is THIS why the F22 and F35 cannot even FLY yet? Think about it..what better way to get rid of programs you have no use for? Thats AFTER billions of TAXPAYER DOLLARS have been wasted of course.. ------------------------------------ Popular Science sat down with Lockheed Martins Chief Technology Officer Ray Johnson to talk about the future of war and the future of technology. The conversation started with lasers, worked its way through 3-D printing, and ended with a perspective on the military aircraft of the future. Popular Science: What current thing are you most excited about, what’s the big shiny thing you talk to people about? Ray Johnson: The work that we’ve been doing for the last few years to develop a fiber-based laser that uses beam-combining technology to achieve higher power levels of a particularly high quality beam. We purchased a company a few years ago called Aculight. Aculight has been developing this fiber laser technology for a number of years and every year they have increased the power levels and goals and they recently conducted a 30-kilowatt demonstration. From analysis of the physics behind the components of the laser it looks like there are no physics challenges to achieve 100kw and possibly, to be determined, 300kw looks quite feasible. I’m expecting that over the next few years we’ll achieve the 100kw capability. It’s game changing. Should you develop an operational weapon that operates at Mach a million, that’s game changing.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 03:02:29 +0000
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