Department of Defense (DOD) development work on high-energy military lasers, which has been underway for decades, has reached the point where lasers capable of countering certain surface and air targets at ranges of about a mile could be made ready for installation on Navy surface ships over the next few years. More powerful shipboard lasers, which could become ready for installation in subsequent years, could provide Navy surface ships with an ability to counter a wider range of surface and air targets at ranges of up to about 10 miles.
Navy Shipboard Lasers for Surface, Air, and Missile Defense: Background and Issues for Congress
2015
60 pages
Report
No indication
English
Optics & Lasers , Military Sciences , Aircraft equipment , Aircraft industry , Aircrafts , Airframes , Boats , Congress , Directed energy weapons , Laser beams , Lasers , Machine guns , National security , Naval operations , Naval warfare , Navy , Unmanned aerial vehicles , Warfare , Weapons effects