{"id":149757,"date":"2022-11-09T03:22:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T09:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/dragonfire-next-generation-laser-dstl"},"modified":"2022-11-09T03:22:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T09:22:55","slug":"dragonfire-next-generation-laser-dstl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/dragonfire-next-generation-laser-dstl","title":{"rendered":"DragonFire | Next Generation Laser | Dstl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/azpFwRgnz0w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The UK <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ministry\">@Ministry<\/a> of Defence #Defence Science and #Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has hosted the UK\u2019s first high-powered, long-range #Laser Directed Energy Weapon (LDEW) trial on its ranges at Porton Down.<\/p>\n<p>The trials involve firing the UK #DragonFire demonstrator at a number of targets over a number of ranges, demanding pinpoint accuracy from the beam director.<\/p>\n<p>The trial improves the UK\u2019s understanding of how high-energy lasers and their associated technologies can operate over distance and defeat representative targets. The ability to deliver high levels of laser power with sufficient accuracy are two of the major areas that need to be demonstrated in order to provide confidence in the performance and viability of LDEW systems.<\/p>\n<p>The programme has developed a UK Sovereign \u2018Centre of Excellence\u2019 staffed with experts from multiple fields. LDEW have the potential to provide lower cost lethality, reduced logistical burden and increased effectiveness when compared to other weapon systems \u2013 the technology could have a huge effect on the future of Defence operations.<\/p>\n<p>The programme\u2019s specialist industry partners are:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MBDA\">@MBDA<\/a> with overall responsibility for the system and have developed the advanced command and control (C2) and image processing capabilities;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/dragonfire-next-generation-laser-dstl\">Continue reading \u201cDragonFire | Next Generation Laser | Dstl\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK @Ministry of Defence #Defence Science and #Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has hosted the UK\u2019s first high-powered, long-range #Laser Directed Energy Weapon (LDEW) trial on its ranges at Porton Down. The trials involve firing the UK #DragonFire demonstrator at a number of targets over a number of ranges, demanding pinpoint accuracy from the beam director. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149757","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}