Lockheed Martin To Deploy One Of The Most Powerful Laser Weapons Known To Man

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Lockheed Martin To Deploy One Of The Most Powerful Laser Weapons Known To Man
20 March 2017, 10:25 am EDT By Livia Rusu Tech Times   
 

The United States Army is preparing to field a small-sized but very powerful laser weapon system. Lockheed Martin announced having completed the system's design, as well as its development and demonstration of the laser.

The press release announcing this leap forward was published, March, 16. The laser weapon system is one of the most powerful pieces of weaponry of its kind and it could be delivered to the Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command in Huntsville, during one of the following months.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/202418/20170320/lockheed-martin-to-deploy-one-of-the-most-powerful-laser-weapons-known-to-man.htm

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...The weapon is a beam combined fiber laser, which implies that it puts together individual lasers that are generated by fiber optics to create one very powerful laser beam....

...The Lockheed Martin team built a laser beam that was close to being "diffraction-limited". This means that the beam was very close to reaching the physical limits of focusing its energy capacity toward one tiny, single spot. At the same time, the system also performed well in testing, as it managed to translate more than 43 percent of the electricity that powered it, into the laser beam it emitted, directly and without functioning issues....

More at:
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2017/03/17/lockheed-martin-bothell-makes-laser-weapon-army.html

http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/what-we-do/aerospace-defense/directed-energy/laser-weapon-systems.html