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The AN/SEQ-3 Laser Weapon System or XN-1 LaWS[ 1] is a laser weapon developed by the United States Navy. The weapon was installed on USS Ponce for field testing in 2014. In December 2014, the United States Navy reported that the LaWS system worked perfectly against low-end asymmetric threats, and that the commander of Ponce was authorized to ...
25 km (15.5 statute miles) Maximum speed. 1,100 km/h (680 mph) Guidance. system. laser-guidance. AGM-123 Skipper II is a short-range laser-guided missile developed by the United States Navy. The Skipper was intended as an anti-ship weapon, capable of disabling the largest vessels with a 1,000-lb (450-kg) impact- fuzed warhead.
MIRACL, or Mid-Infrared Advanced Chemical Laser, is a directed energy weapon developed by the US Navy. It is a deuterium fluoride laser, a type of chemical laser . The MIRACL laser first became operational in 1980. [1] It can produce over a megawatt of output for up to 70 seconds, [2] making it the most powerful continuous wave (CW) laser in ...
The U.S. Navy's Laser Weapons System, the first of its kind, launched on the naval ship USS Ponce early. No, it's not "Star Wars" or "Independence Day" -- but it is certainly a step to the war ...
AIM-7 Sparrow. AIM-120 AMRAAM. AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER. JDAM GPS-guided bombs. Paveway laser-guided bombs. CBU-100 Cluster Bomb. B61 nuclear bomb. Mark 82 dumb bomb. Mk 77 incendiary bomb.
The Mark 38 25 mm machine gun system (MGS) is a shipboard weapon system designed to protect warships primarily from a variety of surface threats, especially small, fast surface craft. [1] It consists of an M242 Bushmaster chain gun mounted on a turret that can be either manually or remote controlled, depending on variant.
A laser weapon [2] is a type of directed-energy weapon that uses lasers to inflict damage. Whether they will be deployed as practical, high-performance military weapons remains to be seen. [3] [4] One of the major issues with laser weapons is atmospheric thermal blooming, which is still largely unsolved.
1 × MH-60R/S Seahawk. 2 × MQ-8B Fire Scouts or 1 × MQ-8C Fire Scout [10] The Freedom class is one of two classes of the littoral combat ship program, built for the United States Navy. [20] The Freedom class was proposed by a consortium formed by Lockheed Martin as "prime contractor" and by Fincantieri (project) through the subsidiary ...