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Current Navy SSL Development Efforts
The Navy is now developing SSLs with improved capability for countering surface craft and UAVs, and eventually a capability for countering ASCMs. Navy efforts to develop these more capable lasers include:
· the Solid State Laser Technology Maturation (SSL-TM) effort;
· the Ruggedized High Energy Laser (RHEL);
· the Optical Dazzling Interdictor, Navy (ODIN);
· the Surface Navy Laser Weapon System (SNLWS) Increment 1, also known as the high-energy laser with integrated optical dazzler and surveillance (HELIOS); and
· the High Energy Laser Counter-ASCM Program (HELCAP).
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That’s why the service envisions its Surface Navy Laser Weapon System evolving in three stages, Peterkin said:
· Increment 1 is the 60 kW HELIOS laser being installed on ships to destroy drones and cripple small attack craft;
· Increment 2 will ramp up the power enough to take side shots against cruise missiles, so a ship with it installed can use it to defend other ships nearby, but not itself; and
· Increment 3 will be still more powerful, able to burn through the nose-cone in a headon shot, allowing a ship with it installed to defend itself. 18
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RHEL reportedly is “a 150-kilowatt laser that will apparently employ ‘different laser architectures’ that will handle more powerful laser beams eventually.” 24 The Navy’s FY2020 budget submission states that Budget Activity 3 development (i.e., advanced technology development) associated with RHEL was completed in FY2019; 25 that HELCAP, discussed below, was previously known as RHEL Phase II; 26 and that HELCAP will leverage, among other things, “Alternative Laser Sources for higher powers, also known as the Ruggedized High Energy Laser (RHEL) activities.” 27 Congress added about $11.6 million in development funding for RHEL in FY2018; the funding was used for “long lead procurement for the beam director required to support integrated laser weapons system testing, mission analysis, lethality and defeat of anti-ship cruise missile threats.” 28
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Arun Mathew
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The U.S. Army is developing a new 300kW-class laser weapon prototype under the Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser (IFPC-HEL) program.
The IFPC-HEL effort stems from a previous science and technology program known as the High Energy Laser Tactical Vehicle Demonstrator (HEL-TVD), which featured a 100 kW-class laser integrated on a Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV) platform.
Under the new IFPC-HEL program, the Army plans to demonstrate the 300kW-class laser weapon capability in FY 2022 and deliver four operational, 300 kW-class IFPC-HEL prototypes integrated on tactical vehicles to a platoon by FY 2024.
The IFPC-HEL system is intended to protect fixed and semi-fixed sites from rockets, artillery and mortars (RAM); unmanned aerial systems (UAS); and rotary and fixed-wing threats. Additionally, the IFPC-HEL system can be used to defeat more stressing threats.
In November, the Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO) sponsored a High Energy Laser Scaling Initiative (HELSI) contract award by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and completed a critical design effort in support of the IFPC-HEL effort.
On Nov. 25, an OSD HELSI contract was awarded to Lockheed Martin and Aculight Corporation supporting the demonstration of a stand-alone 300kW-class HEL system. The company is one of three high energy laser producers participating in the OSD-led initiative to develop and lab test a 300 kW-class laser in FY22. The Army is the OSD designated proponent for Lockheed Martin in this initiative, while the other companies are Nutronics, Inc., sponsored by the Navy, and General Atomics, sponsored by the Air Force.
On Jan. 24, the Army modified an existing contract with Dynetics that adjusts the previous contract for HEL-TVD in support of the higher-powered IFPC-HEL demonstration and will inform a decision to build four prototype systems. This comes after the Army completed the HEL-TVD Critical Design Review on Nov. 7, marking the official transition to the IFPC-HEL effort.
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Silver Surfer escribió:El barco anfibio USS Portland (LPD-27) derribó un avión no tripulado con un arma láser durante una primera prueba en el mar del sistema de armas láser de alta energía de la Armada.
La Armada actualmente está desarrollando y probando una cartera de armas láser, algunas de las cuales son más poderosas pero solo adecuadas para barcos con mayores capacidades de generación de energía, como el transporte anfibio clase San Antonio (LPD-17), mientras que otras son menos poderosas pero podría desplegarse en una mayor variedad de barcos, incluido el destructor clase Arleigh Burke.
En esta prueba, Portland disparó su arma láser de alta potencia contra un vehículo aéreo no tripulado mientras operaba en Pearl Harbor, Hawái, el 16 de mayo, anunció hoy la Flota del Pacífico de EE. UU. En un comunicado de prensa.
Kique escribió:US Navy Tests Laser Weapon System
https://navalnews.net/us-navy-tests-las ... on-system/
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