{"id":24391,"date":"2016-04-07T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/us-navy-increasing-combat-lasers-power-to-500-kilowatt-level-by-2020-to-counter-ballistic-missiles"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:32:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:32:54","slug":"us-navy-increasing-combat-lasers-power-to-500-kilowatt-level-by-2020-to-counter-ballistic-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/us-navy-increasing-combat-lasers-power-to-500-kilowatt-level-by-2020-to-counter-ballistic-missiles","title":{"rendered":"US Navy increasing combat lasers power to 500 kilowatt level by 2020 to counter ballistic missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-navy-increasing-combat-lasers-power-to-500-kilowatt-level-by-2020-to-counter-ballistic-missiles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2012, the US Navy initiated the SSL Technology Maturation (SSL-TM) program, in which industry teams led by BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon, among others, competed to develop a shipboard laser with a beam power of 100 kW to 150 kW by 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Boosting beam power further\u2014to something like 200 kW or 300 kW\u2014could permit a laser to counter at least some ASCMs. Even stronger beam powers\u2014on the order of at least several hundred kW, if not one megawatt (MW) or more\u2014could improve a laser\u2019s effectiveness against ASCMs (Anti-Ship Cruise Missile) and enable it to counter ASBMs (Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile.<\/p>\n<p>By 2020, it should be possible to demonstrate a 250\u2013500 kW laser weapon system, one appropriate for deployment on current surface combatants and capable of being a game changer in the Navy\u2019s struggle to address the growing A2\/AD challenge.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/04\/us-navy-increasing-combat-lasers-power.html\">http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/04\/us-navy-increasing-combat-lasers-power.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012, the US Navy initiated the SSL Technology Maturation (SSL-TM) program, in which industry teams led by BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon, among others, competed to develop a shipboard laser with a beam power of 100 kW to 150 kW by 2016. Boosting beam power further\u2014to something like 200 kW or 300 kW\u2014could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24391","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62131,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24391\/revisions\/62131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}