The US Navy will be equipped with laser ship guns in service with the US Navy.

The United States Navy plans to get a laser gun into service as soon as possible. On the development of a new weapons and testing takes four years. However, according to experts, the prototype will be fully ready within two years, reports Cnews.ru.

Representatives of the US Navy said that in four years the process of installing high-energy combat lasers on US military ships would begin.

In the near future, the process of testing new weapons will begin, the main purpose of which will be the interception of small vessels and aircraft.

Mike Deichman, who oversees the development of promising weapons for the US Navy, said that by the end of 2012, it is planned to conclude contracts related to the construction of prototypes of laser ship guns. All the technologies necessary for their development already exist; you only need to develop and test a new weapon in order to adopt it later.

Experts believe that it will take 4 of the year, but it is possible that the prototype of the new weapon will be ready within 2 years. According to Deychman, with the advent of laser guns, the US Navy will have completely new opportunities associated with the destruction of aircraft, UAVs, fast boats, subsonic cruise missiles.

In the opinion of a non-expert, this is more like a hasty attempt to adopt a laser in any form. However, this is not an adventurous decision, but a well-weighed plan. After all, if viewed from the technological side, the laser weapon is a proven mature technology. So, in April, the US Navy 2011 experienced low-power 15-kilowatt combat laser, which successfully destroyed the engine of a small vessel. Salty sea air and cloudy weather did not interfere with the burning of the outboard motor of a moving boat at a distance of 1,5 kilometers. The same tests were carried out on land: the lasers were able to successfully destroy the UAV.

In addition, the Office of Naval Research seeks to focus on a solid-state laser, which is considered relatively cheap. For the 10 years, the US Navy has been developing powerful megawatt-class free-electron lasers. This project is very expensive, time consuming, and a combat laser is required today. Meanwhile, the military believes that a laser whose power will be 100 kilowatts is quite sufficient, although a laser with a power of 1 megawatts is of course more attractive and capable of burning 1 meters of steel in 6 for a second.

Thus, the Navy is not going to give up a powerful free electron laser, which is capable of destroying airplanes and small vessels, but they want to get at least a laser gun with a power of 100 kW.

Comments

[vostok-47]

Very picky little thing:
1. Consumes a huge amount of energy.
2. Runs at full power only in clear weather.
3. Has good effectiveness only in the vicinity of the target.
In general, the Americans again threw words to the wind ...... As in 2000, they promised to put lasers on airplanes.

[urzul]

The main thing is NOT said, the rate of fire of the system and the time of continuous "firing"
And in my opinion, it’s enough to put a system of aerosol curtains on a boat, like on tanks.
And zae ......... get on it.

[Passing]

Quote: urzul

enough aerosol curtain systems will deliver

IMHO depends on the laser power and the thickness of the curtain.
Against a megawatt laser, "Cloud" is unlikely to save, it will simply burn through the plasma channel in aerosols, although of course some of the power will be lost.

[Dimitrxnumx]

I agree, it is very similar to a publicity stunt, but at one time they also squinted at the creators of the first steamships and did not always want to acquire them, but in the end, scientific progress proved that a steam engine is better than wind in sails. I think that after the creation of the first such "samples" of laser guns, they will be followed by already modified and less capricious samples. In our country, the process of research and creation of laser weapons has been restored again after a certain lull. I really hope that we are not lagging behind.

[Kars]

The same number as the Reagan with the SOI system. Laser guns have not yet been mastered for airless space, but here they are about use in the atmosphere.

[ytqnhfk]

the video is generally a joke obviously for schoolchildren, there the frame changes several times! Power needs to be increased at least 50 times, which can happen! but as they said here the curtain for the ships will save the situation for the UAV, definitely not and you have to come up with planes!

[9991]

Exactly 30 years have passed, but the SDI is still gone - they took it.
But the ear must still be kept sharp.

[fktrctqxbr]

While Amer will illuminate us with flashlights, we will cover them with a couple of bursts of artillery at this time. Here you have a laser weapon! :

[Aleksey67]

Those who know how to "cut" the budget are amers. I would give an analogy with ours, like the "Friendship" chainsaw (with them) with a jigsaw (with us). Only they have a large "brigade" of sawers, but we have "constantly in power" (small composition) and therefore ours have more for each "sawdust"

[ward]

Don’t worry ... you can do damage twice ... by building an aircraft carrier and drowning it ... and you still need to see what's worse ... plus ..

