HEL II.

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"'I’m extremely skeptical that we can put a large laser on an aircraft and use it to shoot down an adversary missile even from very close.'” - - Mike Griffin.

HEL = High Energy Laser.

Once again the topic the military laser as a directed energy weapon. As proposed to be carried on 6th generation combat aircraft. See prior blog entry.

HERE ACCORDING TO ARTHUR ZWERN A POSSIBLE METHOD BY WHICH DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS CAN BE EMPLOYED IN COMBAT:

"Lasers might be scary, but the combination of 'pinpoint accuracy plus zero time of flight' is an extremely powerful capability for taking out an enemy with zero blast radius. So long as the laser is powerful enough to kill not just maim, I hope the military gets over its reticence to use them tactically. Whether you burn a hole through someone [or an enemy missile or warplane] with explosives or photons, lethality is the purpose of military weapons, and precision counts. I would think that a swarm of seeker drones feeding target data to a large HEL [High Energy Laser] drone might be a tactically efficient way to patrol and control many current hot spots at large scale with zero blue team [the friendlies] risk."

A swarm of small [mini] drones used for target acquisition and fire control for a transport aircraft able to carry and provide power for a HEL. HEL able to engage targets of whatever sort. A transport combat warplane of the Boeing 747 or AC-130 variety perhaps.

coolbert.