Solid State Laser News

[Grey Havoc]

Mideast, European firms explore collaboration on high-energy lasers

Should collaboration take place, the resulting system would target the UAE as the primary market to secure critical defense infrastructure.

www.defensenews.com

 

[bobbymike]

Israel Seeks US Help On Lasers

After years of favoring missiles, Israel is back in the laser business, with Rafael developing a ground-based 100-kW-class weapon and Elbit an airborne one.

breakingdefense.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

Britain’s ‘Dragonfire’ ship laser gun to get accuracy boost

A ship-borne laser weapon being developed for the U.K. is edging closer to achieving pinpoint accuracy, and it is all being done with mirrors.

www.c4isrnet.com

 

[bobbymike]

Drone-killing, dune buggy-mounted laser gets tested overseas

Affixed to the back of an off-road vehicle, the Raytheon-built High Energy Laser Weapon System uses directed energy to defeat incoming unmanned aerial systems.

www.c4isrnet.com

 

[TomcatViP]

Double posting from US UCAV thread:

Working as part of a layered approach to counter-drone defense, MORFIUS units will be launched at hostile drones, or drone swarms, and then disable them in close proximity, with potentially a gigawatt of microwave power — or, as Lockheed put it, a million times the power of a standard 1,000-watt microwave oven.

Drones Vs. Drones: Lockheed MORFIUS Uses Microwaves To Kill Swarms – Breaking Defense

 

[Ronny]

Double posting from US UCAV thread:

Working as part of a layered approach to counter-drone defense, MORFIUS units will be launched at hostile drones, or drone swarms, and then disable them in close proximity, with potentially a gigawatt of microwave power — or, as Lockheed put it, a million times the power of a standard 1,000-watt microwave oven.

Drones Vs. Drones: Lockheed MORFIUS Uses Microwaves To Kill Swarms – Breaking Defense

Damm that pretty cool

 

[Josh_TN]

I still don't see how they can power an effective HPM in such a small device, even with a close range effect. Surely it must have to be charged ahead of time; I can't see that tiny engine providing the power in a timely fashion.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Something along the lines of a explosively pumped generator perhaps? I wonder if there is any connection to this 2010s U.S. Army EMP grenade project.

The Army is requiring companies participating in the project to design their prototypes to fit the size of "hand or robot delivered munitions, 40 mm grenades, Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs), and Stinger, Hydra, and Javelin missiles." The next step is figuring out a working design itself.

 

[TomcatViP]

Static discharge. That what I proposed long ago (2014) and it should work.
Pre-launch, the charge is passed from the launcher battery to the CUAS and stored in a capacitor (can be structural).
The discharge time from losses is made superior to the vehicle flight time (this is an interceptor).
Charging the battery can be done using the ICE engine of the towing vehicle.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Marines' Drone-Killing Lasers Get Even More Powerful After Upgrades

The Corps has a new $2.5 million agreement with Boeing to service its Compact Laser Weapon System for the next five years.

www.military.com

 

[bobbymike]

Navy Installing More Directed Energy Weapons on DDGs, Conducting Land-Based Laser Testing This Year - USNI News

RIVERDALE, Md. – The Navy continues to learn more about a pair of directed energy weapons, as the service installs the fourth and fifth dazzler system this year and begins land-based testing of a high-energy laser weapon, the program executive officer for integrated warfare systems told USNI...

news.usni.org

 

[bobbymike]

Laser Guns on F-15 Fighters? The U.S. Air Force Has Big Plans. - 19FortyFive

The United States’ flying branch wants laser weapons to not only arm their fighter jets but also to protect airbases from small airborne drone threats.

www.19fortyfive.com

F-15 PEW PEW?