"Directed Energy: The Time for Laser Weapon Systems has Come." --Lockheed Martin.
The directed energy weapon will go to sea with a guided missile destroyer assigned to the Pacific Fleet.
The service placed an order for HELIOS in January 2019. The $150 million contract, awarded to Lockheed Martin, calls for the company to deliver two systems.
According to a company press release, one will go to White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico for testing. USNI News says the Navy will install the other on an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer.
HELIOS is a 60-kilowatt laser system, meaning it has twice the power of the AN/SEQ-3 Laser Weapon System, or LaWS installed on the USS Ponce in 2014.
September 17, 2020
‘Beijing & Moscow have weaponized space through killer satellites, directed energy weapons’, says Defense Secretary Mark Espe.
“In space, Moscow and Beijing have turned a once peaceful arena into a war fighting domain. They have weaponized space through killer satellites, directed energy weapons, and more in an effort to exploit our systems and chip away at our military advantage” — Secretary of Defense Mark Esper
“Thanks to our largest research and development budget in the department’s history, we are advancing critical technologies to maintain our military edge in areas such as hypersonic weapons, directed energy and autonomous systems,” Esper said.
Directed energy weapons can be very effective against swarm attacks, a Pentagon official said in 2018.
When Dr. Michael Griffin was still the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering back in 2018, he said that directed energy weapons could be very powerful defenses against drone swarms.
“For defense against them [swarm attacks], one of the things that I think will be most promising is directed energy in one form or another.
“We often think about directed energy as large lasers, and I’ve certainly been involved with some of that for decades, but we also have high power microwaves which can be very effective as what we call an electronics kill,” Griffin said at the time.
Esper spoke a day after Gen. John Raymond, who heads Space Force.
Raymond revealed that the force’s Space Based Infrared System satellites were used to detect Iranian missiles aimed at American war planes in January.
Raymond praised the 2nd Space Warning Squadron at Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado.
Hypersonic systems are becoming integral to the United States’ military’s future strategy in key theaters such as the Indo-Pacific region, where China currently holds the advantage in cruise missiles.
Russia too, is excelling in this area, much to the concern of the Pentagon. Meanwhile, research and development has already led to several systems approaching operational status.
The USAF and Lockheed Martin are working on the AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW), a boost-glide hypersonic system.
The wedge-shaped ARRW has been tested in captive flights on a B-52 Stratofortress and is expected to be operational by 2022.
A 2004 report commissioned by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) studied “plasmas generated by electron beams and high-voltage nanosecond pulses” using a “microwave-driven supersonic plasma wind tunnel,” the report said.
Alongside the burgeoning hypersonic revolution, directed energy systems continue to become smaller and more powerful, and applications like the energy deposition concepts seem far more possible than they were in decades past.
Mr. Esper said the X-37 space plane is one of the systems that will enhance high-technology military capabilities, the first time the secretive reusable spacecraft has been mentioned as part of military defenses.
The X-37 has conducted six missions and is currently in orbit.
"U.S. military power in the future will be depend on maintaining superiority in the ultimate high ground.”
According to DARPA’s High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS) project briefing, “Enemy surface-to-air threats to manned and unmanned aircraft have become increasingly sophisticated, creating a need for rapid and effective response to this growing category of threats.
“High power lasers can provide a solution to this challenge, as they harness the speed and power of light to counter multiple threats. Laser weapon systems provide additional capability for offensive missions as well—adding precise targeting with low probability of collateral damage.”
Directed Energy Weapons: Timeline
August 11, 2020
Below is an edited extract of the DEW timeline from the Directed Energy Weapons (Defense) – Thematic Research report produced by GlobalData Thematic Research.
1959 – Russia claimed to have developed a microwave-powered anti-ballistic missile system.
1972 – The UK used laser weapons during Falkland War.
1985 – Japan initiated development of laser and microwave weapons for defensive purposes.
1996 – Genasys, formerly LRAD, launched its first directed sound technology.
2001 – Raytheon demonstrated the Active Denial System as a 'non-lethal' DEW.
2002 – An anti-missile laser, called Tactical High Energy Laser (THEL), developed jointly by the US and Israel successfully incinerated an incoming artillery round.
2003 – Genasys developed the Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD).
2009-2011 – US Navy successfully tested a prototype solid-state laser (SSL) called the Laser Weapon System (LaWS) against UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles).
(OR MANNED AERIAL VEHICLES?)
2010 – A Mid-Infrared Advanced Chemical Laser destroyed a Titan missile booster, marking the first successful deployment of laser weapon technology.
2010-2011 – US Navy tested another prototype SSL called the Maritime Laser Demonstration (MLD) on a Navy ship against a small boat.
2011 – The first airborne laser system, Boeing YAL-1 was tested on Boeing 747 by the US which could destroy ballistic missiles in flight.
2011 – Raytheon demonstrated a ship mounted laser weapon which was capable of taking drones down with a 50 kW beam development.
2011 – Boeing initiated a Free Electron Laser (FEL) development.
2014 – Rafael unveils the “Iron Beam” – a mobile high-energy laser-based air defence system.
2014 – Boeing introduced an anti-drone compact laser weapon system.
2014 – A 15 kW laser beam was tested to inflamate small boats causing threat to the US naval ships.
2014 – Raytheon delivered the AN/SEQ-3 LaWS to the US Navy.
2014 – Boeing introduced the High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD).
2014 – Lockheed Martin tested prototypes of Aero-adaptive Aero-optic Beam Control Turret on commercial jets.
2015 – Israel tested the first intercept the Arrow 3.
