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Breakthrough Laser Could Revolutionize Navy's Weaponry
Published January 20, 2011
The battleships of the future will be equipped with mega-watt free electron lasers.
The Navy has passed a major milestone in its quest to build an incredibly powerful new anti-aircraft gun.
Scientists with the Navy's Office of Naval Research have demonstrated a prototype system capable of producing from thin air the electrons needed to generate ultrapowerful, "megawatt-class" laser beams for the agency's next-generation system.
"The injector performed as we predicted all along," said Dinh Nguyen, senior project leader for the Free Electron Laser (FEL) program at the Los Alamos National Lab, N.M. "But until now, we didn't have the evidence to support our models. We were so happy to see our design, fabrication and testing efforts finally come to fruition."
He said the group is hoping to set a world record with the futuristic new weapon -- which could be the Holy Grail of military lasers.
FEL technology generates powerful laser beams by passing a stream of electrons -- those tiny, charged particles of matter -- through magnetic fields. Using electrons means avoiding the hassle of chemical fuels that are required for ordinary gas lasers, and bypassing the heating issue of electronic lasers.
FEL lasers can also be calibrated more specifically for anti-aircraft purposes, the Navy said, to adjust for precipitation, cloud cover, or humidity.
Quentin Saulter, FEL program manager for the Navy's research arm, said the implications of the FEL's progress are monumental. "This is a major leap forward for the program and for FEL technology throughout the Navy," Saulter said. "The fact that the team is nine months ahead of schedule provides us plenty of time to reach our goals by the end of 2011."
The research team hopes to have a full-power prototype by 2018, which would have the ability to instantly blast targets in the sky.
Navy ships have become vulnerable in modern times to supersonic missiles because of their slower defense systems, the agency worries. "The FEL is expected to provide future U.S. Naval forces with a near-instantaneous laser ship defense in any maritime environment throughout the world,” Saulter said.
Moreover, because future ships may very well use a form of electronic propulsion, there would be a readily available supply of electrons to power the raygun.
Originally invented by John Madey in 1976 at Stanford University, the project was picked up and pursued by the ONR in the 1980s -- and may finally become a reality.
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this is our dick measuing move to shit on china's J20 stealth announced a day ago?
cool weapon nonetheless. when every country has these identical invisible force fields, we may actually have world peace.
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this is our dick measuing move to shit on china's J20 stealth announced a day ago?
cool weapon nonetheless. when every country has these identical invisible force fields, we may actually have world peace.
China, 1 J20 stealth fighter, The US has had them fro what, about 20 yrs?
China, for all it manufacturing clout, it has yet to produce it's own aircraft carrier...
Something is wrong with this picture...Much like the tigers that are supposed to be protected---yet their penises are fed to people in restaurants, China's "supposedly" superiority diminishes once you look closer at them, and see them for what they are.
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this is our dick measuing move to shit on china's J20 stealth announced a day ago?
cool weapon nonetheless. when every country has these identical invisible force fields, we may actually have world peace.
Having a jet that looks like a stealth and it actually being stealth are 2 completely different things
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this is our dick measuing move to shit on china's J20 stealth announced a day ago?
cool weapon nonetheless. when every country has these identical invisible force fields, we may actually have world peace.
You've clearly done no reading on that plane (SURPRISE, I know) but it barely registers as a "stealth" fighter and nowhere near the capabilities of ours.
Do you ever actually do any research on the shit you comment about or do you just enjoy talking out of your ass at every step?
Where's that douche bag theonlyone to tell us how superior Russia's army is, despite the fact that anyone with half a brain knows they're not even comparable.
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You've clearly done no reading on that plane (SURPRISE, I know) but barely registers as a "stealth" fighter and nowhere near the capabilities of ours.
Do you ever actually do any research on the shit you comment about or do you just enjoy talking out of your ass at every step?
Where's that douche bag theonlyone to tell us how superior Russia's army is, despite the fact that anyone with half a brain knows they're not even comparable.
;D ;D
I actually was on my Jet Ski in the LI Sound this summer once and a B2 Stealth Bomber was soaring above, looked like they were just making cuircles and messing around.
I'll never forget what a site that was. Those things areMASSIVE and seem to just glide across the sky. Other boaters were just mesmorized as wa I at this thing
That pofs from China looked like a bunch n crappola compared to our steath fighter and bomber. .
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;D ;D
I actually was on my Jet Ski in the LI Sound this summer once and a B2 Stealth Bomber was soaring above, looked like they were just making cuircles and messing around.
I'll never forget what a site that was. Those things areMASSIVE and seem to just glide across the sky. Other boaters were just mesmorized as wa I at this thing
That pofs from China looked like a bunch n crappola compared to our steath fighter and bomber. .
