Navy Test Fires New Deadly Laser Proto-type

A new improved laser capable of shooting down air borne missiles in the sky within a few ‎seconds accurately without ever missing the target has been test-fired by the Navy, ‎setting up a new record in the process. The Laser accelerator developed by the Navy ‎imparts a high level of energy in the intensified laser light beam that is capable of ‎destroying whatever object that crosses its path. The electron beam so produced is so ‎supercharged that it can blaze through 20 feet of tough steel per second.‎

Scientists at the Jefferson Lab in Newport News, VA, in consultation with the Office of ‎The Naval Research (ONR) were able to inject 500 kilovolts of energy into a proto-type ‎accelerator, breaking the earlier record of infusing energy at 320 kilovolts, and thus ‎creating a highly energized electronic light beam under the Free Electron Laser Program ‎‎(FEL).The breakthrough had occurred after almost six years of intense research and ‎follow-up.‎

Their efforts translates into newer frontiers of Laser applications and research, opening ‎up the ‘mega watt’ class of high energy laser applications, qualitatively improved beam ‎and beam strength, additional weaponization. The new technology only requires a source ‎to continuously generate electrons and intensify the beam, can perform at varying ‎wavelengths which can be subjected to control as desired, and is independent of the ‎weather conditions. Optimization is a distinct possibility to suit the chosen end use ‎application.‎