2016 – Russian firm, Unified Instrument-Making Corporation, announced the development of radio electronic weapon.
2017 – China announced launching the “Silent Hunter” – a fiber optics laser air defense system.
2017 – Russia begun to test a land-based a laser weapon system called “Peresvet”.
2017 – The UK initiated the Dragofire Program.
2019 – USS Portland (LPD 27) was fitted with a new, 150-kilowatt laser weapon developed by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Northrop Grumman.
2019 – UK began to test the Dragonfire, prototype Laser DEW capability demonstrator.
The U.S. Navy Plans to Put HELIOS Laser Weapon on Destroyer by 2021.
HELIOS will be capable of downing drones and “burning boats”.
"What We DEW: Continuous Power and Efficiency for Directed Energy Applications." --Honeywell Defense & Space
Military Police Wanted to Use This 'Heat Ray' Weapon Against D.C. Protesters
The "pain beam" won't kill you, but it's extremely unpleasant.
The Active Denial System (ADS) produces scalding heat, while the Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) bombards targets with painful, intense sound.
The weapons, although specifically designed not to kill or permanently injure...have been described as “too scary to use.”
in 2000.
These new weapons would be partially cued by a planned constellation of sensor satellites in low Earth orbit that will keep tabs on Russian, North Korean, or Chinese mobile missiles — part of the “space-based sensor layer” that is to be in place by 2023 under a program backed by U.S. Strategic Command’s Air Force Gen. John Hyten.
[OH, LIKE ELON MUSK'S "5G" SATELLITES?]
Trey Obering, who led the Missile Defense Agency as a three-star general, said in November, 2019, “Imagine if you were able to put up a laser that would achieve boost phase defense? … If you were to put up a constellation of lasers and reflectors, there, you’re taking multiple shots per laser and not just one shot.”
[Starlink is a satellite internet constellation being constructed by SpaceX 'providing satellite Internet access'.
ABOVE: The ISS Space Sky Laser at the Kennedy Space Center NASA
Related:
--Congress Rushes to Spend Billions on Space Weapons—Even if They Don’t Work
YOU MAY RUN, BUT YOU CANNOT HIDE
How AI (Artificial Intelligence) Will Find You In the Crowd, Without Facial Recognition
Dubbed idtracker.ai, their approach uses a convolutional neural network, or CNN, a method of deep learning that mimics, somewhat, the way human and other mammal brains make sense of the world around them.
The DHS and the Director of National Intelligence have exponentially escalated mass surveillance since 2001. A series of media reports in 2013 revealed more recent programs and techniques employed by the US intelligence community.
On 19 June 2013, FBI Director Robert Mueller told the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary that the federal government had been employing surveillance drones on U.S. soil in "particular incidents".
In February 2013, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department explained that these drones would initially be deployed in large public gatherings, including major protests.
Over time, tiny drones would be used to fly inside buildings to track down suspects and assist in investigations.
Advances in computer and information technology allow the creation of huge national databases that facilitate mass surveillance in the United States[8] by DHS managed Fusion centers, the CIA's Terrorist Threat Integration Center (TTIC) program, and the FBI's TSDB.
Sep 17, 2013
NASA Has Invented a Lightweight Machine That Can Detect a Human Heartbeat Under 30 Feet of Rubble
They call it "FINDER".
"People have done this for a while," Jim Lux at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab says of radar technology that can detect heartbeats and breathing.
"The difference between previous life-detecting radar technology and FINDER is like the difference between the first super computer and an iPhone: ease of use.
The basic underlying technique has been around for decades. Technology from the wireless industry made it small and cheap."
FINDER in action.
It can locate people under 30 feet (about 9 meters) of crushed material, hidden behind 20 feet (about 6 meters) of solid concrete, and from a distance of 100 feet (about 30 meters) in open spaces.
FINDER was developed in conjunction with Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate.
Advanced algorithms isolate the tiny signals from a person's moving chest by filtering out other signals, such as those from moving trees and animals.
Similar technology has potential applications in NASA's future human missions to space habitats. The astronauts' vital signs could be monitored without the need for wires.
The Dept. of Homeland Security worked with Lockheed Martin to develop a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) technology that would be designed specifically for finding underground tunnels.
The first patent for a system designed to use continuous-wave radar to locate buried objects was submitted by Gotthelf Leimbach and Heinrich Löwy in 1910, six years after the first patent for radar itself.
I MUST WONDER, WHAT KIND OF TECHNOLOGY IS 'OUT THERE' THAT WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT, TECHNOLOGY THAT CAN LOCATE ANYONE, ANYWHERE...AND TAKE THEM OUT IN AN INSTANT?
'Anti-crime robots' fly over Los Angeles
In 2006, the police department of L.A. decided to experiment with remote-controlled drones to patrol the city.
What happened since then?
The drones are an everyday part of the force.
Agencies across the country have steadily embraced drones in one form or another.
According to a May 2018 report from Bard College’s Center for the Study of the Drone, at least 910 state and local police, sheriff, fire, and emergency services agencies in the U.S. had acquired drones, formally known as unmanned aerial systems.
COMBINE ALL THE NEW TYPES OF WEAPONRY WITH THE ABILITY TO FIND 'TARGETS' HIDING UNDERGROUND, BEHIND CONCRETE, LISTEN TO CONVERSATIONS FROM BLOCKS AWAY AND IT SURE SEEMS THAT, SHOULD OUR GOVERNMENT GO "FULL-COURT TYRANT", WE WOULDN'T STAND MUCH OF A CHANCE.
BE AWARE.
//WW
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