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Electric laser capable of producing a 100-kilowatt ray of light, with potential to be mounted in aircraft, ship, or vehicle. 2009: Experimental [67] [68] Northrop Grumman laser gun: Laser gun successfully tested by the U.S. Navy, mounted on the former USS Paul F. Foster and demonstrated destructive capability on a high-speed cruising target ...
The Silent Hunter was first unveiled at the 2017 IDEX show in Abu Dhabi. [7] It was again showcased at the International Exhibition of Weapons Systems and Military Equipment (KADEX) in Kazakhstan in 2018. [8]
Police car equipped with an LRAD-500X sonic weapon (Warsaw, Poland, 2011).. A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy without a solid projectile, including lasers, microwaves, particle beams, and sound beams.
An electrolaser is a type of electroshock weapon that is also a directed-energy weapon.It uses lasers to form an electrically conductive laser-induced plasma channel (LIPC). A fraction of a second later, a powerful electric current is sent down this plasma channel and delivered to the target, thus functioning overall as a large-scale, high energy, long-distance version of the Taser ...
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 ...
Laser sights were popularized outside of military and law enforcement when Laser Products fitted The Terminator's iconic weapon, a .45 Longslide pistol, with a custom He-Ne laser. [10] Another example was the iMatronic LS45. [13] [14] Today, most modern laser sights are solid-state lasers, as opposed to the original gas design. [11]
In the mid-2010s, the next generation of laser pistols appeared, which were specially produced for modern pentathlon and laser run. [10] This resulted in different approaches to construction: On the one hand, there are still models with the structure of a match air pistol: a very thin barrel and a more voluminous container underneath which ...
In 1974, the University of Paris-Sud announced lasing in an aluminum plasma created by a pulse of laser light, but, once again, the results were regarded skeptically by other labs. [7] DARPA had been funding low-level research into high-frequency lasers since the 1960s. By late 1976 they had all but given up on them.