US Navy ready to go into battle with laser weapons

The US Navy commissioned the company Northrop Grumman to modify the solid-state laser, which will be installed on warships. In two years of testing, the military concluded that the laser weapon can be used in real combat conditions.

For the first time, a 15-kilowatt laser gun developed by Northrop Grumman was tested in the 2011 year. One of the ships of the US Navy destroyed an inflatable boat from a new gun. The modified version will be used in real combat, said Steve Hickson, vice president of the arms company. The laser machine, he said, is planned to be made sufficiently reliable and affordable for widespread use.

After the first tests in 2011, it was decided that 15 kilowatts is not enough to destroy enemy targets in combat conditions. The head of the Naval Forces Research Department, Rear Admiral Nevin Carr, then stated that for the destruction of, for example, a military cruise missile would need to be installed several dozen times more powerful.

In addition to Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions are developing laser weapons for the US Army. The latter have already created a solid-state installation LaWS (Laser Weapon System), which in 2014 is planned to equip the Ponce landing dock ship serving in the Persian Gulf. This laser gun is known to be able to blind and hit Drones the enemy and help the ships direct anti-aircraft missiles at targets.

Comments

[klimpopov]

As the name does not match the text ...

[patline]

Yes, about this laser already tired of reading and commenting. PR for pumping dough.
Well, once I’ve started, then I’ll finish: Methods of counteracting the laser are simple to idiocy - fog, dust, smoke screen, in the end, the reflection of the beam to the source or to another target.

[Sleptsoff]

There is no dust in the ocean, fogs are rare, cruise missiles with reflectors and smoke screens do not exist.

[Lord of the Sith]

Put you +
I think they can develop a new coverage for RCC.

[Slayer]

billions in the laser creation, as always, swell, and counteracting it costs a couple of thousand, an ordinary mirror))

[knn54]

klimpopov: Somehow the name does not match the text ...
Mb. -American military sailors are not ready to go into battle without laser weapons.
Sleptsoff: There is no dust in the ocean, fogs are rare ...
Soviet experiments of the 70–80s showed that the scattering of laser radiation due to moisture droplets in the air above the sea is very large. To remove the scattering problem, a laser with a very small wavelength must be used, which is technically very difficult.
True, for LARGE air defense and missile defense (?), Ship lasers can have advantages over existing anti-aircraft artillery systems.

[Joker]

Well, it went capozakidatelstvo Maybe there is no sense from him (from the laser), but at least a start has been made, Moscow didn’t build right away, gradually finish it, allocate money, attract scientists, we also need to develop in this area, without much zeal, of course, we don’t have a cold war I need something, we’ll figure it out for ourselves, we’ll get something (I don’t see anything wrong with that)

[Melchakov]

Quote: Joker

while there is no sense from him (

This is not the point. Why was "volcanoes" removed. We left the "sevens", and then put on this miracle. The laser should be placed where the YSU is. EMLO.

[T-100]

Well this is how much electricity will need to be generated, they will have to put a nuclear power plant on each ship. What is the range, I hope at least 15 km, and in fog, cloudy, how will they work? In general, to a large military use is still far away !!!

[Canep]

Smoke bombs completely neutralize this miracle weapon, which I suppose is worthless.

[Canep]

Quote: Canep

Smoke bombs completely neutralize this miracle weapon

And I'm not talking about rain, snow, fog, cloud cover, etc.

[Bykov.]

Quote: Canep

... And I'm not talking about rain, snow, fog, cloud cover, etc. ...

And the mirror, no one has yet forbidden ... not to mention the energy consumption, this "wunderwaffen".

[Pimply]

Especially since the mirror reflects the laser only if it is an ideal mirror at an ideal angle.

[dima1970]

There is a concept "angle of incidence - angle of reflection", "ideal angle" does not occur in physics. In any case, a fairly large part of the energy of the beam will go into space and it can turn into an ordinary sunbeam.

[tchack]

To reflect that mirror will reflect, there is another problem: the laser will still cut the mirror by the influence of thermal energy ...

It is easy to check with a powerful laser pointer (2000 mW). If you hold the laser beam in one place for a long time, for example, on the thermometer of a thermometer, then the temperature will rise ...

To reflect thermal energy in the UV range, an athermal coating of the mirror is necessary.

[Pimply]

I recommend reading about the new generation of lasers.

