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Las pruebas de un HEL de 50 kW sobre Stryker han demostrado la destrucción de varias municiones de mortero de 60 mm:
¿Opinar que parece que será una capa defensiva adicional interesante y que se debe invertir en ella?
Atticus escribió:¿Opinar que parece que será una capa defensiva adicional interesante y que se debe invertir en ella?
Exactamente a eso. Si solo puedes disparar cada quince minutos, no lo puedes contemplar como "capa", ni como sayo. Todo lo mas, un bonito extra para ciertas ocasiones. Pero "capa", no. Y esta el peligro de darle una importancia en tu defensa que la tecnica no puede respaldar. Al dia de hoy se ha llegado a ciertos limites en estos desarrollos, y esos limites llevan mas o menos estables desde hace demasiado tiempo sin practicamente importar los fondos invertidos. Aqui nos topamos con la famosa "tecnologia disruptiva" de la que dependen tantos power point para el futuro. Algo que tendra que surgir como magia para arreglar unos limites que, al dia de hoy, no sabemos como afrontar. Digo de curvar el entusiasmo no porque no crea en que haya que invertir, sino porque el tema todavia anda muuuuuy pez para muchas cosas que se dice que se quiere hacer con el practicamente mañana por la mañana. No. Aun queda mucho tiempo para Star Wars. En realidad, tomense mis palabras como la opinion de que todos los recursos al dia de hoy estan mejor invertidos en seguir investigando que en pretender llevar al campo de batalla una tecnologia incapaz todavia. Si tienes veinte millones, gastatelos en el laboratorio todos. No te gastes diez en laboratorio y diez en un sistema inutil. Ojo, que tambien creo que hay mucha confusion. Estamos confundiendo el despliegue de algunos prototipos para experimentacion con un despliegue operativo. Mejor no nos confundamos.
cuando lo cierto es que se PUBLICITAN avances en potencia, capacidad de enfoque y distancia de enfoque varias veces al año en el conjunto de proveedores.
no es lo mismo que dañar un dron LSS
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HIGH ENERGY LASER (HEL) RAPID PROTOTYPING STATEMENT OF WORK (SOW)
C.1 INTRODUCTION
The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD), Gun & Electric Weapon Systems Department (E), Directed Energy and Pulse Power Division (E10) actively provides support to NSWCDD in the areas of design, development, system and platform integration, and deployment of laser and electro-optical (EO) systems and components. Supported systems include solid-state high energy laser (HEL) weapon systems; solid state laser technologies for high power capable systems; low energy lasers and ocular interrupter technologies; other pulsed lasers and continuous wave lasers; tracking and controls; predictive avoidance technologies; electro-optical/infrared sensors and data fusion systems, including gated imaging systems; imaging processing systems; weapon mounted beam directors; weapon control architecture and console, power and cooling; and fire control and combat system hardware interfaces to radar systems. For the purposes of this SOW, all of these systems will be referred to simply as "laser/EO systems" and are focused on Naval and expeditionary platforms and deployment. E10 actively supports the Department of Defense by providing laser/EO system design and fabrication, rapid prototyping, and rapid technology insertion.
C.2 SCOPE
The purpose of this requirement is for the fabrication and delivery of prototypes and equipment in accordance with Government appropriate and qualified drawings, requirements, spec sheets, and/or data packages to be provided at the Delivery Order level. The Contractor shall provide hardware fabrication, laser/EO, optical and opto-mechanical fabrication, hardware, integration for beam control and tracking, and integration for hardware prototypes or prototype production units and kits, source power and thermal management manufacturing and equipment for hardware prototypes or prototype production units and kits, source power and thermal management manufacturing and equipment.
The intent of this requirement is to obtain prototypes and fabrication data for prototypes to enable the Government to use the prototypes and data for a variety of purposes including competitive procurement of production-level products. To that end, the Government will have at least Government Purpose Rights in all noncommercial data delivered pursuant to this contract and the individual Delivery Orders. Deliverables shall be complete as required by this contract, but shall not incorporate any noncommercial data subject to Limited Rights or Restricted Rights without the express written consent of the Contracting Officer.
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Lockheed Martin delivers airborne laser weapon to US Air Force
12 July 2022
Lockheed Martin has developed a directed energy weapon capable of being mounted on a fighter jet and turned it over to the US Air Force.
in the first quarter of 2022 it turned over its Laser Advancements for Next-generation Compact Environments (LANCE) high-energy laser to the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
Lockheed says it is continuing to progress along the development roadmap for its directed energy weapons, “which aims to achieve systems in the 5-10kg/kW range in the near future to enable employment on tactical aircraft”.
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Lockheed was awarded a $26 million AFRL contract in 2017 to develop such a laser that could be mounted on a fighter, as part of the Self-protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD) programme.
The company claims that LANCE is the smallest and lightest high-energy laser of its class ever built.
“LANCE demonstrates our ability to deliver a high energy laser with the power density and ruggedisation to enable a deployable tactical airborne laser weapon that supports future force modernisation for the US Department of Defense,” Lockheed says.
The laser itself is meant to be mounted on a tactical jet as an external pod. The ultimate intent for the system is for shooting down incoming tactical weapons, such as air-to-air or surface-to-air missiles.
The original 2017 contract Lockheed received outlined three components of an overall defensive laser system: the pod to power and cool the laser, LANCE itself and a beam control system to target the laser.
The AFRL’s Directed Energy Directorate, based at Kirtland AFB in New Mexico, has been investing heavily in research and development of energy weapons over the past 10 years. The office boasts an annual budget of $355 million, according to the AFRL.
Kelly Hammett, who in June left his job as the head of the directorate after six years in the post, notes in a 13 June statement that during that period his team “built and field-tested 10 new systems that didn’t exist before 2016”.
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