[Skynet]

This Stryker-mounted high-energy laser can take down large drones and mortars

In a press release published on Monday, Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies business, and Kord, a wholly owned subsidiary of KBR, describe a new weapon that could revolutionize warfare. The novel Stryker-mounted high-energy laser has, in four weeks of continuous live-fire exercises, defeated multiple 2.3 inch (60 mm) mortar rounds and several, small, medium and large drones.

The new weapon system is part of the U.S. Army's Directed Energy Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense, or DE M-SHORAD.

Dealing with increasingly complex threats
"Soldiers in the field face increasingly complex threats, and our combat-proven sensors, software, and lasers are ready to give them a new level of protection," said Annabel Flores, president of Electronic Warfare Systems for Raytheon Intelligence & Space. "The Army gave us our toughest challenge yet — countering rockets, artillery and mortars — and we took an essential step on the path to providing the maneuverable, short range air defense Soldiers need."

The military has a vested interest in developing weapons that can protect forces as they move on the ground, but has consistently failed to do so effectively. This is because thwarting drones, rockets, artillery, or mortar attacks from reaching troops on land and their accompanying vehicles and bases requires a system that can detect and plot the incoming attacks to know where to hit them to avoid them ever reaching their intended targets.

Until now... The DE M-SHORAD effort is particularly equipped to protect soldiers against various aerial threats, "including unmanned aircraft systems, rotary-wing aircraft, rockets, artillery and mortars." Its production saw the joining of two companies: Kord serving as the primary integrator of the system on the Stryker combat vehicle, while Raytheon Intelligence & Space provided the 50kW-class high energy laser weapon module, a specialized radar acquisition system, a beam control system, and targeting sensor.




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As far as I know Laser have just 7 km maximum range because the laser beam scatters to much in air (atmosphere)

[late]

Don't think so..

[Skynet]

Don't think so..

A laserbeam can reach to moon and back by a mirror left behind from Appollo missions.

But destructive efficacy is 7 km (I read somewhere in a millitary Facebook group)

[late]

A laserbeam can reach to moon and back by a mirror left behind from Appollo missions.

But destructive efficacy is 7 km (I read somewhere in a millitary Facebook group)

Eventually robots will carry rayguns.

But I am thinking that doesn't look ready for primetime.

[Drlee]

Putin has not seen anything yet. Remember when the 117A took down all of Iraq's soviet made AA weapons in the first hour of the war?

Like that. Only worse.