[Hudo]

Quote: Pimply

I recommend reading about the new generation of lasers.

Probably Chubais nayseysal? How have you heard! Young red hair from **** vomits and makes nano-lasers, well, very expensive .....

[Anton Karpenko]

Bumpy, rockets in flight can rotate - this alone will reduce the effectiveness of the laser effect tenfold. Further, there are heat-resistant coatings with a very high melting point - for example, a heat-insulating substance with which Buran was covered, or its analogue on American shuttles. It is not so difficult to make a cooling system for the rocket nose - let it work at full power for only five seconds, during this time the missile defense system will fly 2-3 kilometers practically without heating. All these measures make the use of lasers completely useless.

[Scandinavian]

These weapons are promising in nature and if the West finds their optimal use against our missiles in the near future it may not be very sweet for us, especially for our RZK and Iskander. I hope our smart heads in design bureaus are already looking for a counterweight to this striped implementation.

[rpek32]

Scandinavian, read the article: http://voprosik.net/lazernoe-oruzhie-v-ssha-obman/

[karbofos]

rpek32 thanks for the link. very informative, there is something to oppose the American trolls.

[ovgorskiy]

This weapon is promising.

This weapon is not promising, but a dead end. Americans developed a more or less decent laser for air-based laser weight 10 tons, power approx. 1 MW. With a low laser efficiency, the power plant should be of the order of 10 MW (for reference: diesel engine power of 2 MW), can you imagine such a design? As I understand it, even such a laser was recognized as not effective. And the lasers that Hollywood shows should not have a power of 1, but 10 or 100 MW. In short, a laser and a nuclear power plant in addition.

[True]

Key Features of USS George HW Bush (CVN-77):
Displacement: 97 tons
Length: 332,8 m
along the waterline - 317 m
Width: 76,8 m
along the waterline - 40,8 m
Draft: 11,3 m
Engines 2 reactors, 4 turbines
Power 260 000 l. with. (191 MW)

[ovgorskiy]

Oddly enough, but with such a power plant on an aircraft carrier, there is a shortage of energy from the launch catapult of the aircraft, and the laser add (5%) of power. And the aircraft carrier needs not one laser, but 6-8 pieces, what will you power them with?

[vitas]

Everything was discussed in the last topic, Americans' lasers are useless shit !!!

[Uncle]

Quote: vitas

lasers of americans useless shit !!!

Yes, there are so many laser specialists, I just shrunk! They write about pointers, about a bunny, and people cut steel with lasers at a time, give a drawing, get a part, cut like an autogen, but without a trace. And such equipment is full, I see no problem to increase the range, if the source of energy is unlimited power. And do not tell me about the scattering of the beam, the laser does not have it.

[vitas]

Hold native

http://voprosik.net/lazernoe-oruzhie-v-ssha-obman/

[scutum]

they cut it, but at what distance? and not scattering - but the absorption of quanta of electromagnetic radiation by the medium in which it propagates. But about an energy source of unlimited power - is this type of cold fusion already used everywhere?

[JonnyT]

Why not with a plasma gun? PR - so PR in full!

[kostiknet]

Quote: JonnyT

Why not with a plasma gun?

And J. Lucas will drag them through the courts, suspecting plagiarism of "Star Wars" But in general - more amers lasers, Jedi and Darth Vader !! (go crazy so big )

[HAM]

At this time, in order to shoot down a rocket, at least, you need to stop it for a while, a dozen seconds to burn it. And the power of lasers is measured in mega joules or gigajoules, but not in kilowatts. A laser pointer is more effective in "shooting down" aircraft.

[Strezhevchanin]

Each laser has its own torpedo !!! We will finish off missiles.

[Sochi]

If you look at the history of weapons inventions, then they just didn’t come up with ... but only what we use now remains. Only now, exoticism was rarely adopted, after the first battles it was usually written off.

[Dima190579]

First, they wanted to put this laser on an airplane. Now they’ll put it on the ship and then on the engine.

[Ulysses]

Do not dazzle the homing head with a laser pencil.

[tchack]

They will blind a potential adversary by directing a laser into the eye ...
Level 100 Bullies ...

