{"id":191568,"date":"2009-07-25T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/25\/solid-state-laser-ready-for-deployment\/"},"modified":"2009-07-25T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T18:18:00","slug":"solid-state-laser-ready-for-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/25\/solid-state-laser-ready-for-deployment\/","title":{"rendered":"Solid-State Laser Ready for Deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Navy is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;channel=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-07-13&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/07\/13\/AW_07_13_2009_p29-153274.xml\">looking to place a high power solid state laser abroad selected naval vessels in the nest 12-18 months<\/a>. (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">paid subscription required<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>It appears that they will be using Northrop Grumman&#8217;s JHPSSL (Joint High Power Solid-State Laser), which uses 15kw blocks that can be ganged together to create a more powerful beam, as a basis for the weapon, and its intended target is small boats.<\/p>\n<p>As to how viable the system is, if the Navy deploys it to the waters off Somalia&#8217;s coast to fight pirates, then they think that it can be made to work under combat conditions, if not then there is a lack of confidence in the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Navy is looking to place a high power solid state laser abroad selected naval vessels in the nest 12-18 months. (paid subscription required) It appears that they will be using Northrop Grumman&#8217;s JHPSSL (Joint High Power Solid-State Laser), which uses 15kw blocks that can be ganged together to create a more powerful beam, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1006,1161,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-naval","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}