Lockheed Martin ATHENA laser weapon system defeats a truck target by disabling the engine, demonstrating its military effectiveness against enemy ground vehicles.
(Lockheed Martin)
This is latest demonstration of a weapon used by criminals in and out of government to attack humans, and electronic devices for many years. It was alleged that Russian military used a LASER to shoot down a US satellite. They may have been used to disable civilian aircraft. But with the dumbed down media, and politicians who remain obsessed with same sex marriage and racism, who knows? Electromagnetic pulse weapons are also used to disable automobiles.
[From article]
In the demonstration, the 30-kilowatt fiber laser weapon was able to disable the truck’s engine. The purpose of the test was to show the company’s innovations in developing weapons technology that is more precise.
“Fiber-optics lasers are revolutionizing direct energy systems,” Keoki Jackson, Lockheed Martin’s chief technology officer, said in a statement. “We are investing in every component of the system – from the optics and beam control to the laser itself – to drive size, weight, and power efficiencies.”
ATHENA is a ground-based prototype system. In the test, the laser burnt through the engine in a just a few seconds, after being fired from over a mile away.
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The military is already testing laser weapons. The Office of Naval Research, for example, is building a laser weapon that will be able to shoot down aerial drones.
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Laser weapon blasts through truck
Published March 06, 2015
This is latest demonstration of a weapon used by criminals in and out of government to attack humans, and electronic devices for many years. It was alleged that Russian military used a LASER to shoot down a US satellite. They may have been used to disable civilian aircraft. But with the dumbed down media, and politicians who remain obsessed with same sex marriage and racism, who knows? Electromagnetic pulse weapons are also used to disable automobiles.
[From article]
In the demonstration, the 30-kilowatt fiber laser weapon was able to disable the truck’s engine. The purpose of the test was to show the company’s innovations in developing weapons technology that is more precise.
“Fiber-optics lasers are revolutionizing direct energy systems,” Keoki Jackson, Lockheed Martin’s chief technology officer, said in a statement. “We are investing in every component of the system – from the optics and beam control to the laser itself – to drive size, weight, and power efficiencies.”
ATHENA is a ground-based prototype system. In the test, the laser burnt through the engine in a just a few seconds, after being fired from over a mile away.
[. . .]
The military is already testing laser weapons. The Office of Naval Research, for example, is building a laser weapon that will be able to shoot down aerial drones.
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/03/06/lockheed-martin-demos-high-powered-laser-weapon-blasts-through-truck/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fmost-popular+%28Internal+-+Most+Popular+Content%29
Laser weapon blasts through truck
Published March 06, 2015
