US Military Develops a New Laser Defense System (Enemies Beware)

[bleedingboi]

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Using lasers for tracking objects through the sky has been possible for years, but there's never been anything like Lockheed's new laser defense system successfully tested last week.

It's not that using high-powered lasers to drop incoming missiles is anything new, and was achieved by Boeing with a nine-year Air Force project that was canceled in 2011. That monster laser was packed into a 747 and designed to head off ballistic missiles fired at the U.S. from very far away. Raytheon then tested their laser defense on a drone for the Navy in 2010, but now Lockheed's distilled the process down for battlefield troops.
Here's how it works: Imagine being shacked up with a handful of others at a Forward Operating Base, way, way into enemy territory beyond any immediate help, behind some makeshift stone walls and plywood. Some are sleeping, while others stand watch using night vision to leach signs of danger from dark. When the attack comes it starts with shoulder launched rockets — but rather than just seeing the flash and yelling for cover, the troops are protected by Area Defense Anti-Munitions.
Called ADAM, the small white trailer with the big laser takes its cue from radar blanketing the area three miles out. The radar has already kicked the laser awake when the guys on watch saw the flash. By the time they're diving for cover and warning their buddies, the ADAM has locked onto the rocket and is burning it out of the sky from over a mile away.After keeping everyone from getting blown up, ADAM would then afford troops the time to coordinate their counter-attack where even more lives would be saved.
That's the idea anyway, though there would be countless other uses for the technology. The video released by Lockheed yesterday shows the ADAM making short work of a tethered rocket from about a mile away.


Lockheed Martin's ADAM Laser Defense - Business Insider

[Axelremadeyo]

super advance kaayo ang america in terms of weapons, the other countries are miles away in technology. if this will be added to the defense system of the states,then its a very good deterrent from missiles aimed at the us territory.

[jan_moreno]

O galing lang hadlok gyapon sila mo hilabot sa IRAN..... hehehe..... hadlok sila na mahutdan ug oil reserve, kay naka aim na ang tanan nga missile sa iran going to saudi.... if mahitabo mawala sa mapa ang saudi..... ug ang US kalolooy kay almost 75% sa oil nila consumption and business kay naa sa saudi....

[DEMONOCIETY]

super advance kaayo ang america in terms of weapons, the other countries are miles away in technology. if this will be added to the defense system of the states,then its a very good deterrent from missiles aimed at the us territory.

mao! kita nagpabilin pa jud ta sa stone age dawat lang ug donation bisan gubaon sige na lang

[GlazerPro]

O galing lang hadlok gyapon sila mo hilabot sa IRAN..... hehehe..... hadlok sila na mahutdan ug oil reserve, kay naka aim na ang tanan nga missile sa iran going to saudi.... if mahitabo mawala sa mapa ang saudi..... ug ang US kalolooy kay almost 75% sa oil nila consumption and business kay naa sa saudi....

Naa nai plano daan ang US ana just in case it happens. It could be that the oil problem is just a decoy to fool their enemies.

[mindtrickz]

dali ra kaayo ni kupyahon

[maniniyot]

ma gyud. and this is just among the publicized weapons. wala pay labot ang mga secret lang.

[jeremiahjay]

O galing lang hadlok gyapon sila mo hilabot sa IRAN..... hehehe..... hadlok sila na mahutdan ug oil reserve, kay naka aim na ang tanan nga missile sa iran going to saudi.... if mahitabo mawala sa mapa ang saudi..... ug ang US kalolooy kay almost 75% sa oil nila consumption and business kay naa sa saudi....

Ingon pa sa akong teacher sauna, ang US tigpalit sa ubang nasod pero ila oil reserve ila gipugngan..pahutdun daw ang uban..anyway ambot unsa ka tinoud..

[lolzXD]

Wa may laser2 ang Pinas, live wire nuon naa

[elvandesantos]

Ingon pa sa akong teacher sauna, ang US tigpalit sa ubang nasod pero ila oil reserve ila gipugngan..pahutdun daw ang uban..anyway ambot unsa ka tinoud..

yep. it aint called oil "reserve" for nothing

wise? sure does.