{"id":87439,"date":"2019-02-06T08:02:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T16:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/us-needs-megawatt-class-combat-lasers-to-counter-hypersonic-missiles"},"modified":"2019-02-06T08:02:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T16:02:40","slug":"us-needs-megawatt-class-combat-lasers-to-counter-hypersonic-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/us-needs-megawatt-class-combat-lasers-to-counter-hypersonic-missiles","title":{"rendered":"US needs megawatt class combat lasers to counter hypersonic missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-needs-megawatt-class-combat-lasers-to-counter-hypersonic-missiles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2018\/11\/16\/dod-official-u-s-needs-develop-new-counters-future-hypersonic-missiles\">Michael Griffin, the undersecretary for research and engineering, expects future budgets to provide funds for lasers that the missile defense agency can more rapidly develop and field.<\/a> Space-control needs to have megawatt-class lasers.<\/p>\n<p>Hypersonic weapons\u2019 low signature in flight and high degree of maneuverability upon final approach to targets make the weapons difficult to defend against.<\/p>\n<p>The last time the US really invested in transformative capabilities that overwhelmed adversaries [in Desert Storm] was the Reagan era.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2018\/11\/us-needs-megawatt-class-combat-lasers-to-counter-hypersonic-missiles.html\">https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2018\/11\/us-needs-megawatt-clas...siles.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Griffin, the undersecretary for research and engineering, expects future budgets to provide funds for lasers that the missile defense agency can more rapidly develop and field. Space-control needs to have megawatt-class lasers. Hypersonic weapons\u2019 low signature in flight and high degree of maneuverability upon final approach to targets make the weapons difficult to defend [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87439","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}