Navy Shipboard Lasers for Surface, Air, and Missile Defense: Background and Issues for Congress

Abstract

Department of Defense (DOD) development work on high-energy military lasers, which has been underway for decades, has reached the point where lasers capable of countering certain surface and air targets at ranges of about a mile could be made ready for installation on Navy surface ships over the next few years. More powerful shipboard lasers, which could become ready for installation in subsequent years, could provide Navy surface ships with an ability to counter a wider range of surface and air targets at ranges of up to about 10 miles.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 12, 2015
Accession Number
AD1149203

Entities

People

  • Ronald O'Rourke

Organizations

  • Library of Congress

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Boats
  • Congress
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Laser Beams
  • Lasers
  • Linear Accelerators
  • Machine Guns
  • National Security
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Warfare
  • Navy
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warfare
  • Weapons Effects

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fire Suppression Systems Design.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy