• The High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS), is a counter-RAM system under development that will use a powerful (150 kW) laser to shoot...
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    laser Airborne laser Boeing YAL-1 High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS) Skyguard Peresvet "US and Israel Shelved Laser as a Defense"...
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    A laser weapon is a type of directed-energy weapon that uses lasers to inflict damage. Whether they will be deployed as practical, high-performance military...
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    laser) Avionics 1 × ABL infrared detector system 2 × Target Illuminator lasers Advanced Tactical Laser High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System Tactical...
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    laser was discontinued after successful testing.[citation needed] YAL-1 Airborne Laser – (United States) Chemical laser High Energy Liquid Laser Area...
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    (IRI). High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS) The goal of the HELLADS program was to develop a 150 kilowatt (kW) laser weapon system. In...
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    feature used in applications such as laser pointers, lidar, and free-space optical communication. Lasers can also have high temporal coherence, which permits...
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    The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), derisively nicknamed the Star Wars program, was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United...
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    submission. Boeing YAL-1 Airborne Laser (ABL) – Team ABL proposed and won the contract for this system in 1996. A high-energy laser mounted on a converted 747...
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    Fusion power (redirect from Fusion energy)
    three main systems: z-pinch, stellarator, and magnetic mirror. The current leading designs are the tokamak and inertial confinement (ICF) by laser. Both designs...
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    California and Washington state. Boeing chose to locate the defense systems offices in the St. Louis area because of the role of the space and aircraft programs...
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  • Department of Energy, the University of Rochester and the New York State government. The Laser Lab was commissioned to investigate high-energy physics involving...
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  • This is a list of laser topics. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Physics portal M. Born and E. Wolf, Principles...
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  • Archived from the original on 3 February 2011. Retrieved 4 February 2011. "Laser gun tested on US Navy ship in Pacific Ocean". BBC News. 11 April 2011. Archived...
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  • latter disclosing Avenger swarms equipped with High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS). Cognitive radio[clarification needed] technology may...
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    anti-ballistic missile system S-400 Triumf Skyguard chemical laser-based area defense system proposed by Northrop Grumman Sky Bow Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star...
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    medical and commercial laser applications have been developed since the invention of the laser in 1958. The coherency, high monochromaticity, and ability...
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    physics, laser guidance, airborne laser swathe mapping (ALSM), and laser altimetry. It is used to make digital 3-D representations of areas on the Earth's...
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    A high-altitude platform station (HAPS, which can also mean high-altitude pseudo-satellite or high-altitude platform systems), also known as atmospheric...
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    prototype non-lethal laser dazzler developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate, U.S. Department of Defense. Its purpose is...
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    powder-fed directed-energy deposition, a high-power laser is used to melt metal powder supplied to the focus of the laser beam. The laser beam typically travels...
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  • Anti-tank Weapon LB – Long Barrel LC – Laser Collimator LCD – Liquid crystal display LCS – Loader Control System LCU – Landing Craft Utility LCV – Light...
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    National Ignition Facility (category Inertial confinement fusion research lasers)
    fusion. NIF hosts the world's most energetic laser. The laser heats the outer layer of a small sphere. The energy is so intense that it causes the sphere to...
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    propellant reservoir that stores the liquid metal, a narrow tube or a system of parallel plates that the liquid flows through and an accelerator (a ring...
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  • distance of 2 km. The system will integrate thermographic camera, high-resolution video cameras, laser illuminators and laser range finders to detect...
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    directed-energy deposition (also known as laser metal deposition), a high-power laser is used to melt metal powder supplied to the focus of the laser beam...
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    in the development of airborne high-energy laser weapons. The High Energy Laser Radar Acquisition and Tracking System (HELRATS) was designed specifically...
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    directly in the combiner rather than use a projection system. Fourth Generation—Use a scanning laser to display images and even video imagery on a clear...
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    launch high-velocity projectiles. The projectile normally does not contain explosives, instead relying on the projectile's high kinetic energy to inflict...
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    consecutive layers of certain ultraviolet light-sensitive liquid resins with a low-power laser. With the introduction of RP, CAD solid models could suddenly...
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