Americans created a laser ground "anti-aircraft gun"

Yes, laser swords are already a reality, lasers mounted on airplanes are also a reality. Now the US military decided to create a ground (or ship) laser cannon to deal with almost all types of aircraft and flying weapons (missiles). By the way, the same gun can be used for shooting, so to speak, on small ships.

The technology can now be ported to Phalanx, the U.S. missile defense system that integrates many 20 mm cannons and a radar system. According to Mike Buen, the laser will be used as the last line of defense, because the laser gun does not have a limit of projectiles, it emits photons (of course, it needs a powerful power supply system, but it seems that the United States will have the means to create this).

By the way, the operation of the laser gun has already been demonstrated, it is shown in the video here at this link (BBC).

Generally speaking, it sounds like science fiction, but really, because there is already a laser weapon that flies (as mentioned above), so why not make a ground-based laser gun? The only major problem with this type of weapon is weather conditions. In rain or just humid air, the laser will be ineffective. By the time the beam reaches the target, it will already lose a significant part of its power absorbed by droplets of moisture.



In addition, some types of surfaces are also capable of absorbing laser energy.

“Any type of material has a certain reflectivity, but the more powerful the laser, the more types of materials can hit. Unfortunately, there are materials for which the power of our laser is not enough to hit, ”says Buen. But in tests, our weapons showed themselves not bad, having hit an automatic flying appart, which was hit in a marine climate.

“The drones will begin to have big problems with the implementation of our system,” the developers of the system assure.



This video shows the system on which the laser is installed (it is NOT installed there yet) .

Here is the source .