Israel unveils ‘breakthrough’ in laser technology
The Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDRD), during a Israel Ministry of Defense suggested that a technological breakthrough has been achieved in a growth of lasers for a interception of RAM (rocket, mortar, and artillery) threats, UAVs, and ATGMs
Head of a Directorate of Research and Development in a DDRD, Brig. Gen. Yaniv Rotem stated: “We are entering a new age of appetite crusade in a air, land and sea. The RD investments done by a DDRD in a final years have placed a State of Israel among a heading countries in a margin of high-energy laser systems. Throughout a year 2020 we will control a demo of a capabilities.”
Today a DDRD in a Israel Ministry of Defense suggested a investment in laser technology, that has led to a technological breakthrough that will capacitate a growth of platforms to prevent a accumulation of threats. Based on high-energy lasers, this record will prompt a vital change in a invulnerability capabilities of a State of Israel.
As a outcome of a aforementioned technological breakthrough, a DDRD has launched 3 programs for a growth of high-energy laser demo systems in team-work with invulnerability industries, Rafael and Elbit Systems:
- · Development of a demo ground-based laser element to element a capabilities of a Iron Dome (an additional covering to a atmosphere invulnerability array)
- · Development of a scheme platform-mounted laser element to urge infantry in a field
- · Development of a laser demo element mounted on an atmosphere height to prevent threats above cloud covers and for a invulnerability of far-reaching areas