A powerful 50 kW laser will be tested with kinetic weapons: what will it give a military
This decision was announced by the high military ranks of the Pentagon at a special symposium on the development of the US Army. According to Lieutenant General Robert Rash Director of Army Operational and Critical Technology (RCCTO): "We are able to use directed energy systems, but we still do not know how The battlefield.
" Rush and his team are instructed to observe the development of three directed energy programs, including RTX (formerly Raytheon) over the near-air defense system of a near-action-based energy-based, or de M-sharad, to counteract drones, rockets and a landscapes. Currently, the company has set up three prototypes, the fourth is expected in September.
As soon as all four cars will be in the platoon, it will start developing tactics, methods and procedures and training with them before future rapid assessment. Soldiers will also test both systems together to find the most successful combination of their capabilities. One of the factors of the military interest in laser and kinetic weapons is the need to save the cost of ammunition and their logistics.
"We use directional energy because we cannot afford to have a lot of air defense missiles where we would like," Rash says. He notes that energy weapons are much cheaper. But such systems must be very reliable. However, the military also emphasize the problems with laser weapons that may arise in the future. One of them is the technological complexity of such systems, as well as the need for the construction of additional compositions of components for laser maintenance.