U.S. successfully tests airborne laser on missile

Originally posted by Phage

A laser produces a beam of coherent amplified electromagnetic energy. It will work on any flying object, identified or otherwise.

Phew....

For a second there I thought you were going shock everybody here at ATS and say something else.



Getting closer buddy.

Originally posted by Eurisko2012
reply to post by Phage

 

I wonder what the range is??? 100 miles? 2,000 miles?
Is weather a factor?

I'm not Phage[Obviously] but I remember reading something about it having a distance limitation due to Earth's gravity. Remember gravity it bends light.

reply to post by SLAYER69


I found it all on Wikipedia.
range is 300 to 600 kilometers = about 375 miles
Not bad.
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I think i could extend that range if you aim it with a gravity lense.



[edit on 13-2-2010 by Eurisko2012]

reply to post by Eurisko2012

Weather would be a factor but presumably the aircraft is flying high enough to avoid most of it. Likewise the target would be up there by the time it gets fired on.

The range is said to be on the order of 200 km (I have my doubts) but the real trick is in keeping the beam locked on the target long enough.

It's a "cool" thing but it's real usefulness is questionable. An ICBM is in boost phase for less than five minutes, accelerating rapidly the whole time. This means that to be able to shoot it down you have to be in the neighborhood, detect the launch, and track the missile long enough to burn it. Tricky.

reply to post by MysterE

"High Energy Laser beam racing toward it at 670 million miles per hour, Northrup Grumman corp.", said in a statement.

Boeing's beacon of hope.....

I understand it is to have alot of cosmic target practice.
Interesting how they allowed a comet to hit Mexico the other day.
I suppose it's a message of the times.

ASAT The anti-satellite and 'such' weapon.....

Wow, these folks sure are afraid of something!
That's alot of technology, for the times.....


[edit on 13-2-2010 by Perseus Apex]

Originally posted by MysterE


Take that Ahmadinejad! You want to get tough with your enriched uranium... Well were shooting rockets out of the sky with freaking lasers! This is certianly a monumental advancement in missil defence, as well as other applications. Techonlogy is advancing so fast, it is hard to keep up with!



[edit on 12-2-2010 by MysterE]

Better hurry up and start another war, eh?

Very enlightened attitude, still at least your not alone. I would like to know what other applications you see for this weapons platform.

Originally posted by MysterE
reply to post by SLAYER69

 

That weapon is intense, If I see that sucker pop up, im out of there (if I can make it)

-E-

If you see it, you're still alive, that means it isn't coming after you. If it was after you, you'd have been toast long before you see it.

Originally posted by MysterE
reply to post by archasama

 

Iran is dangerous, their dictatorship is opressive to their own people, and constantly threatens a whole race with inialation (much like Hitler). It's like giving a child a big gun and expecting him to use it properly.

-E-

What hogwash. Iran has never threatened "a whole race" with annihilation. Try denying ignorance for once.

Originally posted by bkaust

Originally posted by MysterE

Would have been much cooler if it were "frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their frickin' heads" ;p

We deny any such weapon, as we also denied the Stealth Bomber for a decade.DoD

An Art'ist reminds the artist that art itself can only mimic divine design; Nature Is it's own 'spin' on matter.

[edit on 13-2-2010 by Perseus Apex]

directed energy weapon systems seem to be the direction the us military is heading in, i remember reading about a project called shiva star in the hunt for zero point.excellent book by the way.

In the early 1990s, the US Air Force was preparing tests at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, designed to lead to a ground-based plasma-weapon in the late 1990s capable of firing plasma bullets at incoming ballistic missile warheads. The enabling technology was a 'fast capacitor bank' called Shiva Star that could store 10 million joules of energy and release it instantaneously. Officials anticipated firing bullets at 3,000km/sec in 1995 and 10,000km/sec - 3% of the speed of light - by the turn of the century. The tests absorbed little more than a few million dollars of annual funding (Jane's Defence Weekly 29 July 1998). Dumped into the 'soft' electronics of a re-entry vehicle, the bullets were envisaged as destroying multiple manoeuvring warheads at rapid reacquisition rates. By the second half of the last decade, the Shiva/plasma bullet programme was officially dropped. Observers have remarked on how its sudden disappearance at the time the firing tests were scheduled was redolent of a transition to the classified environment.

interestingly janes also have this to say

The Phantom Works, Boeing's prototyping organisation, has raised the possibility of plasma-based directed-energy weapons equipping a future breed of hypersonic aircraft platforms, such as those favoured for research and development by the Bush administration. George Muellner, vice president and general manager of the Phantom Works, said that it should prove feasible to "skim off" some of the plasma that forms naturally around a M8.0 aerospace vehicle for use by an onboard directed-energy weapon.

nice, hypersonic uavs with plasma weapons systems, this is sci-fi porn

yo yo i posted somthing about this awhile ago and got ignored

www.abovetopsecret.com...

HMMM! Are nukes really an issue? or are they decoys? for scare controll?

edit to fix the tittle to much confusion on nike/nuke sorry

Hey all!

I have seen allot of talk these days about nikes (uses common sense with the word nike please you know what i am meaning, its just less attention getting, in the world of spying on us if u know what i mean huh?)in the news.