[Pimply]

Any new technology is picky at first. If you think this way, then we must return to the bows

[FROST]

In general, the Americans again threw words into the wind ...

Nonsense, the idea that they set forth is very real. Their idea with airplane lasers is not feasible, but it was not in vain. Those powerful lasers that were developed and had to shoot hundreds of kilometers away, will now simply be focused for several kilometers against the RCC. Ship volumes and carrying capacity will calmly allow you to place such laser systems. So, the Americans have made a breakthrough and this must be taken into account because such a technology will pose a serious threat to Russian anti-ship missiles.

[Neighbor]

Quote: FROST

Americans made a breakthrough

Hee hee Well, laugh! In the USSR, such "breakthroughs" were made back in the 70s - 80s. They have not yet been used on ships and tanks - there were no sources of energy so powerful and compact until the day before yesterday, when our Russian scientists created generators 10 times more powerful than the most powerful in the world and at the same time the size of a desk. So much for rail guns and laser weapons. Everything has its simple time. The fact that Russia has long eaten and popped out - Ameriko.sosy - are only going to buy and cook! And so in everything that concerns weapons.
By the way, in the same 70-80s, the USSR came up with protection against any laser weapon - which costs a penny. Not a light-absorbing, but a reflective coating is applied to the rocket - such as a mirror. And that’s it !!!! The laser is powerless - ... knows where to reflect. Only for this reason - further developments and turned off by lasers - did not go further into the USSR.
Who is more interested in this topic - combat lasers - see - Impact Power - Laser weapons. Everything is very popularly painted. And about the American and about the Soviet development and about the Russian. Although the Americans - against children and a woman, civilians - it’s something to fight with a laser! They love such things - just to show off more. And with us everything is simpler - against scrap - there is no reception!

[FROST]

Hee hee. In the USSR, such "breakthroughs" were made back in the 80s. They are not used yet - there were no energy sources so powerful until the day before yesterday, when our Russian scientists created generators 10 times more powerful than the most powerful in the world and at the same time the size of a desk. So much for rail cannons and laser weapons. Everything has its simple time. The fact that Russia has long eaten and popped out - Ameriko.sosy - are only going to buy and cook! And so in everything that concerns weapons.

Well, yes, it’s written by someone who writes with joyful cry that the Tu-160 flew into the territory of France (moreover, having flown through all the neighboring territories), turned on the invisibility and everyone immediately got rid of bricks from fear.
And the real idea of ​​these very generators and technical principles you have zero, only squeals that they are Americans and the most stupid. What can I say, objective opinion is difficult to find.

[Neighbor]

Quote: FROST

Americans made a breakthrough

And this is written by a person who claimed that only aliens could defeat the American army. So type amers are cool and powerful!
It is necessary to be treated - it is not too late yet!
And I just, unlike some - I say the facts - which I did not invent. Look Shock
Strength - Tu-160 - like it says about this incident. Or do you not trust such programs? Think smarter than everyone?
In vain! Something judging by your comments (370 pieces) and rating - intelligence and knowledge - you obviously do not shine!

[Neighbor]

Quote: FROST

Tu-160 flew into France

The combat radius of missile destruction in the Tu-160 is 2000 km. If you don’t even know that the Tu-160 is not a bomber, it’s a missile carrier (12 missiles) (the crew consists of 6 people, and 3 just make sure that the plane is not detected on enemy radars - naturally, with the help of specials. equipment) and still manage to argue - that’s what you can talk about at all.
By the way - all Tu-160s are undergoing modernization - there will be a Tu-160M. Surely - the radius of destruction will increase and invisibility for enemy air defense.

[staser]

Tu-160 is not a bomber - but a missile carrier

Well, actually the Tu-160 is a strategic bomber, in some sources it appears as a bomber-bomber

[Neighbor]

Quote: staser

well, actually the Tu-160 strategic bomber

It could also be developed as a bomber, like the Tu-95MS - now both are strategic - missile carriers! Bombs were used rather for testing nuclear weapons. But with the development of air defense - they switched to missiles. The range of combat employment of new X-102 missiles - purchased on Tu-160, Tu-95MS - 5.500 km. That is, there is no need to fly into the enemy’s air defense zone. Tu-160 - 12 rackets carries, Tu-95MS - 8 long-range missiles. Similar missiles are installed on the submarine Ash - 32 pieces each. Tu-22MS - also a couple of these can carry.

