AERI/HEL surface-to-air defence system & laser fusion Part 6

AERI/HEL technology: next-generation interceptor laser systems for anti-fighter, anti-missile and anti-ICBM applications ( AERI/HEL surface-to-air defence system) & laser fusion Part 6

1. lasers have the technical problem of energy attenuation due to the diffusion of laser light in the atmosphere and the bending of the laser due to atmospheric and meteorological conditions at the time.

2.As a countermeasure, Airborne Lasers (ABLs) used a two-stage system, first firing a laser for sighting correction and then emitting a higher-energy laser. However, even so, the power of a laser of a scale that could be mounted on an aircraft could only reach a maximum of several tens of kilometres.

3.In contrast, the air-launched AERI/HEL of the Artificial Evolution Research Institute (AERI https://www.aeri-japan.com/) has a HEL that can achieve an ultra-long range of 200 km, and generates extremely high-power laser shock waves of 50 MW.

4. conventional ABLs can be used to shoot down ballistic missile ICBMs immediately after launch. The problem was pointed out that the conventional ABL was too cumbersome and dangerous, as it required large ABL aircraft to remain in the air near the target for a long period of time until the enemy missile was launched. Eventually, budget shortfalls were a direct result, and in December 2011 the The ABL development programme was cancelled.

5 Subsequent research and development of the air-launched laser ABL has focused on the development of a defence system against missiles approaching from behind the aircraft and a small turret that can be mounted on small business-class aircraft.

6 In contrast, the Artificial Evolution Research Institute's (AERI https://www.aeri-japan.com/) high-energy lasers (AERI HEL technology) is a 50 MW class super-power, variable wavelength sniper in the visible to mid-infrared region, which can be selected at any wavelength. It can directly snipe and disable supersonic flying objects such as ICBMs, fighter jets and missiles.

7. the next-generation interceptor laser system for anti-fighter, anti-missile and anti-ICBM applications (A ERI/HEL surface-to-air defence system:. (https://www.aeri-japan.com/anti-icbm-interceptor-lasersystem)

It can neutralise not only artillery shells but also supersonic flying objects (e.g. ICBMs, fighter jets, missiles, etc.) travelling at speeds in excess of Mach 20 (more than 7000 m/s) at a distance of about 200 km.

8. conventional air-launched laser ABL can be used for short distances (about 3 km away) at Mach 0.5 (170 m/s). 5 (170 m/s) over a short distance (about 3 km away).

9. AERI (https://www.aeri-japan.com/) and the defence system applications HEL technology has also been tested to generate nuclear fusion. HEL output is more than 1000 times higher than that of conventional high-power lasers (HEL), which enables the critical sea temperature required for nuclear fusion to be achieved. As a result, laser fusion has been successfully achieved.

Ph.D. & Dr. Physicist Kazuto Kamuro, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Graduate School, California Institute of Technology