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Raytheon Announces Directed Energy Milestones
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Mike Booen discusses Directed Energy
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Date posted: 07/22/2010*
A Raytheon-U.S. Navy team used a high power, solid-state laser combined with a Phalanx Close-in Weapon System to shoot down four UAVs off San Nicolas Island near California. Powered by electricity, the system offers an affordable and almost infinite magazine to stop incoming threats. Once development is completed, the Laser Area Weapon System will give the warfighter a speed-of-light solution for defeating rockets, mortars, UAVs and other targets.
Raytheon intends to be a major player in the U.S. Army’s Common Infrared Countermeasures competition. Raytheon Missile Systems has developed a CIRCM solution, known as Scorpion that will feature the company’s production-matured directed infrared countermeasures turret and a rugged quantum cascade laser (QCL). Scorpion will be a light-weight, low-cost, highly reliable, laser-based infrared countermeasures solution against current and future IR guided threat missiles.
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"Directed energy essentially gives warfighters an unlimited magazine. As long as they have electricity they have photons, and as long as they have photons they have bullets.”
Mike Booen
Raytheon’s Vice President of Advanced Security and Directed Energy Systems“We actually shot down four of four operational UAVs. They were all destroyed and crashed into the sea.”
Mike Booen
Raytheon’s Vice President of Advanced Security and Directed Energy Systems“We’ve teamed with the Navy to bring the solid state lasers to the warfighter. We’ve linked a solid state laser to an actual U.S. Navy program of record, and that is Laser Phalanx.”
Mike Booen
Raytheon’s Vice President of Advanced Security and Directed Energy Systems
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