{"id":193710,"date":"2008-11-22T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/22\/ng-announces-plug-in-tactical-laser\/"},"modified":"2008-11-22T06:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T11:59:00","slug":"ng-announces-plug-in-tactical-laser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/22\/ng-announces-plug-in-tactical-laser\/","title":{"rendered":"NG Announces Plug-In Tactical Laser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img230.imageshack.us\/img230\/4040\/62511456139ij9.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img230.imageshack.us\/img230\/4637\/6252gh5.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" \/>The good folks at Northrop Grumman Space Technology have announced a 15kW solid state laser module.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a rack mount, though at 15 kW, your backplane on your rack better have some heavy duty busbars.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the fact that what appears to be a fieldable electrically powered laser is available for military deployment, though it is unclear as to how soon this would actually hit series production, seems to be an important development.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, it is a step up from the expensive and messy chemical lasers that we are seeing in places like Boeing&#8217;s airborne laser, which would appear to need an environmental impact statement each time that it fires.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irconnect.com\/noc\/press\/pages\/news_releases.html?d=154600\">Northrop Grumman Announces the FIRESTRIKE\u2122 Laser, World&#8217;s First Weaponized Solid-State Laser for U.S. Military Services<\/a>:<br \/>&#8216;This is a rugged electric laser with power levels, beam quality and runtime suitable for offensive and defensive military utility. Also available is a newly designed laser current source assembly (LCSA), which is compact, and specifically developed to precisely meet FIRESTRIKE(tm)&#8217;s power needs. Combined with advanced electro optical and\/or infrared sensors, the FIRESTRIKE(tm) laser can provide self-defense, precision strike and enhanced situational awareness capabilities.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good folks at Northrop Grumman Space Technology have announced a 15kW solid state laser module. It&#8217;s a rack mount, though at 15 kW, your backplane on your rack better have some heavy duty busbars. Still, the fact that what appears to be a fieldable electrically powered laser is available for military deployment, though it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1006,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-military","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193710"}],"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=193710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}