But according to 240, China has INVISIBLE airplanes now! Just think if the USA could produce things like that! Chinese "ingenuity" strikes again. ::)
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B-2's First flight: 1989
China's first "stealth" flight: 2011
LOL.
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BF - I'm not kidding - I literally was sitting my jet ski in Stamford Harbor by the Lighthouse awestruck by how the B2 seemd to literally be gliding across the sky SILENTLY. The thing was fucking silent!
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I've never seen one flying. Would love to.
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The engines in the J20 are probably garbage, just like all Chinese engines/copied engines. They probably just reverse engineered an already bad and unreliable/poor performing Russian engine and stuck it in the "Stealth". My guy tells me the photo's were leaked ahead of Hu coming to the U.S. to gauge our response and as a shot across the bow. The J20 is probably another 10 or so years from official production and by then the West will be on Generation 5.5 or 6 fighter aircraft.
Is it troubling that they are even at this stage? Yes. Should we take it seriously? Of course. But lets not go bowing down to them like Obama likes to do just yet. Pumping out VCRs, CD players and McDonalds toys is one thing....designing, engineering and manufacturing a 5 Gen. Stealth Aircraft that is reliable, efficient and effective is something completely different.
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I've never seen one flying. Would love to.
BF - what struck me was how big this thing was and how silent it was. I remember just sitting there staring at it like WWWTTTFFF? ? ? I'm nt kidding - do yu know where the Jetty is near the Stamford Lighthouse? I was sitting on the jet ki over there not too far from the beach and watching this thing making circles and was just like OMG.
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Should rename this the "Reagan"
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Makes me almost shed a tear. ;)
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America loves sensations! We can destroy America in 2 mins, I would eagerly die even if the US would strike back!
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America loves sensations! We can destroy America in 2 mins, I would eagerly die even if the US would strike back!
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America loves sensations! We can destroy America in 2 mins, I would eagerly die even if the US would strike back!
I'm pretty sure everything in russia would be toast as soon as your 'missiles' launched. Now if they use russian satellites to guide them USA is gold. They'll end up in the ocean because russian satellites are about as good as russian cars.
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I'm pretty sure everything in russia would be toast as soon as your 'missiles' launched. Now if they use russian satellites to guide them USA is gold. They'll end up in the ocean because russian satellites are about as good as russian cars.
Racist post reported. Russian cars are wheelbarrows pulled by malnourished donkeys and Siberian slave laborers. Bringing attention to this fact is hurtful and exposes your imperial agenda.
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I'm pretty sure everything in russia would be toast as soon as your 'missiles' launched. Now if they use russian satellites to guide them USA is gold. They'll end up in the ocean because russian satellites are about as good as russian cars.
Are we even sure that the Russian ICBM's can get off the launching pad without blowing up?
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I'm pretty sure everything in russia would be toast as soon as your 'missiles' launched. Now if they use russian satellites to guide them USA is gold. They'll end up in the ocean because russian satellites are about as good as russian cars.
It's just common words - toast, as soon as, USA is gold!
mark my words Uzbekistan men of the unibrow will outlive the US
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What's the point? It just flies straight line!
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BF - I'm not kidding - I literally was sitting my jet ski in Stamford Harbor by the Lighthouse awestruck by how the B2 seemd to literally be gliding across the sky SILENTLY. The thing was fucking silent!
I had the same awestruck feeling when a Prius drove by me fucking SILENTLY!
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:)
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(http://fallout-3d.narod.ru/airplane-02.jpg)
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(http://fallout-3d.narod.ru/airplane-02.jpg)
Get out of here you Lada driving savage.
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B2 Bomber will strike fear even in aliens and Mobacca.
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B2 Bomber will strike fear even in aliens and Mobacca.
I know you don't speak Russians but they say B2 bomber and F22 are irrelevant and would strike no fear!
http://www.rusarmy.com/forum/topic6305.html
97 pages of discussion!
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I know you don't speak Russians but they say B2 bomber and F22 are irrelevant and would strike no fear!
http://www.rusarmy.com/forum/topic6305.html
97 pages of discussion!
Probably the same kind of insightful discussion 386 promotes on this board. :)
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Probably the same kind of insightful discussion 386 promotes on this board. :)
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I was complimenting you. I am now awestruck by the B2. I mean it was FUCKING SILENTLY GLIDING OVER LI SOUND WHILE YOU WERE ON YOUR JETSKI.
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I was complimenting you. I am now awestruck by the B2. I mean it was FUCKING SILENTLY GLIDING OVER LI SOUND WHILE YOU WERE ON YOUR JETSKI.
Fucking silently gliding?
(http://tv.ukr.net/i/uploads/20090519/ROm2F.jpg)
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BF - I'm not kidding - I literally was sitting my jet ski in Stamford Harbor by the Lighthouse awestruck by how the B2 seemd to literally be gliding across the sky SILENTLY. The thing was fucking silent!
