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Israel to have partial laser defences by next year

Israel to have partial laser defenses by next year - Rafael chair

"One year from now – Israel will be the first country to have partial laser protection. In two years there may be complete protection," said Yuval Steinitz.​


Israel's ground-breaking laser system experiment carried out in the south of the country by the Defense Ministry’s Directorate of Research and Development (DDR&D, or MAFAT in Hebrew) and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. (photo credit: DEFENSE MINISTRY)


Israel's ground-breaking laser system experiment carried out in the south of the country by the Defense Ministry’s Directorate of Research and Development (DDR&D, or MAFAT in Hebrew) and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.
Israel will have partial laser defenses by this time next year, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems chairman Yuval Steinitz told Army Radio on Sunday.

"One year from now – Israel will be the first country to have partial laser protection. In two years there may be complete protection – against missiles, shells, rockets, or anything else. This will protect us both in the South and in the North," said Steinitz.

Israel's push for laser air defenses

This past February, senior Defense Ministry official Brig.-Gen. (res.) Danny Gold said Israel’s air-defense lasers, when fully deployed, will be able to shoot down the drones Iran has been sending Russia to use against Ukraine.Speaking at the Artificial Intelligence conference at Tel Aviv University at the time, the MAFAT [Directorate of Defense Research & Development] director said his ministry was working on developing “the next generation of using lasers.”

He talked about multiple successful tests destroying rockets “with a very sophisticated laser-weapons system.... We have done the same for mortars, rockets and UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles], like the Iranian UAVs they are sending to Ukraine. The same concept of UAV, we can shoot them down.”

In February 2022, then-prime minister Naftali Bennett proclaimed that Israel’s ability to use lasers had progressed significantly and could be operational much sooner than people had expected.

  BORDER Police officer checks a unit  at a laser system aimed to intercept  incendiary balloons, near the Gaza  border. (credit: AMIR COHEN/REUTERS)
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BORDER Police officer checks a unit at a laser system aimed to intercept incendiary balloons, near the Gaza border. (credit: AMIR COHEN/REUTERS)
This past January, outgoing IDF chief of staff Aviv Kohavi told The Jerusalem Post, “The laser-defense system is truly great news. It will be both land- and air-based. I do want to be cautious regarding timeframes. In another two years, we expect to deploy systems along the Gaza Strip border to test this tool’s effectiveness.

“It has worked very well in field tests. If this experiment works – and we continue to integrate and enhance the laser-defense system over two years – we will move as fast as possible to deploy it across the entire North. I cannot commit to a specific number of years. I don’t want to be optimistic and I also don’t want to be pessimistic.”

Kohavi added, “I know that there has been great progress over the last three years, and we invested a lot of money in this. We defined the laser-defense system as having multiple benefits that we would need to invest a lot in. I am happy that it has progressed so much.”

 
Lasers can be countered easily, there are enough materials out there to reflect/absorb the energy and protect missiles.
 
Lasers can be countered easily, there are enough materials out there to reflect/absorb the energy and protect missiles.

In our lab, we routinely melt ‘reflective surfaces’ with GaN lasers. I won’t be surprised if our GaN modules are being used by Israel.
 
In our lab, we routinely melt ‘reflective surfaces’ with GaN lasers. I won’t be surprised if our GaN modules are being used by Israel.
OK what thickness? Any way we will find out if it is any good when they attack Iran. If Israel has it then India will have it so Pakistan army and Chinese armies will look into countermeasures. These weapons must operate with Radars for targeting so any radar countermeasures will make these weapons ineffective.
 
OK what thickness? Any way we will find out if it is any good when they attack Iran. If Israel has it then India will have it so Pakistan army and Chinese armies will look into countermeasures. These weapons must operate with Radars for targeting so any radar countermeasures will make these weapons ineffective.
Actually, Israel is also a world leader in battlefield radar systems.

For example:
- https://www.airforce-technology.com/news/israel-iai-radar-systems-slovakia/
- https://www.asianmilitaryreview.com...man-land-forces-in-deal-worth-eur-36-million/
- https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2022/11/22/hungary-acquires-the-aesa-radars-used-by-israels-iron-dome/
- https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news...-ukraine/00000187-fbce-d78f-a5d7-fbcfb7380000
- https://www.timesofisrael.com/south-korea-buys-israeli-radar-tech-likely-to-counter-norths-missiles/
 
OK what thickness? Any way we will find out if it is any good when they attack Iran. If Israel has it then India will have it so Pakistan army and Chinese armies will look into countermeasures. These weapons must operate with Radars for targeting so any radar countermeasures will make these weapons ineffective.
Laser weapons might be assisted with radars but definitely not use them for targeting.

Lasers will use EO/IR targeting with AI target detectors and trackers.

OK what thickness?
It doesn't matter, reflective surfaces get burned by high powered lasers in milliseconds. There's no perfect mirror in this world.
 
Laser weapons might be assisted with radars but definitely not use them for targeting.

Lasers will use EO/IR targeting with AI target detectors and trackers.


It doesn't matter, reflective surfaces get burned by high powered lasers in milliseconds. There's no perfect mirror in this world.
So your Iron beam laser weapon can knock out a hypersonic titanium and ceramic layered missile before it hits Tel-Aviv using your infrared cameras? Another Israeli BS propaganda. So a Hypersonic missile with hex payload splits into smaller warheads in the troposphere and your Iron beam will have the energy required to destroy all the projectiles wiithin 8 seconds? I think you have been watching too much star wars or smoking pot. Your whole Israeli missile defense network is based on radar and as the Indians found to their cost there are effective measures to neutralise them. Israel is a small country and very suscpetible to missiles even from small nations like Lebanon.
 
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So your Iron beam laser weapon can knock out a hypersonic titanium and ceramic layered missile before it hits Tel-Aviv using your infrared cameras? Another Israeli BS propaganda. So a Hypersonic a hexa payload splits in the troposphere and your Iron beam will have the energy required to destroy all the projectiles wiithin 8 seconds? I think you have been watching too much star wars or smoking pot. Your whole Israeli missile defense network is based on radar and as the Indians found to their cost there are effective measures to neutralise them. Israel is a small country and very suscpetible to missiles even from small nations like Lebanon.
In the future, with strong enough lasers, it would entirely be possible. Right now we have Arrow 3, 2 and David's Sling for this mission.

Current technology allows us to destroy rockets, UAVs, mortars which is way more important.
 
Israel to have partial laser defenses by next year - Rafael chair

"One year from now – Israel will be the first country to have partial laser protection. In two years there may be complete protection," said Yuval Steinitz.​




  BORDER Police officer checks a unit  at a laser system aimed to intercept  incendiary balloons, near the Gaza  border. (credit: AMIR COHEN/REUTERS)
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Why the facemask though? Is COVID still considered a threat over there?
 

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