Navy Laser Gun Shoots down UAV
From the Navy press release ( 5/29/2010 )...
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), with support from Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Dahlgren, for the second time successfully tracked, engaged, and destroyed a threat representative Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) while in flight May 24 at San Nicholas Island, Calif.
This marks the first detect-thru-engage laser shoot-down of a threat representative target in an over-the-water, combat representative scenario.
A total of two UAV targets were engaged and destroyed in a maritime environment during the testing, the second series of successes for the U.S. Navy's Laser Weapon System (LaWS) Program.
Members of NAVSEA's Directed Energy and Electric Weapon Systems (DE&EWS) Program Office (PMS 405), Program Executive Office for Integrated Warfare Systems (PEO IWS), Raytheon Missile Systems, and NSWC Dahlgren fired a laser through a beam director on a KINETO Tracking Mount, controlled by a MK 15 Close In Weapon System (CIWS). This brings to a total of seven UAVs destroyed by the Surface Navy's first tactical development for fielding a Directed Energy weapon system.
Many thanks to AccurateShooter for sending me the link.
note the Penn State logo on the side of the main optics tube…
-D
The next project is to build a giant genetically-engineered cyborg shark on the head of which to mount this thing.
Give Apple a few years and this damn thing will be on the I phone
The terrorist better watch out now we got lasers lol
I bet it sounds like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLn_aNRdvUY
SWEET. God Bless the U.S. Navy. My only question, does it come with a picatinny adapter?
Trango, LOL, yea, its not tactical enough.
At last! My Death Ray is complete! Muwahaha!
reminds me of those internet forum posts where someone puts in CAPS
IMMA FIRIN MAH LAZOR!!!
However this is a nice step forward in using a “laser” as a weapon.
Living in the future is awesome!