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July 19, 2008
Saturday
 
 
Defensive lasers for aircraft
Dale Amon (Belfast, Northern Ireland/Laramie, Wy)  Aerospace

Here is a fascinating teaser for a Janes subscription only article:

US military pinpoints date for HELLADS ground test. The United States military told Jane's it is on schedule for a 2010 ground test of a lightweight high-energy laser that could be installed on a tactical aircraft to destroy missiles, rockets and mortars. The laser, known as the High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS), is being developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and General Atomics, along with several other contractors.

It is all coming together about as I expected, although perhaps a little faster than I really believed.

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The -A (and I think -C) model JSFs have two interesting features. Because they lack the -Bs lift fan they've got a nice lickle space to put stuff and secondly they've got a lot of electrical generating capacity.

I predict interesting applications.


Posted by Nick M at July 19, 2008 01:19 PM

They're going to put a laser that powerful in tactical aircraft? Does that really mean strike fighters like F-35, or are they considering military variants of commercial jets to be "tactical"?


Posted by Eric at July 19, 2008 10:56 PM

It doesn't matter Eric. As long as they can stop a resurgent TOTALITARIAN COLLECTIVISM anything goes. At the moment looks like even a LASER won't be able to achieve that...


Posted by Bogdan of Australia at July 20, 2008 06:36 AM

So when can we expect star destroyers?


Posted by Jon at July 22, 2008 09:03 PM
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