With this country testing nikes,this country missing nike plans,yata yata yata ,same old BS from the world power holders Right?

But do we really need to be all that worried about other nikes from other countries?,unless small ,and not long range should we be scared / I say NO!

www.popularmechanics.com...

nextbigfuture.com...

laserstars.org...

news.bbc.co.uk...

lasertechnologynews.blogspot.com...

www.wired.com...

Those are just some of the links to news articles about what we can do to incoming of any kind of anything that can do harm. We have benn able to stop most anything with lasers since 1998

Just do some more searches on the subject, and anyone still scared of nikes from any country. flying/shot/launched/whatever the method of delivery is and actually landing will never ever feel safe. It is next to imposable for it to happen.

I beleive the next event wont be a false flag from another country in the form of an attack , thats the distraction/diversion/missdirection. just my 2 cents

P.S.

I think the next event is unfolding right in front of us ,in the form of a Oubreak (the movie)type of event.

H1N1 pandemic or of the LIKE ,non vaccine takers will be put in detention centers for quarantine,and when nothing can stop the (whatever they use at the time virus)

They will have to round all with the virus up in a faraway place and then a nike will wipe it all away.

just my opion peace all

And that will be the decision that will haunt the POTUS who ever it is when this all plays out

[edit on 14-9-2009 by lycopersicum]


www.popularmechanics.com...

nextbigfuture.com...

laserstars.org...

news.bbc.co.uk...

lasertechnologynews.blogspot.com...

www.wired.com...

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Did anybody see the history channel program last night about death rays and energy weapons?

They claimed a missile was destroyed by a laser in 2000. Of course, this laser was positioned on a ship. Pretty interesting nonetheless.

Everyone is familiar with the amazing force field and energy weapons from sci-fi movies like Star Wars and Star Trek, but are we just a few years away from having that technology at our fingertips? We'll investigate new, top-secret military weaponry and recent inventions like a new airplane mounted laser cannons from Northrop Grumman that can shoot down enemy planes and shoot nuclear missiles out of the sky.

www.history.com...

reply to post by Perseus Apex


I think this is probably Northrup Grumman Energy Beam 2.0.
The Black Project division is probably working with Energy Beam 9.0!
Could this 2.0 version shoot down a Scud missile?
Israel could have used this during the 1991 war with Iraq.

Originally posted by dubiousone

Originally posted by MysterE
reply to post by archasama

 

Iran is dangerous, their dictatorship is opressive to their own people, and constantly threatens a whole race with inialation (much like Hitler). It's like giving a child a big gun and expecting him to use it properly.

-E-

What hogwash. Iran has never threatened "a whole race" with annihilation. Try denying ignorance for once.

I completely agree with you, why don't people get it? Iran is part of the group. They are playing their part in the grand play that WE are so ignorantly watching play out before us. The duped masses are so ignorant to the big picture, it is hilarious to me. Every post I read where someone is calling the leader of Iran, names, I laugh. He is IN ON IT. You can not have a controversy with only one side, you need 2 SIDES to have a conflict or problem. You people need to wake up and stop buying into this crap.

NOTHING happens by chance or accident, it ALL happens for a REASON.

Kymatica

Bad or cloudy weather and MIRRORS are sufficient to deal with the most powerful of lasers.

A mirror surface would reflect approx 99.9% of the laser power. The remaining absorbed by the object may be enough to pop a black balloon or it may not.

These were the MAIN problems with using LASER technologies

Here is a few exerts about it...


Key Data
Aircraft
Boeing 747-400F
Engines
4 x GE engines, type CF6-80C2BSF
Laser Type
Megawatt Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL)
Laser Wavelength
1.315 microns

If the military can get the weapon to work well enough for service, the Airborne Laser aircraft will patrol in pairs at more than 40,000 feet and inside friendly territory, scanning the horizon for missiles. When a missile is detected, a tracking laser beam will illuminate
3. it, and computers will measure the distance and calculate its course and direction.

A second high-energy laser, fired in a three- to five-second burst from the nose turret mounted on the 747, will destroy the missile.

The turret at the nose of the aircraft swivels towards the target and a 1.5m telescope mirror system inside the nose focuses the laser beam onto the missile. The laser beam locks onto the missile, which is destroyed near its launch area within seconds of lock-on.

It seems that in 1997 the plan was for seven jumbos costing a total of $6.12bn. This has now risen to $10.7bn: or maybe a lot more.



peace

reply to post by Phage


yup, so you then need to know the location of the launch, and what is also usually known in these successful tests is the trajectory. Unknown luanch location and unknown trajectory = missile past boost phase.

nice bit of green for Boeing though.

this is old cold war counter strategy against ICBMs.

[edit on 14-2-2010 by surmic]

Prototype airborne laser system, 3.5 Billion dollars.
Copper electroplating, 5 cents a square foot.
Pimping out your ballistic missile or mortar round in copper clad instead of olive drab paint so it reflects everything form UV to far infrared...priceless.

reply to post by hans kammler


Saw this in the latest New Scientist...

Back to square one for missile-busting laser weapons

so do we believe this or are we seeing another shiva star here?