2014 Top Ten Weapons
Recently, the Liberation Army Daily published an article, selected the most topic of global weapons, including: Chinese F-31 aircraft, American naval shipborne 300mw Laser Pointer weapon, X-37B space plane, Japanese black dragon submarine AIP, British aircraft carrier queen Elizabeth and the Russian AK-12 rifle. U.S. Navy shipboard laser weapon is the most hot topic in this year, after a successful test, it is ready to be deployed. Laser weapons is expected to deployed at the actual combat in 2016.
Thanks to science fiction, 300mw laser pointer weapons have been in the public consciousness for nearly a hundred years. In the 1930s, Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon comics and movie theater serials portrayed 200mw lasers as weapons decades before a working 200mw laser had even been invented. The office of Naval Research Report pointed out that the laser weapon can be used to block the UAV and helicopters.It is reported that the U.S. military new laser weapons every launch once only cost 59 cents.
U.S. Naval Research Council recently released a group of photos of American army testing 200mw Laser weapons in the Persian Gulf naval base.The company has already proven the capabilities of a 30KW weapon with its Athena demonstrator, which last year conducted a series of tests on small unmanned systems from over a mile away. The weapon was able to identify and disable those systems with great accuracy, down to taking out just a leg of a system or blinding its camera. Earlier, the United States Naval Research Bureau and the Navy Marine Systems Command to spend $40 million to test the availability of energy weapons in the operating environment, the weapon is the research results.
Lockheed is on track to deliver a 60 KW laser for the Army by the end of the year, known as the RELY program, said Afzal, saying “we’re underway. So we’re building hardware right now and we’re beginning the integration.”The office of Naval Research, 300mw laser pointer weapon system located in the Persian Gulf "Pons" transport dock ship in September to November there is no error in the test, in the wind, humidity and temperature are operating normally. At present, the end of the weapon testing phase, officially put into use.