The Pentagon expects to receive a full-featured "laser truck" by 2020

The US Army plans to have a full-featured prototype "laser truck" at its disposal by 2020. To this end, the US military has concluded contracts with Raytheon and Lockheed Martin-Dynetics to create a project for a mobile laser facility with an 100 kW power, Warspot reports with reference to the portal defensenews.com

Each of the companies involved in the development of laser weapons, received from the US Department of Defense on 10 million dollars in the framework of the project to create a "laser truck." The preliminary design of the project should be completed by the end of this year. The company, whose project fits the requirements of the US military, will receive further funding from the project and will have to provide a fully functioning prototype for 2020 for further testing.

It should be noted that the Pentagon has long been interested in developing laser weapons and is trying to finance all promising projects in this direction. In 2014, the US Department of Defense conducted tests on a laser system as part of the HEL MD program, and has now launched the HEL TVD program. The key difference between these programs is a multiple increase in power while reducing the size of the laser system.

The Ministry of Defense put forward a requirement for a new laser installation created within the framework of the HEL TVD program: the installation must be completely self-sufficient - it must independently detect, direct and hit air targets. In this case, the installation must hit all targets, ranging from drones to mines and rockets.

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[maxim947]

We will change lasers)
And so, of course, the expected capabilities of this complex and our Relight are extremely curious.

[Uncle lee]

to mines and rockets.

Flies, mosquitoes, gadflies, cockroaches and bugs!

[Starover_Z]

Quote: Uncle Lee

to mines and rockets.

Flies, mosquitoes, gadflies, cockroaches and bugs!

Leave the insects alone. Installation with such requirements

the installation should be completely self-sufficient - it should independently detect, direct and hit air targets. In this case, the installation should hit all targets, from drones to mines and missiles.

Need to install (and not one!) Around the White House!
So that no bastard bastard comes out anymore!

[USSR-1]

they cannot figure out who is worse — democrats, or republicans :), and you are bedbugs, cockroaches ...

[Sergey39]

Washington's New Fake Weapon

[MPN]

Quote: Sergey39

Washington's New Fake Weapon

Why fake? There are gasoline, diesel trucks ... now there will be a laser, a real breakthrough in technology ... In the trucks they are strong ...

[voyaka uh]

In the photo - Nautius. American-Israeli project. The Americans made the laser, Israel - the SLA.
In 2000, during tests in Nevada, he shot down 5 Grad missiles from a salvo of 8 missiles.
But the project was not funded either in the States or in Israel. For Americans, Grads are irrelevant, and in Israel the Iron Dome defeated in the MoD as a more long-range and universal system.

[Black sniper]

Another amersky super-duper wunderwafle

[voyaka uh]

Let's see ... A 100 kW laser can already do a lot of things, not only shoot down drones.

[krops777]

Let's see ... A 100 kW laser can already do a lot of things, not only shoot down drones.

Laser Schmeizer is all from the crafty, too many factors affect the effectiveness of using this weapon from the transparency of the atmosphere to the materials from which rockets, drones, etc. will be made.

[SETTGF]

voyaka uh! Does a 100 kW laser fog prevent drones from shooting down ?! By the way, Watt was a man - write his name with a capital letter!

[Kirill Dou]

... which works.

[igorbrsv]

Under certain conditions. It’s possible to protect an object.

[Kirill Dou]

Any technique works only under certain conditions.

[SETTGF]

voyaka uh! Your Dome was “disgraced” - could not intercept Soviet-made Syria Tochka missiles ... Your designers still have a lot to work on! Therefore, do not write nonsense about the Russian S-300, S-400 air defense systems and soon the S-500!

[Mikhail Zubkov]

Only Russia has a nuclear power plant for a space laser. And only Russia has a mobile nuclear power plant for a ground-based laser. And without energy, all your lasers will remain prodigies for showing to suckers and squeezing / cutting their money. Like a holey "Iron Dome", which only frightens the surrounding Arabs, and so far ...

[san4es]

... US Department of Defense has tested a laser installation as part of the HEL MD program

... And yourself, about the "fake weapons of Russia" rubbing ...

..... The High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD) - mainly a high energy laser mounted on top of a large truck - was successfully used to detonate some unmanned aerial vehicles and 60mm mortars from the Florida sky earlier this year, Boeing announced. .... Sep 8 2014 year

[Fungus]

Laser weapons will replace bullets in the future. You will see.

[100502]

Tie with mushrooms, and it may reach a brain burn.

