Further development and integration of increasingly more powerful lasers into Surface Navy LaWS will increase both the engagement range and target sets that can be successfully engaged and destroyed,” said Program Manager Capt. David Kiel.
NAVSEA's DE&EWS Program Office is responsible for managing the research, development, integration, and acquisition initiation of DE&EWS for the Navy's surface forces. PEO IWS 3BC is the Program Office responsible for all aspects of the CIWS Program with Raytheon serving as the Navy’s prime contractor for CIWS. NSWC Dahlgren, as the LaWS Technical Direction Agent (TDA), focuses on the technology development and test and evaluation for directed energy.
DE&EWS is transitioning technology from the laboratory to prototype system development/test for operational development and use. One of the multiple 'game changing' technologies under development includes laser weapons that provide for speed-of-light engagements at tactically significant ranges with cost savings realized by minimizing the use of defensive missiles and projectiles.
Whatever the reason why congress decided to eliminate the projects, it surely wasn’t due to a lack of progress. In January, FEL researchers successfully tested an important component known as an injector, which is used to produce the type of electrons necessary to generate megawatt laser beams. And tests on the hypersonic railgun consistently shattered records.
Originally posted by TXRabbit
Did anyone happen to catch the special on NatGeo last night called "When Aliens Attack" ?
Hi, Z; according to my sources, if they let us know about it or demonstrate it, it is already obsolete... kinda makes you roll your eyes at some of the replies...
Originally posted by zorgon
reply to post by Eurisko2012
Don't forget that what they show the public is about 30 years old
Originally posted by zorgon
reply to post by Eurisko2012
Don't forget that what they show the public is about 30 years old
Originally posted by SarK0Y
Zorgon, The Seeker_713g
Amici, if that ain't so big deal, shed to me some light onto what exactly Their state-of-the-art lasers are capable of ?
Originally posted by SarK0Y
Amici, if that ain't so big deal, shed to me some light onto what exactly Their state-of-the-art lasers are capable of ?
At the end of the 1980s, the Russian press revealed that a leading Soviet space designer, Vladimir Chelomei, had worked on a mini-Shuttle, which could be an economical alternative to the heavy US Space Shuttle and Russia's own Buran. However later publications hinted that Chelomei saw his reusable orbiter as the Soviet response to Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" program. Chelomei's mini-Shuttle, apparently, would be capable of carrying laser weapons and shooting down American ballistic missiles.