{"id":137258,"date":"2022-03-22T20:02:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T03:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/iron-dome-laser-based-option-iron-beam-takes-major-step-forward"},"modified":"2022-03-22T20:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T03:02:18","slug":"iron-dome-laser-based-option-iron-beam-takes-major-step-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/iron-dome-laser-based-option-iron-beam-takes-major-step-forward","title":{"rendered":"Iron Dome laser-based option, Iron Beam, takes major step forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/iron-dome-laser-based-option-iron-beam-takes-major-step-forward2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TEL AVIV: Israel has made a small but significant step towards a laser-based system that is capable of intercepting missiles, with the announcement that the country\u2019s \u201cIron Beam\u201d system officially has a budget.<\/p>\n<p>The program, which has existed in some form of R&amp;D for more than a decade, has faced headwinds as a result of a long-running conflict between proponents and opponents of laser-based defense systems. But the technology appears to have matured to the point the government is now willing to put real money behind it.<\/p>\n<p>Defense sources here say that the initial effort will be to develop an electric 100\u2013150 kW solid-state laser that will be capable of intercepting rockets and missiles. The idea is to use two laser guns to create the needed power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEL AVIV: Israel has made a small but significant step towards a laser-based system that is capable of intercepting missiles, with the announcement that the country\u2019s \u201cIron Beam\u201d system officially has a budget. The program, which has existed in some form of R&amp;D for more than a decade, has faced headwinds as a result of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137258","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}