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2023-01-15 Science & Technology

Navy Accepts 6 More Helios Lasers - Next Batch To Be 150 KIlowatt Range

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Posted by Slenter Panda4300 2023-01-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Developed under a 2018 contract with Lockheed, the HELIOS consists of a 60-kilowatt laser and optical dazzler package designed to knock out unmanned aerial vehicles, “burn the boats,” and disrupt both airborne and shipborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance sensors, according to the Congressional Research Service.

Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2023-01-15 07:28|| 2023-01-15 07:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Per recent cables from the USEMBASSY Havana, operators and crews are encouraged to wear the prescribed Protective Ensembles.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-01-15 07:36|| 2023-01-15 07:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Missile blinding defense studies underway.

Why flares are the first line of defense for military aircraft in flight
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Lens flare

Posted by Skidmark 2023-01-15 13:40|| 2023-01-15 13:40|| Front Page Top

#4 #2, the foil bakes your potato.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-01-15 13:54|| 2023-01-15 13:54|| Front Page Top

#5 They had "High Intensity" infrared lamps on aircraft back in the Vietnam War. I knew a guy that was a "lens wiper" enlisted man whose job was to make sure the lens over the lamp was really clean because a thumbprint would cause it to burn out ...instead of frying the IR seeker heads.

Posted by magpie 2023-01-15 14:16|| 2023-01-15 14:16|| Front Page Top

#6 I would think that an EA6 would drop all drones out of the air.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-01-15 16:00|| 2023-01-15 16:00|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ The last US squadron of EA-6s was disbanded in 2019. They were 'replaced' by the EA-18 variant of the F-18. Be kind of overkill to 'glue' an EW aircraft as an anti-drone overwatch that may or not be needed ...and the carrier launching them might have other things to do.

Posted by magpie 2023-01-15 19:50|| 2023-01-15 19:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Not so much the plane as the technology.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-01-15 21:39|| 2023-01-15 21:39|| Front Page Top

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