The Air Force and the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency spent billions of dollars putting a laser on the nose of the 747 jetliner that would be used to shoot down ballistic missiles. The project was canceled in 2012. Webb acknowledged that the project, which didn’t field an operational aircraft, left a bad taste in people’s mouths.
In 2014, the Navy deployed a laser on an amphibious transport dock in the Persian Gulf. The captain of the ship was
given permission to use the laser as a defensive weapon.
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ΔΙΑΒΑΣΘΕ Π Ρ Ο Σ Ε Κ Τ Ι Κ Α, ΤΙ ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΟΥΝ
ΟΙ ‘ΤΑΜΠΕΛΛΕΣ’ ΑΥΤΕΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΙΚΟΝΑ (ME THN
TOMH) ΣΤΟ ‘C-130’… |
But now,
as DefenseOne.com reports, a laser-armed C-130 project is U.S. Special Operations Command’s top unfunded priority, according to Lt. Gen. Brad Webb, the head of Air Force Special Operations Command.
“I’m pretty optimistic,” Webb said of the project Thursday at an Air Force Association-sponsored conference. “There are a lot of vendors that are really contributing to and continue to push that technology along.”
The plan is to install a relatively low-kilowatt laser, do a “proof of concept and go from there,” Webb said, increasing power laser weapon after it’s proven accurate and effective in testing. The command has money “to do the first steps” of the project.
After a year of talking with “every industry partner who’s ever even touched a laser…I know
the technology has matured now, I believe we can put a high energy laser — offensive and defensive — on an AC-130 by the close of this decade.”
That doesn’t necessarily mean turning the entire future AC-130J fleet into
laser planes, but having “at least four or five of our airplanes modified in this fashion will help.”
NextBigFuture.com notes that The Air Force plans to begin firing laser weapons from larger platforms such as C-17s and C-130s until the technological miniaturization efforts can configure the weapon to fire from fighter jets such as an F-15, F-16 or F-35. Instead of flying with six or seven missiles on an aircraft, a directed energy weapons system could fire thousands of shots using a single gallon of jet fuel.
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ΩΣ ΠΡΟΣΘΕΤΗ ΕΝΗΜΕΡΩΣΗ, ΠΕΡΑΝ ΤΩΝ ΗΔΗ ΥΠΑΡΧΟΝΤΩΝ ΕΠΙΘΕΤΙΚΩΝ ‘ΛΕΪΖΕΡΣ’ ΣΤΑ ΓΝΩΣΤΑ ΑΜΕΡΙΚΑΝΙΚΑ ΤΕΤΡΑΚΙΝΗΤΗΡΙΑ ‘C-130’, ΥΠΑΡΧΟΥΝ ΚΑΙ ΟΙ ΙΔΙΟΙ ΤΥΠΟΙ, ΑΛΛΑ ΜΕ ΚΑΝΟΝΙΚΑ …ΚΑΝΟΝΙΑ!!!
Δ Ε Ι Τ Ε !
ΠΡΟΣ ΤΟ ΠΑΡΟΝ ΑΥΤΑ…