Posted on 03/02/2017 10:41:02 AM PST by Red Badger
The Silent Hunter laser is powerful enough to cut through light vehicle armor at up to a kilometer away, making you wonder if China already has more powerful laser weapons only for domestic use. ============================================================================================================================
Poly Technologies showed off The Silent Hunter, one of the world's most powerful laser weapons. It claims an output of at least 50-70 kilowatts, which would make it more powerful than the 33-kilowatt laser weapon systems (LaWS) currently deployed on the USS Ponce. The laser is probably based on a smaller anti-drone laser, the Low Altitude Guard.
That's enough to knock out automobiles by burning out their engines from over a mile away, as the 30-kilowatt Lockheed Martin ATHENA laser demonstrated in 2015. The Silent Hunter uses fibre optic lasers (fibre optics doped with rare earth minerals), which provide weight savings over chemical lasers through increasing optical gain by kilometers of coiled fibre optics (as opposed to bulky chemical lasers).
The Silent Hunter is likely to be scaled up and equipped with radars to complement its optical/infrared tracking system, making it a capable close range defense system against enemy missiles, artillery, drones and aircraft.
The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) recently came out with report that China is "near parity" with western nations in terms of indigenous defense technology.
As we can see from IDEX 2017, that is playing out in fields that range from tanks to lasers. And as the Chinese defense industry innovates more, it will likely grab an even bigger share of international arms sales.
Thank the Clinton Crime Family for selling high tech know-how to the ChiComs back in the 90s.
Just what the world needs.
I was waiting for that...................
It would seem to me that any reasonable amount of battlefield dust or smoke would diffuse any sort of laser to the point where it wouldn’t be effective at all. I’m sure that someone else could speak more authoritatively to this than I, but it just seems that the scatter would cause it to fail ...
Either this laser technology evolves as an effective anti missile weapon or all capital surface ships are outmoded.
“Real Genius”
No ICE.......................
Shares in the Regime Change Investment Club’s retirement plan don’t keep their value if enemies like ISIS and China don’t get manufactured from time to time.
Just hang disco balls from your tank
“Just what the world needs.”
I’d like to see this sort of technology incorporated into power tools. Instead of lugging around a 15 lb worm drive Skilsaw, it would be a 5 lb laser saw with a 12 inch cut depth. Or instead of using a heavy and noisy chainsaw, how about some kind of light saber like tool for cutting down trees or bucking up firewood. How about a laser drill press or hand held “drill” using lasers.
if it’s chinese, why are its markings in english?
Trade show..................
It was on display at an international trade show, IDEX.
Keeping it simple for the chi-coms. in theater use of a laser, far more powerful— from the US side— would come from space, and be more powerful in multiples of 10 to the 3rd power, and no atmosphere to get in the way until the last 4 miles or so— seriously destructive. But wouldn’t expect to see it at a weapons sales expo for mooches from the chinee.
LOL. Wuuuu, wuuuu!!!
Why does the Chinese weapon system have English on the side?
On the good side, it won’t work in six months...
China has been around since long before the Pilgrims set foot on Plymouth Rock.
Nobody needed to “manufacture” them.
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