{"id":106740,"date":"2020-05-07T19:06:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T02:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/chinas-airborne-laser-weapon-would-change-dogfighting-forever"},"modified":"2020-05-07T19:06:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T02:06:52","slug":"chinas-airborne-laser-weapon-would-change-dogfighting-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/chinas-airborne-laser-weapon-would-change-dogfighting-forever","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Airborne Laser Weapon Would Change Dogfighting Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-airborne-laser-weapon-would-change-dogfighting-forever.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2020 o.o<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>China\u2019s military is soliciting would-be suppliers for a new airborne laser weapon. Notices on a government website invited defense contractors to provide information on an airborne laser attack pod. Depending on the level of power, the pod could be used to defend a friendly aircraft from incoming missile threats or destroy enemy aircraft and ground targets. Laser weapons are the next revolution in aerial warfare and could make dogfighting obsolete.<\/p>\n<p>According to the South China Morning Post, weain.mil.cn, the official weapons and equipment procurement website of the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) published two solicitations to contractors, one titled, \u201cprocurement plan for airborne laser attack pod\u201d and the other \u201cprice inquiry on procurement plan for controlling software module of laser attack platform.\u201d The solicitations, marked confidential, invited China\u2019s defense firms to bid to develop the items. The Pentagon uses a similar system to procure weapons, equipment, and other technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2020 o.o China\u2019s military is soliciting would-be suppliers for a new airborne laser weapon. Notices on a government website invited defense contractors to provide information on an airborne laser attack pod. Depending on the level of power, the pod could be used to defend a friendly aircraft from incoming missile threats or destroy enemy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1490,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-government","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106740","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=106740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}