{"id":77744,"date":"2018-04-12T09:22:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T16:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/ara-develops-lightweight-laser-weapon-system"},"modified":"2018-04-12T09:22:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T16:22:28","slug":"ara-develops-lightweight-laser-weapon-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/ara-develops-lightweight-laser-weapon-system","title":{"rendered":"ARA Develops Lightweight Laser Weapon System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ara-develops-lightweight-laser-weapon-system2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ALBUQUERQUE, NM \u2013 Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) is developing a compact, completely self-contained directed-energy weapon that is the first of its size and specifications, making it a standout from existing systems.<\/p>\n<p>The Silent Saber is high power, 1.5 kilowatt fiber laser packaged in a backpack with power supplies and a unique thermal control system. A telescope with multiple potential mounting configurations can be mounted to existing Picatinny rails of a soldier\u2019s rifle, and a laser is connected to the telescope by a fiber cable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis tool provides options to the warfighter to support explosive ordnance disposal, counter infrastructure and counter drone missions,\u201d said Principal Engineer Joseph Paranto, ARA\u2019s Director of Directed Energy Systems.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ara.com\/news\/ara-develops-lightweight-laser-weapon-system\">https:\/\/www.ara.com\/news\/ara-develops-lightweight-laser-weapon-system<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALBUQUERQUE, NM \u2013 Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) is developing a compact, completely self-contained directed-energy weapon that is the first of its size and specifications, making it a standout from existing systems. The Silent Saber is high power, 1.5 kilowatt fiber laser packaged in a backpack with power supplies and a unique thermal control system. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1497,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-energy","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77744","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=77744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}