[FROST]

And this is written by a person who claimed that only aliens could defeat the American army.

Firstly, he didn’t declare, but asked a question in a sarcastic form, secondly, not about the army, but about the fleet, and thirdly, it is difficult for an adequate person to resist the irony over hatred chatter. Such chatter is not an indicator of patriotism, but an indicator of ignorance.

Look Shock
Strength - Tu-160 - like it says about this incident

Well, everything is clear with you)) Very funny transmission. Never and nowhere have I heard a greater concentration of the phrase "Has no analogues in the world."

In vain! Something judging by your comments (370 pieces) and rating - intelligence and knowledge - you obviously do not shine!

Ridiculous though) Does anyone here appreciate intelligence and knowledge? On this site, they do not like objective comparison and reasonable criticism, they do not value information content and are only favored for screeching about Kuzkin's mother, redneck names of Americans and idiotic statements like that if it touches, we will chop their airplanes with a saber. One has only to look at you - it's already clear. As one delusional message about the Tu-160 flight over France, stuffed with a childish distortion of the definition of "Americans" - manages to score dozens of pluses. Aren't you ashamed to show such stupid ignorance?

[FROST]

And irony over such hamsters should not be kept. For ignorance on the site must be fought in the conditions of the information society, this will have a great fruitful effect on the favorable mental development of the younger generation.
A hamster is not a patriot. The hamster is redneck.
And it’s not very good that hamsters so approve of hanging their virtual regalia on them.

Here are examples of posts of the intellectual colonel (!) Neighbor

Amerikoso.sii - waiting for the fate of MMM.

Neither the Hebrews nor the Ameikosos - one cannot believe for a penny!

What then - Kuzka himself - since his parents are so murderous? laughing Go and then father went with his mother!
The time is coming for Russian Kuzka!
Give Russia Kuzka! wassat

And the Jews, who loves them? Who does gypsy love? These are the same gypsies in fact!

that one good thing - he did in his filthy life - he imparted the Jews immeasurably!

Can you do it? Purely out of respect? belay
......... you, not Russian - change your nickname - don't dishonor our great nation. You have no right to call yourself that. For your place is with the "girl" ........ shi! laughing

[FROST]

And this stupid hatred in the posts is not surprising because in the inflamed brain
hamsters world seems so

and a typical representative of the species looks something like this

PS Patriot is not the one who hates other countries, Patriot is the one who loves his country. And learns !, enlightened and works for her good. And he doesn’t write any nonsense.

[Krilion]

Quote: vostok-47

Very picky little thing:

almost all existing weapons at the time of their invention and the start of production were "fastidious", ugly and ineffective ... however, the development of technology radically changed the situation .. more recently, unmanned aircraft only caused a grin ... I think there is no need to continue the thought. ..

[Neighbor]

Quote: FROST

Here are examples of posts of the intellectual colonel (!) Neighbor

Huh! And what? Quite sound and normal comments - unlike some here! - who are ready to kneel before Amers! And they worship America in general! I’m just a realist and I write as it is in life. Somewhere I’m joking. Somewhere and nasty!
By the way - the flight range of new missiles X-102 missiles with nuclear filling in the Tu-160, Tu-95MS - not 2000km. - and 5.500 km. And he can easily smash any European country — not even flying into the enemy’s air defense zone!
You understand - ............!

[FROST]

Huh! And what? Quite sound and normal comments - unlike some here! - who are ready to kneel before Amers! And they worship America in general! I’m just a realist and I write as it is in life. Somewhere I’m joking. Somewhere and nasty!

Cattle, it is cattle in Africa ... And anti-Semite in addition. At the same time, you dissolve the language of intelligence)

[Mr. Truth]

Ha !, if you put it on "chiconderoga", then this laser will fire once every 5 years.
In general, such topics are already fed up, the expression "the American military will receive" is fully associated with the expression "British scientists have discovered."

[Reddragon]

Quote: Mr. Truth

"the American military will get" the same fully associated with the expression "British scientists have discovered."

And yet, the association with the worthless waste of trillion dollars

[Follow us]

An effective and inexpensive solution - our sailors just kick the ships to a mirror shine!

[ytqnhfk]

Another laser is a light wave! That sound can be extinguished by another sound wave and what is impossible? I think that this can be calculated and created like anti-laser guns that will not shoot far, just create a screen from the wave and that’s it!

