A company-manufacturer of laser systems for military applications from the U.S. presents a defensive system that can be mounted both in a pod and in a fairing. The thing is that the developed defensive fiber laser has been developed for the aircraft industry. A video has been shown and demonstrated two fiber laser systems: a pod installed under the centerline hardpoint, and a fixed device elevated in a fairing.
The operating principle of such defensive systems is based on fiber laser technology that applies an optical fiber as an active gain medium, compared to a solid-state laser system that employs glass or crystalline solid material. The main purpose of the fiber laser is the protection of air, sea and ground assets due to the opportunity to “reduce a threat at the speed of a lightning strike, the accuracy of a surgical scalpel, with the system that can deal with a swarm and with the scalable effect to be able to resist the threat.”
It should be noted that the fiber laser has the laser beam control system that allows delivering the laser onto the target, the pod installed on the tactical fighter jet to increase the laser beam power and cool the system. Moreover, such a fiber laser system can learn on adversary targets to suppress them. Even though the power of the system is not mentioned, specialists claim that it should be in the “tens of kilowatts” range.
Therefore, the laser system with such power enables army men to neutralize numerous air-launched missiles in flight. The developed fiber laser system for the military industry offers such benefits as self-protection against incoming threats, the ability to destroy several targets quickly, compensation for laser beam-spoiling transonic turbulence effects, compact size and reliable design, and the system is suitable for multiple aircraft types.
Herewith, the company also presented a 60 kW combined fiber laser that can emit a single laser beam of 58 kW. The laser system has not been yet tested because of technical challenges and complications caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Moreover, there are some concerns regarding the installation of such a huge laser beam system on an aircraft and its application to neutralize an adversary missile even from very close.
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