{"id":199705,"date":"2007-07-04T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/04\/death-rays-due-in-a-few-years\/"},"modified":"2007-07-04T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T15:40:00","slug":"death-rays-due-in-a-few-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/04\/death-rays-due-in-a-few-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Rays Due in a Few Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike the chemical lasers used in the Boeing 747 demonstrator, solid state lasers are much more likely to be tactically usable.<\/p>\n<p>Cooling could be a real bear though.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2007\/07\/02\/215271\/northrop-grumman-demonstrates-high-power-laser-building.html\">Northrop Grumman demonstrates high-power laser building block<\/a><\/span><br \/>By Graham Warwick<\/p>\n<p>High-power solid-state lasers could be fielded within four years if the US military funds its growing interest in directed-energy weapons, believes Northrop Grumman. The company says it is on track to demonstrate a lethal 100kW-class solid-state laser late next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With funding, we could put a 25kW laser out there in less than two years and 100kW in three to four years,&#8221; says Mike McVey, vice-president for directed-energy systems for Northrop Grumman Space Technology. A 10-20kW laser could blind sensors while a 100kW weapon would allow an airborne platform to take out radar sites and destroy vehicles, he says<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike the chemical lasers used in the Boeing 747 demonstrator, solid state lasers are much more likely to be tactically usable. Cooling could be a real bear though. Northrop Grumman demonstrates high-power laser building blockBy Graham Warwick High-power solid-state lasers could be fielded within four years if the US military funds its growing interest in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1211,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199705"}],"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=199705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}