{"id":14015,"date":"2024-02-01T08:28:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T11:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=14015"},"modified":"2024-02-01T08:28:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T11:28:02","slug":"us-navy-y-las-capacidades-de-las-armas-de-energia-dirigida-dew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=14015","title":{"rendered":"US Navy y las capacidades de las armas de energ\u00eda dirigida (DEW)"},"content":{"rendered":"

En el\u00a0Simposio\u00a0\u201cSurface Navy Association 2024<\/em>\u201d realizado recientemente, los participantes de la US Navy y la industria de ese pa\u00eds, analizaron los avances alcanzados en el \u00e1rea de las Armas de Energ\u00eda Dirigida (DEW), especialmente las del tipo L\u00e1ser. El escenario actual de conflicto en el Mar Rojo en el que buques cargueros y naves de guerra son atacados por misiles y drones, motiv\u00f3 que los participantes pregunten acerca del avance real del desarrollo de las DEW y por qu\u00e9 raz\u00f3n no se est\u00e1n empleando a\u00fan. El Alte Fred Pyle expres\u00f3: \u201cDebemos ser intelectualmente honestos cuando discutimos acerca de las capacidades reales<\/u><\/em>\u00a0de las DEW y su posibilidad cierta de emplearlas operacionalmente\u201d. Hace d\u00e9cadas que la US Navy avanza en programas de DEW, hace 15 a\u00f1os se instal\u00f3 una arma L\u00e1ser en el USS \u201cPonce\u201d, pero lo cierto es que no se est\u00e1n empleando en combate. La amenaza del ataque masivo con enjambres de drones, es una de las preocupaciones m\u00e1s grandes que tienen hoy las unidades navales de superficie y todo indica que la herramienta m\u00e1s eficiente para defenderse son las DEW.<\/p>\n

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SNA 2024 \u2014 The Navy and industry need to be more intellectually honest when discussing laser weapon systems, according to an admiral overseeing the technology\u2019s development. And speaking plainly and honestly about developing that tech, \u201cIt\u2019s hard,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes we have a tendency to over promise and under deliver,\u201d Rear Adm. Fred Pyle told attendees at the\u00a0Surface Navy Association\u2019s annual symposium<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday. \u201cWe need to flip that to where, when we\u2019re intellectually honest, when we\u2019re honest with ourselves from a technology capability, that we have an agreed upon sight picture of what it\u2019s going to look like to deliver that capability.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters following his remarks onstage, Pyle added, \u201cI can go back to the Arabian Gulf and probably 15 years ago, we had a ship called the Ponce that had a laser on it. \u2026 We\u2019re still working on that technology.\u201d<\/p>\n

Laser weapons or \u201cdirected energy\u201d technology has been a fascination for the Pentagon writ large for decades. Within the Navy\u2019s research and development portfolio, especially, numerous projects can be found that in one way or another have sought to push the needle closer to having a sailor underway fire a laser that knocks down an enemy drone or takes out a small boat. One of the more notable projects coming close to that vision is HELIOS, made by Lockheed Martin, and currently equipped onboard the Preble (DDG-88).<\/p>\n

But recent surface Navy operations in the Red and Mediterranean Seas, combined with excitement from top Navy leaders this week about directed energy, has prompted the question here and elsewhere: Why isn\u2019t the Navy shooting down operational targets, in the Med or elsewhere, with lasers yet?<\/p>\n

Back to Pyle\u2019s role in all of this.<\/p>\n

The admiral\u2019s billet is what the Navy calls the director of surface warfare requirements or \u201cN96.\u201d Put plainly, his job is to guide the money for the development and fielding of new surface ships as well as certain weapon systems used onboard them, potential lasers included.<\/p>\n

The day before Pyle took the stage on Wednesday, the Navy\u2019s top surface warfare officer, Vice Adm. Brendan McLane,\u00a0expressed frustrations<\/a>\u00a0with the Navy\u2019s current pace of laser weapon system development.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not content with the pace of directed energy weapons. We must deliver on this promise that this technology gives us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

One of the key promises of directed energy weapons are their cost-per-shot. The Navy is increasingly concerned about the idea of drone\u00a0\u201cswarm attacks,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0wherein multiple drones, potentially from different warfare domains, bombard a ship in concert. Eventually, the cost of taking down a relatively cheap drone with a multi-million dollar missile just doesn\u2019t make sense. If fielded as envisioned, one shot from a well-made laser should cost a fraction of the price \u2014 at least in theory. But for now, that\u2019s still mostly all it is.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe continue to invest in directed energy capabilities,\u201d Pyle said. \u201cIt requires space, weight, power and cooling, which can be a challenge on our current surface combatants.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that HELIOS and the Preble (DDG-88) are expected to conduct testing over the course of this year. He added that, lasers or not, the current capabilities the Navy is using in the Middle East right now to defend both Israel and commercial shipping are \u201cperforming extremely well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we\u2019re very focused on delivering directed energy capability and we\u2019re building it into the future [budget requests] in mind with our frigate and the DDG(X) [the next-generation destroyer],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The hold up in fielding lasers to the fleet has also gotten the attention of McLane and Pyle\u2019s boss, Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very, very excited by it,\u201d he told reporters of directed energy weapons following his remarks here Wednesday night. \u201cLike the SWO boss [McLane], I\u2019m concerned that it\u2019s taken a long time to come to fruition.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the way of the future,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd we are going to be looking in the fiscal year [2026 and 2027 budgets] and into the [future] on how to accelerate the deployment of HELIOS and HELIOS-like capabilities on our [destroyers] because it is the way that we will need to address the swarm attacks of drones on our systems.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fuente:<\/strong> https:\/\/breakingdefense.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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