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The laser is pointed towards a target in order to direct the weapon. Will the laser be visible at one point, or is it invisible through out the course of the weapon? and how maneuverable can a laser guided weapon be?
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Yes.The laser is pointed towards a target in order to direct the weapon.
No.Will the laser be visible at one point,...
Yes...There are lasers in the x-ray region. For military purposes, that would be extremely unnecessary, but laser guided weapons, such as the JDAM, do not display beams crisscrossing the sky....or is it invisible through out the course of the weapon?
As maneuverable as flight control technology allow. Remember, any body that require and exploit aerodynamic forces qualify as an 'aircraft', just that powered aircrafts can be more maneuverable than non-powered ones. That mean a rocket will be more maneuverable than a gravity powered bomb.and how maneuverable can a laser guided weapon be?
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Yes...There are lasers in the x-ray region. For military purposes, that would be extremely unnecessary, but laser guided weapons, such as the JDAM, do not display beams crisscrossing the sky.
As maneuverable as flight control technology allow. Remember, any body that require and exploit aerodynamic forces qualify as an 'aircraft', just that powered aircrafts can be more maneuverable than non-powered ones. That mean a rocket will be more maneuverable than a gravity powered bomb.
Really...???They're IR lasers. Xray lasers are extremely hard to produce and require a particle accelerator with diameters measured in kilometers.
In contrast, a team at Livermore has developed a small "tabletop" x-ray laser that can be fired every three or four minutes. By using two pulses--one of about a nanosecond and another in the trillionth-of-a-second (picosecond) range--their laser uses far less energy and does not require the cooling-off period.
New Technique Opens Door To Tabletop X-Ray Laser
Boulder CO (SPX) Feb 26, 2007
Most of today's X-ray lasers require so much power that they rely on fusion laser facilities the size of football stadiums, making their use impractical.
"We've come up with a good end run around the requirement for a monstrous power source," Kapteyn said.
Most of today's X-ray lasers require so much power that they rely on fusion laser facilities the size of football stadiums or larger, making their use impractical. Murnane and Kapteyn generate coherent laser-like X-ray beams by using an intense femtosecond laser and combining hundreds or thousands of visible photons together. And the key is they are doing it with a desktop-size system.
Essentially...Yes.thanks guys.
So laser guidance is more effective simply because it is harder to jam where as a internal guided weapon system may be more accurate but prone to jam. is that right?
Essentially...Yes.
But 'guidance' imply an external source so there really is no such thing as an 'internal guided' system. There is 'inertial navigation' which is basically a guessing system that relies strictly on internal sensors such as gyroscopes and accelerometers that detects displacements. An INS system that has no external correlative measures is prone to 'drift' and the error increases with distance and time.
What we want is to 'illuminate' the target using the EM spectrum: either radar or laser. We control the medium. We send the medium towards the target. With infrared (IR) the target control the medium, meaning we rely upon the target to provide some form of external guidance, which is infrared radiation.
I dont know what u mean by "internal guided weapon". Inertial prolly? Actually laser guided weapons are very accurate. They are also relatively cheap. Disadvantages of laser guided weapons are follow:thanks guys.
So laser guidance is more effective simply because it is harder to jam where as a internal guided weapon system may be more accurate but prone to jam. is that right?