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Raytheon Announces Directed Energy Milestones
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Mike Booen discusses Directed Energy
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Last updated: 01/25/2012*
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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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