Recent advances in ultra-high-power lasers, including the
free-electron laser, and impressive airborne demonstrations of
laser weapons systems, such as the airborne laser, have shown the
enormous potential of laser technology to revolutionize
21st century warfare.
Military Laser Technology for Defense, includes only
unclassified or declassified information. The book focuses on
military applications that involve propagation of light through the
atmosphere and provides basic relevant background technology. It
describes high-power lasers and
masers, including the free-electron laser. Further, Military
Laser Technology for Defense addresses how laser technology can
effectively mitigate six of the most pressing military threats of
the 21st century: attack by missiles, terrorists, chemical and
biological weapons, as well as difficulty in imaging in bad weather
and threats from directed beam weapons and future nuclear
weapons. The author believes that laser technology will
revolutionize warfare in the 21st century.
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