[gregor6549]

Again hysteria about the next "wunderwaffe". Yes, in clear weather, a non-maneuvering single target that can be detected in time and put on steady tracking by standard shipborne reconnaissance and target detection equipment, i.e. radars, electro and simply optics, perhaps it will be possible to attach the muzzle to the ocean.
But who will attack the ship alone these days? Is that a kamikaze and a bad one. So they have long been bred. And with a massive stellar attack (i.e. from all directions) and with intense interference, including for lasers (fumes, etc., which impairs air transparency in the path of the laser beam), all these lasers will be losers.

[IRBIS]

One of the ships of the US Navy destroyed an inflatable boat from a new gun.
Well, we don’t have inflatable boats in service. Neither surface nor underwater - all, for some reason, are metal. And they, infections, also shoot back with all sorts of nastiness.
Development is good, but at the level of existing technologies, so far it is all from the field of moral influence on the psyche of Somali pirates. No more.

[tchack]

One of the ships of the U.S. Navy destroyed an inflatable woman on an inflatable boat from a new gun.
This is progress ...

[Ezhaak]

Quote: tchack

And they, infections, also shoot back with all sorts of nastiness.

Rejoice that they do not shoot at inflatable targets with spermatosaurs.
You just try to imagine such a picture.

[Canep]

Quote: IRBIS

Well, we don’t have inflatable boats in service.

In arsenal there are inflatable boats
The small inflatable boat LMN is intended for crossing small infantry groups, reconnaissance groups, conducting engineering reconnaissance of water obstacles by engineering reconnaissance groups, organizing evacuation and rescue services and river outposts at crossings, performing various auxiliary tasks when building pontoon bridges or organizing ferry crossings.

[shamil]

I'll burn it with a magnifying glass

[k220150]

All inflatable and success and courage and boats with women

[True]

Exactly!

[Ezhaak]

US Navy ready to go into battle with laser weapons

And then

The U.S. Navy instructed Northrop Grumman to finalize a solid-state laser, which will be installed on warships.

The second sentence states that the laser is not only not yet ready, but has never even been installed on a warship.
The article is essentially about nothing. IMHO

[bulvas]

surprised by the local "objective" critics
once computers weighed hundreds of tons and took up huge spaces
today NASA has learned how to build satellites based on a phone with Android

where are we with our critics?

with laser weapons it will be even worse. There is a hope that among real people there are much less "objective" critics like here.

[No_more]

This was not a fundamental problem, but a purely engineering (technical) one. There is a fundamental problem here and it consists in the fact that the amount of energy necessary to hit a target is created at all the distance from the gun mount to the target. It’s the same as if, in order to defeat a tank, it was necessary to generate a cumulative stream all the time the projectile approached the target.
Lasers in dense atmospheres will never be effective at distances greater than a few meters. Effective, in this case, means: to have advantages over other means of destruction.
If you want the future so much, then I can safely say that it is behind the railguns, the shot of which is much cheaper, and the striking ability is orders of magnitude higher. And in view of the enormous velocity of the projectile, you can save on guided missiles, because there’s not enough time to make a maneuver to dodge, you only need a very short 100% predictable portion of the target’s trajectory, which is enough for approach and defeat.

[1c-inform-city]

Dear bulvas, it’s not the critics, but the laws of physics.

[bulvas]

the laws of physics allow you to transfer energy using a laser beam
You can achieve the effectiveness of such a transfer, but for this you will have to sweat and decently spend. Even better is to start putting these laws into practice and gain experience from it.

How did the first planes fly? - on parole
Who flew them? Who built them with their own money? - Crazy?

and where would we be now if not for these enthusiasts?

[No_more]

The fact is that there was no worthy alternative for airplanes, and for the laser, there were a lot of alternatives as a means of destruction. Why is the laser so good, what is the advantage?
Laser weapons would be perfect for airless space, but there are better options in our dense turbulent atmosphere.

[sys-1985]

They will now have new amusement to launch balloons and shoot at them from the mega-cool prodigy. After an accurate hit, they will clap their hands together! :)

[sys-1985]

In general, we should sincerely rejoice at their "genius and success" in building something that cannot be.

[bulvas]

Quote: sys-1985

... building what cannot be

no matter how I have to add to this phrase " we"

[Lone gunman]

in general, the successes of amers have already snapped ...


but I believe in the "bright" future of Russia

[shamil]

and if the rocket is given rotation along the longitudinal axis, how much should it be heated

[Lone gunman]

long and hard ...

[APASUS]

What a hat!
They destroyed the rubber boat ?!
And if it will be a highly maneuverable target in cloudy weather ??