Laser weapon - Wikipedia
WEBA laser weapon [2] is a type of directed-energy weapon that uses lasers to inflict damage. Whether they will be deployed as practical, high-performance military weapons remains to be seen. [3] [4] One of the major issues with laser weapons is atmospheric thermal blooming, which is still largely unsolved. This issue is exacerbated when there is ...
High-energy laser weapons: A defense expert explains how they …
WEBMar 7, 2024 · Militaries around the world are rapidly developing science fiction-like laser weapons, motivated in part by the growing threat from swarms of drones.
Laser Pistols: Emerging weapon and tactics - SPACE & DEFENSE
WEBSep 29, 2020 · Historical transition from a Laserarm (misused off-the-shelf commercial Laser), to an Improvised Laser Weapon (Grey Assembled Military-Like Technology), and the Homemade Laser Pistol, which is essentially a technology hybridization, represent a growing military and domestic threat.
Laser Weapons Get Real - Scientific American
WEBMay 28, 2015 · Long a staple of science fiction, laser weapons are edging closer to the battlefield, thanks to optical fibers. By Andy Extance & Nature magazine. Technology. Silently, the drone aircraft...
Dreaming of death rays: the search for laser weapons - Nature
WEBJan 9, 2019 · In the late 1950s, he pitched the concept of powerful ray guns using lasers to the US defence department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA, the predecessor to today’s DARPA), which...
Welcome to the Laser Wars | WIRED
WEBMay 13, 2024 · Following its creation in 1960 by American engineer and physicist Theodore Maiman, the laser—technically an acronym for “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation”—almost...
High-energy laser weapons: A defense expert ... - New Space …
WEBMar 11, 2024 · Unlike traditional weapons such as guns and cannons that have a finite amount of ammunition, a high-energy laser can keep firing as long as it has electrical power. The U.S. Army is deploying a truck-based high-energy laser to shoot down a range of targets, including drones, helicopters, mortar shells and rockets.
Army's Powerful New Laser Weapon: Ultrashort Pulsed Laser Details
WEBFeb 24, 2021 · The U.S. Army is issuing the call to develop an ultrashort pulse laser. The laser is designed to unleash “enormous power” in a fraction of the time a regular laser weapon lasts.
Military technology: Laser weapons get real | Nature
WEBMay 27, 2015 · Long a staple of science fiction, laser weapons are edging closer to the battlefield — thanks to optical fibres.
Laser weapons: Is this the dawn of the death ray? - New Atlas
WEBMar 22, 2018 · The energy-tunable laser and the remotely controlled gun, which features a range of 2.5 km (1.5 mile) and selectable rates of fire, are designed to complement one another in handling UAVs and ...
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