Special hybrid jet engines undoubtedly. Will strike fear into your commie heart.
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Special hybrid jet engines undoubtedly. Will strike fear into your commie heart.
Hollywood!
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Hollywood!
I'm sure you will still say that when 386 rides his jetski across the Bering Strait and annexes Siberia for us.
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The New Russian Stealth Bomber
Russian military planes flew undetected through the U.S. zone of the Arctic Ocean to Canada during recent military exercises, a senior Air Force commander said Saturday. The commander of the country's long-range strategic bombers, Lieutenant General Igor Khvorov, said the U.S. Air Force is now investigating why its military was unable to detect the Russian bombers.
"They were unable to detect the planes either with radars or visually," he said.
Khorov said that during the military exercises in April, Tu-160 Blackjack bombers and Tu-95 Bears had successfully carried out four missile launches. Bombing exercises were held using Tu-22 Blinders.
By the end of the year, two more Tu-160s will be commissioned for the long-range strategic bomber fleet, Khorov said.
Both new planes will incorporate numerous upgrades from the initial Soviet models, the commander said. The bombers will be able to launch both cruise missiles and aviation bombs, and communicate via satellite. RIA NOVOSTI
Russian Academy of Sciences recently revealed information about a novel "stealth" technology, that incorporates plasma fields. Russian ITAR/TASS news agency recently interviewed the director of the Keldysh Research Center (FKA Scientific Research Institute for Thermal Processes), Academician Anatoliy Koroteyev, who briefly summarized capabilities of plasma stealth system developed by his research center and the current status of the project.
Interactions between various types of electromagnetic radiation and plasma fields were studied for many years in Russia, the United States and around the world.
The system developed by the Russians is based on electromagnetic wave-plasma interactions, but in a very different way. Russian stealth plasma device creates a plasma field around an aircraft. This field partially consumes electromagnetic energy of a hostile radar or causes it to bend around the aircraft, reducing the aircraft RCS by up to 100 times.
It is not known whether the plasma stealth system developed by the Russians employs a plasma laser or some other method for creating a plasma field. source
Specification Tu-160 'Blackjack'
Powerplant: four 245.18 kN (55,140 lb st) Trud/Samara NK-32 afterburning turbofans
Dimensions: length 54.1m (177 ft 6 in); height 13.1m (42 ft 11 in); wing span 65° sweep 35.6m (116 ft 9½ in); wing span 35° sweep 50.7m (166 ft 4 in); wing span 20° sweep 55.7m (182 ft 9 in)
Weights: empty 117000 kg (257,937 lb); Max Take-Off Weight 275000 kg (606,261 lb)
Performance: max level speed Mach 2.05 or 2200 km/h (1367 mph); max level speed at sea level 1030 km/h (640 mph); ceiling 15600m (51,181 ft)
Armament: up to 12 KH-55 nuclear or KH-555 conventional long-range cruise missiles or 24 Kh-15 short-range nuclear attack missiles carried in two internal weapon bays; in theory up to 40000 kg (88,183 lb) of freefall nuclear or conventional bombs
Jane made it clear a few years ago! (Plasma Stealth Technology Page"
So did FAS! (specifications)
This is SOMETHING! (Russians offer technology for EXPORT)
"A Russian scientific research organisation is to offer for export a 'bolt-on' stealth device that it claims renders non-stealthy aircraft practically invisible to radar. The system, which envelops the aircraft in a cloak of ionised gas known as a plasma, is said to be fully developed, with work on a "third-generation visibility-reduction system" under way.
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You said again???
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This would not have happened on Palin's watch.
Putin where's his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America. Where do they go? It's Alaska.
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Any more Russian fairy tales to share? Baba Yaga invaded our airspace?
The New Russian Stealth Bomber
Russian military planes flew undetected through the U.S. zone of the Arctic Ocean to Canada during recent military exercises, a senior Air Force commander said Saturday. The commander of the country's long-range strategic bombers, Lieutenant General Igor Khvorov, said the U.S. Air Force is now investigating why its military was unable to detect the Russian bombers.
"They were unable to detect the planes either with radars or visually," he said.
Khorov said that during the military exercises in April, Tu-160 Blackjack bombers and Tu-95 Bears had successfully carried out four missile launches. Bombing exercises were held using Tu-22 Blinders.
By the end of the year, two more Tu-160s will be commissioned for the long-range strategic bomber fleet, Khorov said.
Both new planes will incorporate numerous upgrades from the initial Soviet models, the commander said. The bombers will be able to launch both cruise missiles and aviation bombs, and communicate via satellite. RIA NOVOSTI
Russian Academy of Sciences recently revealed information about a novel "stealth" technology, that incorporates plasma fields. Russian ITAR/TASS news agency recently interviewed the director of the Keldysh Research Center (FKA Scientific Research Institute for Thermal Processes), Academician Anatoliy Koroteyev, who briefly summarized capabilities of plasma stealth system developed by his research center and the current status of the project.
