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Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 |
Northrop Grumman Solid-State Laser Intended for Several Kinds of Military Missions Scientists at the Northrop Grumman Space Technology segment are developing a high-energy, solid-state laser called Vesta that company officials claim is powerful enough to perform many basic military missions.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 John McHale |
Chasing the goal of an efficient battlefield laser U.S. DoD researchers aim to develop small lasers for use in tactical air missions. The engineering challenge has been taken up by contractors including Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 John McHale |
Laser Weapons: Moving From Promise to Performance The military's laser weapons programs are making steady progress in their transition from the laboratory to the battlefield, with deployment of initial systems expected within the next three to five years.  |
Technology Research News June 1, 2005 |
Lasers Built Into Fiber-Optics Researchers have crossed a gas-filled fiber optic laser with ordinary fiber optics to make a Raman laser and a frequency stabilizer -- devices that provide precise control of laser beams.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2004 |
Fiber lasers emerge as strong competitor for future laser weapons They may be applied to jet fighters, land vehicles, and perhaps even man-portable systems. And they even have the potential to edge-out other solid-state laser approaches such as slab lasers and free-electron lasers.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 John McHale |
Future weapons: Solid-state lasers Industry and military scientists are moving forward in the quest to develop solid-state lasers for use as weapons by warfighters of the future.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005 |
Laser weapons slowly shifting from science fiction to reality During the exercise, called Advanced Concepts Event or ACE, pilots used the newly developed laser-armed F-16 simulator to prepare for aerial combat once laser weapons become available.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2009 |
C-130-Based High-Energy Laser Weapon Defeats Ground Target in Flight Test Laser weapons experts from Boeing and the U.S. Air Force defeated a ground target from the air with the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) aircraft.  |
Popular Mechanics July 22, 2008 Erik Sofge |
Laser Truck Inches Closer to Iraq Battlefield: Exclusive First Look The Army is one step closer to getting what can only be described as a laser truck - one capable of disabling incoming rounds.  |
National Defense July 2009 Robert H. Williams |
Weapons Grade Laser Validated in Military Test Scientists and engineers have scored a first in achieving more than 105 kilowatts of electric light ray intensity in the final demonstration milestone of the military's Joint High Power Solid State Laser Program  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2004 |
Test Moves Missile-Defense Laser Program Closer to Deployment The future U.S. Airborne Laser system took another step forward last month when modules of the system's megawatt-class chemical oxygen-iodine laser were test fired for the first time while linked together as one unit.  |
National Defense August 2014 Dan Parsons |
Lasers Could Become Cost Effective Missile Defense Weapons The U.S. military invests more money than any other country, but its expensive high-tech defenses are increasingly countered by the proliferation of relatively cheap but effective weapons.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 John McHale |
Laser Weapons, on Target The U.S. military and its partners from industry are meeting major milestones in various programs as they move closer to making laser weaponry a standard part of the U.S. arsenal.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Weapons at the Speed of Light Laser weaponry will be a tool in the U.S. military's arsenal much sooner than many think, with the first applications for missile defense from the ground and the air.  |
National Defense August 2010 Grace V. Jean |
Navy Aiming for Laser Weapons at Sea The Navy expects to incorporate lasers onto most ship classes in its surface fleet, including amphibious ships, cruisers and destroyers.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 John McHale |
Laser Weapons Are Getting Closer to Reality U.S. Department of Defense experts are close to fielding the Airborne Laser (ABL) for missile defense and several other high-energy laser weapons programs received new funding this year.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007 John Keller |
Fiber Laser Sales to Grow 26 Percent Annually Through 2011 Many key questions remain, such as how fast and how much market share can kilowatt fiber lasers gain from carbon dioxide lasers in sheet metal cutting? And, how much vertical integration is necessary to succeed in the fiber laser market?  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 John McHale |
U.S. Army Selects Northrop Grumman 100-Kilowatt, Solid-State Laser for Field Tests A solid-state laser system from Northrop Grumman Corp. which produces a powerful beam from a continuous-wave, electric laser is joining other speed-of-light weapons for field tests at the Army's High Energy Laser System Test Facility (HELSTF)  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 John Keller |
Northrop Grumman shoots 27-kw beam of light for 350 seconds from solid-state laser Potential uses include protective and strike capabilities for ships, manned and unmanned aircraft, and ground vehicles.  |
National Defense August 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Laser Weapons: Laboratory Toys or Imminent Battlefield Systems? Clearing the hurdles will be a challenge, given the tough economic climate and the uncertainty of future warfare needs in the Defense Department.  |
National Defense July 2010 |
Navy Looking at Lasers to Defend Ships From Enemy Aircraft The Navy recently tested commercial welding lasers and has proven that the beams are capable of knocking small planes out of the sky.  |
The Motley Fool December 14, 2010 Eric Jhonsa |
Our Top 5 Tech Stocks For 2011: IPG Photonics The company's fiber lasers are gobbling up market share in a hurry.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005 |
Optoelectronics Briefs Breakthrough in solid-state laser technology... Fiber-optic field-simulation test instrument... TTL modulation added to photon devices... New high-power optical fiber... Light-sensitive camera... High-power multimode diode bar... Laser Diode earns ISO 9001:2000 certification...  |
The Motley Fool October 27, 2009 Rich Smith |
Boeing Builds a Laser Tank The Force is strong with this one.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 John Keller |
Laser pointer or terrorist threat? Several recent incidents in which aircraft pilots claim to have been temporarily blinded by laser beams are igniting debate over whether legally obtained laser pointers in the wrong hands could be considered terrorist weapons.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 |