[ward]

These studies were carried out in the Samara branch of the Institute. Basov .. And by the way, something they did there ... They put off with the wording the idea overtook the time of the years at 50 ... plus ... You need to learn ... good ideas come ... and this is rare ...

[755962]

No one will tell you where the Soviet “laser tank” 1K17 “Compression” (“Stiletto”) disappearedThe objective of the laser complex was to counter optical-electronic systems for monitoring and controlling weapons of the battlefield in harsh climatic and operational conditions for armored vehicles. The co-executor of the topic on the chassis was the Uraltransmash design bureau from Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), a leading developer of almost all (with rare exceptions) Soviet self-propelled artillery.
Under the leadership of General Designer of Uraltransmash, Yuri Vasilyevich Tomashov (then the director of the plant was Gennady Andreyevich Studenok), the laser system was mounted on a well-tested chassis GMZ - product 118, which leads its “pedigree” from the chassis of product 123 (SAM "Circle") and product 105 (self-propelled guns SU-100P). At Uraltransmash, two slightly different machines were made. The differences were due to the fact that, in the order of accumulating experience and experiments, the laser systems were not the same. The combat characteristics of the complex were outstanding at that time, and they now meet the requirements of military-tactical operations. For the creation of the complex, developers were awarded the Lenin and State Prizes. Formally, this complex is still in service today. However, for a long time nothing was known about the fate of the experimental machines. Upon completion of the tests, they turned out to be virtually useless to anyone. The vortex of the collapse of the USSR scattered them across the post-Soviet space and brought them to the state of scrap metal. http://www.militarists.ru/?p=3798

[urzul]

From the photo it is clear that it is in the museum. Perhaps these developments will emerge on the basis of "Armata" promised the same in 13 a new generation of weapons.

[Aleksey67]

Quote: 755962

No one will tell you where the Soviet “laser tank” 1K17 “Compression” went

This fate also did not pass “Compression” - the prohibitive cost of the complex, despite advanced, breakthrough technologies and a good result, made the leadership of the Ministry of Defense doubt its effectiveness. The top-secret "laser gun" has remained unclaimed. The only specimen was hiding behind high fences for a long time, until unexpectedly in 2010, it truly turned out to be in some miraculous way in the exposition of the Military Technical Museum, which is located in the village of Ivanovskoye, near Moscow. We must pay tribute and thank people who managed to get this valuable exhibit out of the heading of complete secrecy and made this unique car public, a clear example of advanced Soviet science and engineering, a witness to our forgotten victories.

More details about the Soviet "laser tank here http://www.militarists.ru/?p=3798

[dred]

We also had a development called the goldfish.

[schonia06rus]

I don’t know how it sounds, but I know one admiral, a serious uncle (right now a teacher), not a senile, these lasers are VERY serious and consider them quite promising!

[DEMENTIY]

Everyone who is interested in serious US laser technologies do not be too lazy to watch the video (This is TECHNOLOGY!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4WrdViWidY

[Landwarrior]

Well right, only on ships and you can!
Well, they themselves are arctic sizes, even without a power source
I remember, not so long ago, a cartoon flashed about fighters with laser farts.
In short, once again - a huge hello to the American defense industry!
Saw, men! Russia believes in you!

[ward]

Well, drooling ... Great ... On the Internet there are data from industrial installations for laser cutting of metal ... Look for the sake of interest ... pay attention to the distance from the laser to the workpiece ... rummage carefully and dig up the standards for vibration and reflection. .. And look what is said about the physical limit on the power of the lasers ... Alexey 67 is right ... they are sawing with a chainsaw ... plus for everyone ... for optimism ...

[Andriuha077]

A good thing to spot sensors.
"Maple-M" ("Design Bureau of Automatic Systems", Samara).
We are studying.
But what they are trying to sell is nonsense of a mad and restless dough.

[Stasi.]

Laser is a promising weapon, it remains to solve the main problem - a reliable and powerful source of energy. But lasers can be fought, it is enough to use special reflectors and the enemy can be struck by his own laser shot.

[Anubis]

It is quite simple to defend against laser weapons - it is one thing to burn through metal, another asbestos or graphite (despite the fact that they are lighter than metals), the "armor" of centimeter asbestos will become an insurmountable obstacle for a 100 kW laser, with a very low weight of such protection.

