School of engineering of the air force institute of Technology Air University, 2003. — 106 p. In March 2000, the High Energy Laser Executive Review Panel presented the Department of Defense Laser Master Plan, which reported that HEL weapons are ready for offensive and defensive applications. One candidate platform capable of performing some of the reported applications is the...
Potomac Books, Louis A. Del Monte, 2021. — 284 p. — ISBN 9781640123304. Война со скоростью света: Оружие направленной энергии и будущее войны двадцать первого века War at the Speed of Light describes the revolutionary and ever-increasing role of directed-energy weapons (such as laser, microwave, electromagnetic pulse, and cyberspace weapons) in warfare. Louis A. Del Monte...
Air Force Inst Of Tech Wright-Patterson, AFB, OH, School Of Engineering, 1980. — 175 p. A computerized simulation model was developed as a flexible tool to aid in the design, deployment, and employment decisions regarding high energy laser weapons. Only the 'space defensive' and 'antisatellite' missions are considered. The simulation models the physical processes of laser...
Prometheus Books, 2019. — 320 p. The whole story of laser weapons with a focus on its many interesting characters and sometimes bizarre schemes. The laser--a milestone invention of the mid-twentieth century--quickly captured the imagination of the Pentagon as the key to the ultimate weapon. Veteran science writer Jeff Hecht tells the inside story of the adventures and...
Québec: Centre de Regierches Pour la Defense, 1978. — 26 p. This report describes the Mark Recorder developed at DREV to record laser weapon fire simulator hits on Polaroid film. This device eliminates the need for .22 calibre practice ranges for tank gunnery training exercises such as consistency-of-lay tests. The document gives the principles of operation and construction...
Routledge, 1982. — 241 p. This is the first comprehensive examination of the issues surrounding the potential development by the United States of a space-based laser weapons program. The authors assess the implications of arms control agreements for a satellite-based laser program, including discussions of recent Soviet space-related arms control initiatives and the forthcoming...
Air War Coll Maxwell, AFB, AL, 1998. — 80 p. Is the DOD pursuing the correct investment strategy for space-based high-energy lasers? Recent advances in lasers, optics, and spacecraft technologies may bring high-energy laser weapons to a sufficient level of maturity for serious consideration as space weapons against the theater ballistic missile threat. An important question is...
Air War Coll Maxwell, AFB, AL, 1998. — 33 p. Is the Department of Defense (DoD) pursuing the correct investment strategy for space-based laser weapons? Recent advances in lasers optics and spacecraft technologies may bring high-energy laser weapons to a sufficient level of maturity for serious consideration as space weapons against the theater ballistic missile threat. However,...
Bloomington: Honeywell Corporate Material Sciences Center, 1977. — 67 p. This report describes work performed in a continuous program of investigations on the mechanisms by which high power pulsed CO2 laser radiation interacts with target surfaces. The experimental work ha erformed using a pulsed TEA laser capable of delivering up to 10 v/cm to the target surface in a pulse of...
Washington: CIA, 1987. — 12 p. Key Judgments Information available as of 30 June 1987 was used in this repori. Soviet and Warsaw Pact low-energy laser rangefinders and laser target out to several hundred to US and NATO soldiers. Several tens of thousands of such systems are deployed... In addition to this existing threat, we believe with high confidence that the Soviets will...
Washington: Office of the Under Secretary of Defense For Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, 2001. — 213 p. — (Defense Science Board Task Force). Several decades of science and technology, concept development, and engineering development have provided the underpinnings for a significant contribution by high-energy lasers (HELs) to national security needs. The potential for...
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016. — 829 p. —ISBN: 9783319312880 Directed energy weapons are nothing new to mankind; historically the origination of such weapons began centuries ago when the famous Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer; Archimedes of Syracuse used different mirrors to collect sunbeams and focused them on the Roman...
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