{"id":94393,"date":"2019-08-03T02:42:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T09:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/us-army-fielding-50-kilowatt-lasers-in-2022-and-300-kw-in-2024"},"modified":"2019-08-03T02:42:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T09:42:45","slug":"us-army-fielding-50-kilowatt-lasers-in-2022-and-300-kw-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/us-army-fielding-50-kilowatt-lasers-in-2022-and-300-kw-in-2024","title":{"rendered":"US Army Fielding 50 Kilowatt Lasers in 2022 and 300 KW In 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-army-fielding-50-kilowatt-lasers-in-2022-and-300-kw-in-2024.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/225276\/army_awards_laser_weapon_system_contract\">The US Army will field 50 kilowatt (kW)-class lasers on a platoon of four Stryker vehicles in 2022.<\/a> They will support the Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense (M-SHORAD) mission. The directed energy M-SHORAD capability is intended to protect maneuvering Brigade Combat Teams from unmanned aerial systems (UAS), rotary-wing aircraft, and rockets, artillery and mortar (RAM).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Army will field 50 kilowatt (kW)-class lasers on a platoon of four Stryker vehicles in 2022. They will support the Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense (M-SHORAD) mission. The directed energy M-SHORAD capability is intended to protect maneuvering Brigade Combat Teams from unmanned aerial systems (UAS), rotary-wing aircraft, and rockets, artillery and mortar (RAM).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94393","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=94393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}