[spectr]

They were late with development, by 20 years. With the advent of hypersound, the effectiveness of such systems decreases. Only against low-tech countries can it be successfully applied.
The only plus is cheap shoot down drones.

[voyaka uh]

Hypersonic weapons appeared 60 years ago. This is an ICBM. Their warheads accelerate to 20 MAX.
There are no other hypersonic weapons in the arsenals of countries. Only BR.
So why is the laser “late” - not clear?

[ANCIENT]

Alexei, do you know for sure that besides ballistic missiles there is no other hypersonic weapon, or are you talking about weapons from the armies of the us and israel? ???

[Kirill Dou]

And do not share what other hypersonic weapons in the world?)

[voyaka uh]

I wrote: "not in the arsenals."
Not in service. There are many options under development and prototypes. And then almost everything is a variant of the BR. Only, for example, the warhead does not fall on the target vertically, but at a gentle angle.

[Fungus]

He said everything correctly. You are late.

[SETTGF]

voyaka uh! Not tired of writing the same thing - "fairy tales" about hypersonic weapons - ICBMs of the 60s ??? Which fly at a speed of 20M. First, read carefully about hypersonic weapons - hypersonic weapons have a speed of more than 5M, and most importantly, they are controlled in the plasma stream, that is, they have a guidance system! Therefore, the Sarmat heavy missile will satisfy these requirements in Russia! And do not write nonsense and try to “spit” Russian developments ... which are ahead of the rest and not only!

[SETTGF]

voyaka uh! But Russia will make weapons based on hafnium, the Israeli sons will again cry and shout that this is impossible, since they from the USA could not do it ... !!!

[Kirill Dou]

But what about the planets ... in front of the entire Universe, do not waste time))

[Kirill Dou]

You might think that all weapons are completely hypersonic?

[igorbrsv]

A laser cannot instantly hit a target. It should cause heat and destruction of the target. Can he accompany the speed target close. And if the goal is far, then he will have to wait for the perfect weather? In vacuum, I would still understand against satellites, or in the atmosphere but against quadrocopters

[Kirill Dou]

X-ray lasers have high penetrating power, the effect of aerosols or clouds on them is not so great

[A. Privalov]

Quote: igorbrsv

A laser cannot instantly hit a target. It should cause heat and destruction of the target. Can he accompany the speed target close. And if the goal is far, then he will have to wait for the perfect weather? In vacuum, I would still understand against satellites, or in the atmosphere but against quadrocopters

In general, you are right. For low-power lasers (up to 30 kW), that's the way it is. However, with powers approaching 100 kW, heating and destruction of the target takes place in milliseconds, has an explosive character, and there is no talk of any "accompaniment". The usual fog for such power is no longer a hindrance. So-called "thermal breakdown", which is enough to defeat. Perhaps, some heavy aerosols will be an irresistible barrier to the beam, then you will have to use a different weapon.
The installation developed by Lockheed Martin works on the principle of spectral alignment of fiber lasers. In such a weapon, several laser emitters are installed, the rays from which are transmitted through an optical fiber into a special combining device. The result is that several low-power emitters allow you to get a high-power beam at the output.
What kind of system Raytheon has, I don't know.
Nor should we forget that Northrop Grumman Corporation is developing combat lasers for the Office of Naval Research. At sea and other requirements and power steeper. On ships, power plants make it possible to develop such capacities that the demonstration of the installation on 150 kW by the end of this year does not seem to be a fantasy at all.

[igorbrsv]

Thank. Information is useful for general development. Apparently not in vain, and we have built similar

[Kirill Dou]

No wonder, naturally. Designers are not stupid obviously inefficient weapons to develop.

[SETTGF]

Privalov! I’m not tired of stupidity to write about this type of weapon and other effects when it is used ... Learn the physics of processes for a start! And don't forget to watch the performance of Israeli analyst Jacob Kedmi!

[SETTGF]

And what is the capacity of the Peresvet installation? "Die surprisingly." Once and for all, forget the way to the Military Review website - write nonsense from open sources ...

[Ros 56]

The truck breaks down, does not reach.

[Lawyer]

Active cooling mirror surface and lasers will be useless.

[SETTGF]

Jurist! You are a little wrong! The mirror surface cannot reflect the beam of the X-ray laser - therefore, the mirror will immediately become worthless ...

[SETTGF]

However, now there is no powerful X-ray laser ... boulders from the USA could not make a nuclear-pumped X-ray laser as part of their SDI program in the 80s of the last century!