Interactions between various types of electromagnetic radiation and plasma fields were studied for many years in Russia, the United States and around the world.
The system developed by the Russians is based on electromagnetic wave-plasma interactions, but in a very different way. Russian stealth plasma device creates a plasma field around an aircraft. This field partially consumes electromagnetic energy of a hostile radar or causes it to bend around the aircraft, reducing the aircraft RCS by up to 100 times.
It is not known whether the plasma stealth system developed by the Russians employs a plasma laser or some other method for creating a plasma field. source
Specification Tu-160 'Blackjack'
Powerplant: four 245.18 kN (55,140 lb st) Trud/Samara NK-32 afterburning turbofans
Dimensions: length 54.1m (177 ft 6 in); height 13.1m (42 ft 11 in); wing span 65° sweep 35.6m (116 ft 9½ in); wing span 35° sweep 50.7m (166 ft 4 in); wing span 20° sweep 55.7m (182 ft 9 in)
Weights: empty 117000 kg (257,937 lb); Max Take-Off Weight 275000 kg (606,261 lb)
Performance: max level speed Mach 2.05 or 2200 km/h (1367 mph); max level speed at sea level 1030 km/h (640 mph); ceiling 15600m (51,181 ft)
Armament: up to 12 KH-55 nuclear or KH-555 conventional long-range cruise missiles or 24 Kh-15 short-range nuclear attack missiles carried in two internal weapon bays; in theory up to 40000 kg (88,183 lb) of freefall nuclear or conventional bombs
Jane made it clear a few years ago! (Plasma Stealth Technology Page"
So did FAS! (specifications)
This is SOMETHING! (Russians offer technology for EXPORT)
"A Russian scientific research organisation is to offer for export a 'bolt-on' stealth device that it claims renders non-stealthy aircraft practically invisible to radar. The system, which envelops the aircraft in a cloak of ionised gas known as a plasma, is said to be fully developed, with work on a "third-generation visibility-reduction system" under way.
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Any more Russian fairy tales to share? Baba Yaga invaded our airspace?
A lot! I am here on this forum to open your eyes!
Props for knowing the baba yaga!!!
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I've never seen one flying. Would love to.
I've seen them twice, once in the wild flying over Arkansas as I was driving, and another at an air show. They are freaky cool but already out dated technology wise.
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But according to 240, China has INVISIBLE airplanes now!
Link to where I said that?
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I've seen them twice, once in the wild flying over Arkansas as I was driving, and another at an air show. They are freaky cool but already out dated technology wise.
Out dated yet decades ahead of anything China can produce. :-X
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Out dated yet decades ahead of anything China can produce. :-X
B2 Bomber makes the chinese crap look like a kite or rc plane at best.
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Any more Russian fairy tales to share? Baba Yaga invaded our airspace?
Oh good christ...."hey our supersecret jet just fly over your territory but you can't see it so.......
They had to tow your friggen Navy into port when they visited Hugo Chavez last year. Forget it.
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Oh good christ...."hey our supersecret jet just fly over your territory but you can't see it so.......
They had to tow your friggen Navy into port when they visited Hugo Chavez last year. Forget it.
hahahaha russia is a big zero!
Last time they tried to fly into Canadian airspace, the Canadians chased them off!
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hahahaha russia is a big zero!
Russians don't give a damn about your weak analysis. Russian mafia is the 1 in every country over there. The most recent survey about the mafia shows the Red Mafia as you call it is the number 1 in America.
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fucking priceless lol...
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The most recent survey about the mafia shows the Red Mafia as you call it is the number 1 in America.
LOL, that's your claim to fame?
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This would not have happened on Palin's watch.
Putin where's his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America. Where do they go? It's Alaska.
Oh man, that's so painful to watch. I'm so embarrassed for them. :-[
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OMG
Still cant imagine someone considering this dumb bitch for office
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I don't have time to watch it, that is only 1 part out of 15
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OMG
Still cant imagine someone considering this dumb bitch for office
America from the other side ::)
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Russians don't give a damn about your weak analysis. Russian mafia is the 1 in every country over there. The most recent survey about the mafia shows the Red Mafia as you call it is the number 1 in America.
Yet another thing you can hang your hat on.....wow u guys are awsome.
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Yet another thing you can hang your hat on.....wow u guys are awsome.
yea, that's his bragging rights lol... if it's even true which I don't give a shit about if it is. It basically means they are over here ruling some crap areas and slums lol.... and he's happy they have that going for them lol... I guess even theonlyone can share in the American dream lol...