[Passing]

The mirror surface is not a panacea, it will reflect the first instants, then the process of boiling will inevitably go, the surface will cease to be mirror ...
Therefore, they try to apply ablation protection from a variety of evaporating mirror layers. Saves for a while.
There is no fundamental difference what to burn with a laser - metal, asbestos, graphite. The laser vaporizes any substance, with any refractoriness. Just physics.
PS: Naturally, for different substances it is required to spend a different amount of energy or to spend different time differently.

[Anubis]

If it takes several minutes to overcome the protection of a cruise missile or projectile, you can turn this laser off

[Vldmr]

Here the matter is somewhat different. The reflective surface is wonderful, the less energy absorbed the better, the more the matter is the thermal conductivity (as well as its heat capacity) of the material and its heat resistance. Heat is removed due to thermal conductivity in the structure and its transfer to the environment due to heat transfer and radiation. The resistance of the structure to the action of a beam of a certain power will be determined by the equilibrium temperature in the area of ​​influence, if it is more rough, speaking of the melting temperature (or rather the loss of strength due to heating below structural loads), then the target will be hit. That is, it is necessary to consider the balance of the energy transmitted by the laser in the area of ​​influence (the size of the irradiated surface will be relevant), taking into account the reflection and energy dissipated in the mass of the structure due to heat conduction, heating of the environment, energy for evaporation of the material. Those. it is optimal to report as much energy as possible, for the smallest possible time interval, which would result in loss of dissipation in the structure. 100 kW the 1st laser cannot destroy for example the wall of a water tank 100 mm thick until it boils all the water in the tank, and if it emits the same 1 KJ not in a second, but put in XNUMXms, then the wall will simply burn out and cooling with water will not help .

[Pancho]

Some of ours are lagging behind. As you don’t read, all Americans are either a new telescope, a hypersonic plane, or an alien probe. What about ours !? This is already annoying me. It’s a shame for the state. I don’t quote it, and so everyone knows who said it.

[Vladimir75]

Chill Let them first get to the level of our development of the 80s and there you will see http://oko-planet.su/politik/politikarm/11931-a-60-lazernyj-mech-sssr-ili-za-30-
let-do.html

[Ilyich]

Judging by the video, the matter has not gone further than the prototype. Roller for almost a minute. Almost whole minute they just set fire to the ordinary plastic outboard motor housing.
Who in the conditions of battle will give them a whole minute to shine at one point? And do not burn metal in such a minute with such power. Again, the industrialists saw the loot.

[Kars]

Quote: Ilyich

So, for almost a whole minute, they just set fire to the ordinary plastic body of the outboard motor

Yes, and painted black

[DartAjax]

Laser guns .. And there the laser swords will go .. Jedi Empire, Mlyn :)

There is a lot of dough and it’s not worth putting in, but it’s just to our advantage. Let the "stealth" continue to invent, for which there is a lot of money, but there is zero sense .. Our best proven method is a weighty blank at a good speed.

[siroytora]

Theoretically possible, why not? The installation for pumping is quite possible to place a separate unit, a turbine with a high-voltage output. Fasten a destroyer with a laser to a power plant the size of a battleship. A pair of tanks with liquid helium for cooling is where to cram. You look for a few seconds and that's enough. per megawatt .... A joke, of course. For Americans, this topic is developed at a height. Actually, I ordered a 20-watt CO2 laser. (I can give a link for the order. $ 500. They also offer solid-state, up to 1 watt, green. A few hundred $) Flask, mirrors are fuflyuzhnye. He sculpted the pump himself, the idea was cultivated by the Tesla technology to grow a high-voltage block, and additional excitation by longitudinal electromagnetic waves. He played badly until he fried. It died when a self-made copper mirror was placed in the field of a spiral magnetic coil. It puffed up so that part of the retina burned out in the eye, along with the laptop and sotik. In theory, there are many bugs, and a combination of obscure processes of the principle of laser operation with the incomprehensible properties of electricity and magnetic field can give an absolutely incredible effect. Better if we get it. If not already received. Einstein Masday, Tesla Forever.

[Gavril]

With the plane did not grow together, went to the ships. The money will pass .. they will go to something else and so on ad infinitum. In short, there are sawers sitting there "cutting down" our

[Pravdoruba]

And we have that, in addition to photos of the 70s. Can we just scum? And then how they finalize it can be late.

[Honory]

I have no doubt that they will do it, but I doubt that at 4 years old.