{"id":81756,"date":"2018-08-16T01:22:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T08:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/us-targets-a-megawatt-laser-by-2023-and-then-deployment-in-drones-and-satellites-for-hypersonic-and-icbm-defense"},"modified":"2018-08-16T01:22:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T08:22:38","slug":"us-targets-a-megawatt-laser-by-2023-and-then-deployment-in-drones-and-satellites-for-hypersonic-and-icbm-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/us-targets-a-megawatt-laser-by-2023-and-then-deployment-in-drones-and-satellites-for-hypersonic-and-icbm-defense","title":{"rendered":"US targets a megawatt laser by 2023 and then deployment in drones and satellites for hypersonic and ICBM defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-targets-a-megawatt-laser-by-2023-and-then-deployment-in-drones-and-satellites-for-hypersonic-and-icbm-defense.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US Congress wants the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to rapidly develop and demonstrate a boost-phase ICBM (and hypersonic weapon) intercept capability as soon as practicable.<\/p>\n<p>Space-based laser <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/land\/2017\/11\/16\/congress-signals-focus-of-ballistic-missile-defense-review-in-policy-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\">weapons technology is one of the options.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2018\/08\/us-targets-a-megawatt-laser-by-2023-and-then-deployment-in-drones-and-satellites-for-hypersonic-and-icbm-defense.html\/amp\">https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2018\/08\/us-targets-a-megawatt-...e.html\/amp<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Congress wants the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to rapidly develop and demonstrate a boost-phase ICBM (and hypersonic weapon) intercept capability as soon as practicable. Space-based laser weapons technology is one of the options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1490,9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-government","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81756","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=81756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}