(军事科技)美海军用激光保护旧型军舰:一发激光一美元

U.S. Navy To Guard Old Ship With A Laser
The best defense is a good offense, unless you have lasers.

One of the U.S. Navy's oldest ships is about to get a lot more futuristic, thanks to a laser.
The Navy plans to retrofit the USS Ponce, first commissioned in 1971, with a laser weapons system early next year. The system works by using heat to blast through boats and deflect unmanned drones.
The advantages? It's fast, deadly, and incredibly cheap. So cheap, in fact, that it is estimated to cost about $1 a shot. That's less than a wholesale price of a .50 caliber bullet used in Navy machine guns. (The laser system itself is the result of $40 million in research and development, so that part isn't cheap. But the projectile sure does cost virtually nothing.)
Why the Ponce? Ponce spends time near Iran working as a base and might be particularly vulnerable to swarming attacks by small, fast Iranian boats. That all changes, of course, if it is guarded by a laser !



美海军用激光保护旧型军舰
最好的防御就是进攻, 除非你有激光

一艘陈旧的美海军军舰将要变得异常科幻了, 这都要归功于激光.

海军将要改装于1971年服役的美国海军军舰庞斯号, 明年早些将要搭载一款激光武器系统. 该系统的工作原理就是用热量射穿敌船及打偏无人机.

优势在哪? 它快速, 致命, 而且非常便宜. 事实上, 它便宜到打一发激光估计只要1美元. 那可要比海军机枪.50口径弹药的批发价格都便宜. (虽然激光系统本身的研发价格达到4千万, 但是发射它的话那简直就是不要钱)

为什么装在庞斯号上呢? 因为庞斯号作为一个海上基地长时间都在伊朗附近, 而且对于蜂拥而上的伊朗小快艇的攻击尤其脆弱. 不过现在一切都将要改变了, 当然了, 因为庞斯号有激光嘛!






U.S. Navy To Guard Old Ship With A Laser
The best defense is a good offense, unless you have lasers.

One of the U.S. Navy's oldest ships is about to get a lot more futuristic, thanks to a laser.
The Navy plans to retrofit the USS Ponce, first commissioned in 1971, with a laser weapons system early next year. The system works by using heat to blast through boats and deflect unmanned drones.
The advantages? It's fast, deadly, and incredibly cheap. So cheap, in fact, that it is estimated to cost about $1 a shot. That's less than a wholesale price of a .50 caliber bullet used in Navy machine guns. (The laser system itself is the result of $40 million in research and development, so that part isn't cheap. But the projectile sure does cost virtually nothing.)
Why the Ponce? Ponce spends time near Iran working as a base and might be particularly vulnerable to swarming attacks by small, fast Iranian boats. That all changes, of course, if it is guarded by a laser !



美海军用激光保护旧型军舰
最好的防御就是进攻, 除非你有激光

一艘陈旧的美海军军舰将要变得异常科幻了, 这都要归功于激光.

海军将要改装于1971年服役的美国海军军舰庞斯号, 明年早些将要搭载一款激光武器系统. 该系统的工作原理就是用热量射穿敌船及打偏无人机.

优势在哪? 它快速, 致命, 而且非常便宜. 事实上, 它便宜到打一发激光估计只要1美元. 那可要比海军机枪.50口径弹药的批发价格都便宜. (虽然激光系统本身的研发价格达到4千万, 但是发射它的话那简直就是不要钱)

为什么装在庞斯号上呢? 因为庞斯号作为一个海上基地长时间都在伊朗附近, 而且对于蜂拥而上的伊朗小快艇的攻击尤其脆弱. 不过现在一切都将要改变了, 当然了, 因为庞斯号有激光嘛!