The ZEUS system with a laser will prevent any mine

One of the most dangerous military professions is the sapper profession. Only one mistake, and ... It becomes clear that the military is trying in every way to minimize the risk during operations for the disposal of explosive devices through the use of modern technology. A clear fact of this is the laser system "HLONS" (HMMWV Laser Ordnance Neutralization System), better known under the code name "ZEUS". Is this system "energy weapons directional action. Its solid state laser produces a pulse of power in 10 KW. This will be quite enough to explode at a distance to 300 meters of unexploded ordnance and all sorts of explosive devices.

A distinguishing feature from traditional demining methods, where people or Robotswho understand the design of explosive devices and how to clear them, ZEUS technologies provide the ability to neutralize, regardless of its design, almost any explosive device with maximum efficiency. The ZEUS laser system can turn on up to 2000 times a day, and on average it takes no more than 30 seconds to detonate the charge. One of the important advantages of the ZEUS system is that the service personnel who work with the system manage the operations inside the Hammer armored car. Therefore, the crew is perfectly protected from enemy fire and fragments flying from explosions.

In 1996, the ZEUS system was designed by the military research center for laser and energy weapons (High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility, HELSTF). The system was tested and tested before the 2003 year at the White Sands Missile Range test site in the state of New Mexico. Immediately after the test, the system passed its first baptism of fire in Afghanistan. Within six months, the ZEUS system was able to neutralize more than two hundred subversive devices, and the system became a kind of record holder - an explosive device was defused within a hundred minutes. After the Afghan campaign, ZEUS continued its service in Iraq, where it was used not as intended, but as a laser weapon.

Comments

[rumpeljschtizhen]

..we have mine in general in my opinion everything is bad

[Leo848]

The article missed the idea of ​​detecting the mine itself, the laser device can probably destroy an explosive object, but to find it, and even in the field -Yes, I would like to know more about the power installation of the laser device, the power and number of pulses on mobile traction of such auto-fiction in my opinion .

[Honory]

Exactly, but what about the detection of mines. They have to look for all the same people.