Though we know he has a fetish for large things that go boom, the KoB sent in this tip on something that’s silent and invisible.<\/p>\n
Firing lasers from fighter jets while in combat, hitting enemy hypersonic missiles in space and incinerating enemy drones from armored combat vehicles are all missions intended for fast-emerging, now-in-development laser weapons.<\/p>\n
Lasers and many laser technologies such as rangefinders and spotters are of course already used in many applications, including deployed Navy ships. At the same time, the Pentagon and military services are moving quickly to develop newer, stronger, more-mobile laser weapons. Much of this includes \u201claser scaling\u201d and \u201csize, weight and power\u201d improvements intended to engineer lasers able to arm fighter jets and even destroy enemy ICBMs in space.<\/p>\n
Army scientists and weapons developers are working to engineer lasers strong and durable enough to travel into space and seeking to build compact, transportable, smaller-form-factor lasers able to integrate into fast-moving, fighter jets and transportable soldier devices. The Missile Defense Agency is now \u201cpower scaling\u201d lasers in preparation for using them for missile defenses, the Air Force Research Laboratory is miniaturizing strong mobile power systems to fire lasers from fighter jets and the Army is already arming Stryker vehicles with laser weapons.<\/p>\n
Now, Army developers and New York University scientists may have achieved a technical breakthrough enabling weapons developers to engineer stronger, longer-range and more durable laser weapons. The breakthrough pertains to complex scientific advancement with optics and photons at the molecular and most elemental levels. Researchers are now able to engineer what\u2019s called a 3D photonic crystal lattice structure better able to contain and streamline the application of laser light.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
There’s no word on if the Navy is installing these on the heads of sharks, but they’d be idiots if they didn’t.<\/p>\n
Source; Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"