{"id":104657,"date":"2020-04-02T10:44:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T17:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/real-life-laser-rifle-army-goal"},"modified":"2020-04-02T10:44:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T17:44:08","slug":"real-life-laser-rifle-army-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/real-life-laser-rifle-army-goal","title":{"rendered":"Real-Life Laser Rifle: Army Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/real-life-laser-rifle-army-goal2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Army is looking at its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientisttech.com\/article\/dn11723-plasma-shield-may-stun-and-disorientate-enemies.html\" target=\"_blank\">Plasma Acoustic Shield System<\/a> as a checkpoint defender, for now. But the original idea \u2013 and the long-term goal of the project \u2013 is to have it be the first baby step towards a portable, lethal laser weapon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/real-life-laser-rifle-army-goal3.jpg\" alt=\"Pelt2\" title=\"Pelt2\"\/>The effort, by the U.S. Army\u2019s Advanced Energy Armaments Systems Division and Stellar Photonics, has a lot in common with another military laser project: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg17623645.300-star-wars-hits-the-streets.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pulsed Energy Projectile<\/a> being developed by Mission Systems for the Marines. But there are three key differences. The current PEP is a big (450 lb) chemical laser with a limited number of shots, whereas PASS is a small solid-state laser that just needs electricity. The PEP creates plasma by vaporising the outer layer surface it hits (such as your shirt), whereas PASS can create plasma in mid-air by focusing to a point. And PEP fires a single pulse, whereas PASS uses a double pulse which Stellar claim is far more efficient at creating a shockwave.<\/p>\n<p>You can get some idea from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodsbir.net\/selections\/abs022\/dodabs022.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Small Business Initiative Proposal<\/a> the company submitted in \u201804 for a \u201cMan-portable Integrated Laser Assault Rifle\u201d:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army is looking at its Plasma Acoustic Shield System as a checkpoint defender, for now. But the original idea \u2013 and the long-term goal of the project \u2013 is to have it be the first baby step towards a portable, lethal laser weapon. The effort, by the U.S. Army\u2019s Advanced Energy Armaments Systems Division [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1497,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-energy","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}