Raytheon researchers eye boosting laser power to weapons-grade levels High-power laser systems made from low-power modules would leapfrog bottlenecks to create ever-higher-power monolithic laser systems.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2009 Courtney E. Howard |
Lockheed Martin Readies Paveway II Dual-Mode Laser-Guided Bomb for U.S. Navy Use The Lockheed Martin Paveway II DMLGB, a next-generation laser-guided bomb kit, combines an upgraded, all-weather inertial navigation system/global positioning system (INS/GPS), semi-active laser (SAL) seeker, and anti-jam technology.  |
National Defense March 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Military May Be Souring On Laser Weapons The Pentagon's enthusiasm for laser weapons is not what it used to be.  |
Technology Research News August 11, 2004 |
Twisted fiber filters light Researchers have devised a way to control light inside optical fiber communications lines. The method could enable faster data transmission rates in fiber-optic lines and new twists on devices like lasers and sensors.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 |
Electro-Optics Briefs VueMetrix delivers laser diode controller for high-power fiber lasers... DILAS offers conduction-cooled fiber-coupled laser modules for military applications... Axsys to provide infrared imaging lenses for Army CROWS program...  |
BusinessWeek January 22, 2007 Gene G. Marcial |
Lockheed: Rocketing Up Worries that democrats in Congress may roll back defense outlays doesn't faze fans of Lockheed Martin.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 |
In brief Boeing awarded Laser JDAM contract... Raytheon ships ARTEMIS sensor for on-demand surveillance from space... Air Force awards Lockheed Martin weather systems contract...  |
Technology Research News September 24, 2003 |
Teamed lasers make smaller spots Researchers from Boston University have tapped the properties of polarization in order to focus a laser beam more tightly in space. The method could be used to scan objects in finer detail and to make finer features in processes like rapid prototyping and photolithography.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 |
Aculight Introduces Eye-Safe Fiber Laser for Military Ladar Applications Aculight has introduced an eye-safe, high-power, pulsed fiber laser called the Perseus-TS for integration into military laser direction and ranging systems.  |
Popular Mechanics October 1, 2009 Tyghe Trimble |
Advanced Tactical Laser Blasts a Stationary Target (With Video!) For years, the Pentagon's research budget has funded not one, but two planes armed with laser turrets.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2006 |
BAE Systems Enters Market for Ground-Based Laser Warning Sensors The BAE Systems Sensor Integration segment in Austin, Texas, is jumping into the market for ground-based laser warning sensors to provide ground crews and vehicles with improved situational awareness and protection against laser-designated and laser-guided weapons.  |
National Defense June 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army to Curtail Procurement of Precision-Guided Weapons The Army needs to reevaluate its precision-guided munitions programs, and identify which of its current weapons should continue to receive funding. Contractors worried about declining sales should try to find ways to consolidate production lines across all military services.  |
Popular Mechanics April 7, 2009 |
7 Military Tech Winners and Losers Under Gates's Proposed Defense Budget Defense Secretary Robert Gates proposed a budget that would be the first Defense Department overhaul by the Obama administration. The plan has winners and losers as Gates tries to streamline defense procurement.  |
IndustryWeek August 17, 2011 |
Laser Cutting Gains Ground As firms update cutting technology, fiber and CO 2 lasers get a big boost.  |
Technology Research News March 9, 2005 |
Silicon Chip Laser Goes Continuous Useful lasers made from silicon would make it possible to move data between and within computer chips using light rather than electricity. This would make for faster chips that could be more tightly integrated with optical communications equipment.  |
National Defense November 2015 Allyson Versprille |
Lockheed Invests in Ground Combat Vehicles The company is currently competing for the Marine Corps' amphibious combat vehicle 1.1 program.  |
Popular Mechanics December 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
How an F-35 Targets, Aims and Fires Without Being Seen Aiming weapons from a stealth aircraft like the F-35 is not easy.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 |
Northrop Grumman Test Fires Powerful, Continuously Pulsed Illuminator Laser A new diode-pumped solid-state, next-generation illuminator laser developed delivered multikilowatt output power while operating at 5,000 pulses per second during recent tests, company officials reported.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 Adrian Carter |
New technology advances applications for high-power fiber lasers Since introduced by Nufern as a standard product in late 2002, LMA fibers have enabled a power-scaling revolution, and have produced near-diffraction-limited beam quality at powers approaching 1 kW and slope efficiencies of around 75 percent.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009 |
Northrop Grumman-built laser demonstrates long-duration, lethal lasing onboard Airborne Laser aircraft Test settings can be used for future testing, including the planned shootdown of a ballistic missile with laser weapons scheduled to occur later in the year, according to company officials.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2009 |
Laser Weapons Are Here: ATL Test Shows Ability to Attack Moving Targets Effectively From the Air The U.S. Air Force's experimental Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) hit and damaged a moving vehicle in late September in a test that demonstrated for the first time the laser weapon's ability to attack moving targets effectively.  |
Popular Mechanics February 3, 2009 Erik Sofge |
Killer Lasers Work, but Are They the Best Defense Against UAVs? Last week, Boeing announced that its Laser Avenger system had shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a one-kilowatt laser. Are energy weapons becoming preferable to an old-fashioned bullet or bomb?  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005 John Keller |
Editor's Notebook: Darpa Details Requirements for High-Energy Diode-Laser Initiative The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is moving ahead with a program to develop a 100-kilowatt weapons-grade diode laser capable of destroying military targets.  |
National Defense March 2011 Grace V. Jean |
Changes Possible for F-35's Communication Network F-35 program managers at prime contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. are eyeing an emerging technology that would enable them to make the full transition from copper wires to fiber-optic cables.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006 |
Air Force seeks to improve battlefield logistics with recycled laser fuel This achievement removes the need to dispose of used fuel, and will substantially improve warfighting logistics, says the Air Force project officer on the program.  |