{"id":112133,"date":"2020-08-29T10:32:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T17:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/here-comes-the-armys-first-laser-battalion"},"modified":"2020-08-29T10:32:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T17:32:24","slug":"here-comes-the-armys-first-laser-battalion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/here-comes-the-armys-first-laser-battalion","title":{"rendered":"Here comes the Army\u2019s first laser battalion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/here-comes-the-armys-first-laser-battalion2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Defense Department expects to stand up its first battalion of Stryker vehicles outfitted with high-powered laser weapons by some time next year, Army officials say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExpect to have the first battalion fielded in 2021 with four battalions by 2023,\u201d U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command chief Lt. Gen. Dan Karbler <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2020\/08\/us-missile-defenses-are-about-level\/167462\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> the audience at the virtual Space Missile Defense symposium on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called \u201claser battalion,\u201d as Defense One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2020\/08\/us-missile-defenses-are-about-level\/167462\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">described<\/a> it, would eventually deploy the new 50 kw Directed Energy-Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense (DE-MSHORAD) Stryker that the Army is <a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/military-tech\/army-laser-weapon-prototyping\">working to field<\/a> by 2022, a ten-fold power increase over the 5 kw-class system that artillery soldiers have been <a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/army-stryker-laser-weapon-europe\">testing<\/a> in Germany since early 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defense Department expects to stand up its first battalion of Stryker vehicles outfitted with high-powered laser weapons by some time next year, Army officials say. \u201cExpect to have the first battalion fielded in 2021 with four battalions by 2023,\u201d U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command chief Lt. Gen. Dan Karbler told the audience [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112133","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=112133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}