レーザーらしきものでミサイルのような物を撃ち落としてます。
こんなの実用化されそうなのか？
動画の参照先を覗いてみたらLaserSystemsってのがあったので見てみる。
Space Technology is the birthplace of many exciting, leading-edge laser technologies that hold tremendous promise for our nation’s defense. Our laser scientists and engineers continue to define the state-of-the-art three decades after developing the world’s first high-energy weapon-class (>100KW) laser. Our technical staff is supported by an infrastructure unique in our industry, including the Capistrano Test Site, a-one-of-a-kind facility that serves as a proving ground for past and future laser systems.
We turn ideas into designs and designs into products that meet the rigorous demands of our customers. We have extensive laboratories for optical fabrication and test, as well as clean rooms, vacuum chambers and related equipment for space simulation, calibration and performance testing of lasers ranging in power from watts to megawatts. Our precision metrology lab is unique in its ability to characterize the performance of high-energy laser optics.
Our expertise in electric and chemical lasers is unmatched. Multiple development efforts are ongoing for high-power, solid-state lasers (scaling their power to the 25kW class) and high-power fiber lasers (for which we recently set a world record attaining the highest power for a polarization-maintained amplifier).
Starting in 2000 and continuing today, Space Technology has developed the Tactical High Energy Laser (THEL), an end-to-end laser weapon system that has demonstrated the ability to acquire, track and shoot down rockets and artillery shells. We’re currently developing the MW-class laser segment for the Airborne Laser Program (ABL), destined to provide the world’s first laser ballistic missile defense system. And we’re moving forward, taking our THEL capability onto a mobile platform.
Northrop Grumman > ST > Capabilities > Technology > Lasers
さらっと斜め読みしかしてないけど、100kw超の高出力レーザーを使って砲弾とかミサイルを加熱破壊する系統のもんなのかね。
しかし動画を見る限り可視レーザーを使ってるみたいだけど効率悪く無いんかな。(ただのガイド光かもしれんけど。)
紫外レーザーあたりのが出力も稼ぎやすいと思うんだがなぁ。
って射程距離の問題との兼ね合いかね。
つか有効射程距離ってどんぐらいあるんだろ。
動画を見る限りせいぜい数百m程度に見えるんだがそれじゃイマイチ使い道ねーような気がする。
かといって数kmまで広げようとすると拡散損失増えすぎてパワーロスが馬鹿にならんからなぁ。
ひょっとしてそもそも熱エネルギーでどうこうする類のもんじゃない？
ってビデオ見る限り熱破壊としか思えないしなぁ。
雨とか雲とかで拡散されちゃうんじゃかなり兵器としてアレだと思うが。
ここまで出力高いと拡散するまでもなく突き抜けるのかね。
よーわからん。
もうちっと勉強してみよう。