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According to CNN, the Navy used laser pointer have been widely used in all aspects of our lives
Laser has excellent characteristics such as high brightness, high directivity, high monochromaticity and high coherence. In recent decades, it has developed rapidly. At present, laser has been widely used in all aspects of our lives, from the CD record on hand is very small. Barcode scanners in supermarkets are as big as laser welding and laser cutting, and they are versatile.
When the laser is launched, I always like high-tech equipment and want to put it on the battlefield, but turning the laser into a weapon and equipment is not as easy as imagined. First, two problems must be resolved. The first is that the energy of the laser is large enough. The second problem is how to make the laser beam overcome the limitation of atmospheric conditions and accurately irradiate the precise part of the target, that is, the tracking problem.
In 1971, the Navy established the High Energy Laser Program Management Office and began to develop laser weapons. The initial development direction is carbon dioxide gas lasers, but the power of carbon dioxide lasers has not increased rapidly, and it has not been able to meet the demand for a long time. In the mid-1970s, the direction of development began to shift to chemical lasers. In March 1978, the chemical laser successfully destroyed the low-flying “Road” anti-tank missile, and then turned to the development plan of the “Haishi” chemical laser.
In the early 1980s, the proposed “Star Wars” plan injected a lot of funds into the research and development of green laser pointer weapons. The Air Force will focus on oxygen-iodine chemical lasers (belonging to gas lasers), and use Boeing 704-400F as an aircraft for testing, with an output power of megawatts, and the goal is to destroy intercontinental aircraft. The missiles are in the boost phase and are hundreds of kilometers apart. Yankee overcame key problems, such as the study of laser beam deflection during hundreds of kilometers of transmission, and conducted two target tests in 2010, and these tests were partially successful.
According to the initial hypothesis, during the war, 20 Boeing 747 aircraft equipped with laser weapons could take off at the same time and could resist about 100 incoming missiles. However, the military believes that the laser power will increase 20 to 30 times. The target is still too far away. In the general case of reducing military expenditures, the ABL project was dismantled and turned into a technical reserve, and the project name was also changed to ALTB.