If maritime laser weapons are used as a near-defense system, then maritime laser weapons have great promise. Everyone knows that China’s laser pointer weapon is one of the best in the world today. The United States has spent fifteen years tackling key problems. Just to break through China’s technological blockade is the best affirmation of Chinese laser weapons. Not only is China equipped with laser weapons, but it is also preparing to move laser weapons to aircraft carriers to build maritime laser weapon platforms.
According to the introduction of lasers in the early years of the Bureau, lasers are obviously not cost-effective as maritime offensive weapons. Salt mist at sea will have a severe reduction effect on the green laser pointer, so this nature will cause the laser weapon range at sea to be significantly shorter. . But if maritime laser weapons are used as a near-defense system, then maritime laser weapons have great promise.
The laser possesses the transient nature that other intercepting weapons do not have. It does not need to use a fire control computer to perform complex advance calculations like other weapons. As long as the detection system captures the target, it can directly fire and destroy the enemy target as an energy weapon. The cost of each shot is also much lower than the need for industrial manufacturing of live-fire weapons, so the laser has a much higher cost-effective ratio than other weapons. Secondly, because the burden of the fire control computer is greatly simplified, the fire control computer can make better threat judgments and formulate better interception plans, thereby greatly enhancing the ship’s anti-saturation strike capability. Ideally, it cannot be achieved by the current missile firepower. Destroy a warship equipped with a laser defense system.
The Laser Engraver weapon system that China moved to Liaoning now to test is obviously placed near the near-defense system in the past. It is basically clear that China is testing the laser near-defense system. If the next test can be successfully performed, it may be in the near future. We can see the emergence of laser warships in the Chinese Navy that rewrite the rules of war.