{"id":3448,"date":"2018-11-14T13:30:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T16:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nachodelatorre.com.ar\/mosconi\/?p=3448"},"modified":"2018-11-14T13:30:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T16:30:50","slug":"el-pentagono-prioriza-las-inversiones-en-laser-para-sus-sistemas-de-defensa-misilistica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=3448","title":{"rendered":"El Pent\u00e1gono prioriza las inversiones en l\u00e1ser para sus sistemas de defensa misil\u00edstica"},"content":{"rendered":"

El Departamento de Defensa de EUA p rioriza las inversiones en sistemas de Armas de Energ\u00eda Directa (DEW) \u00a0para los pr\u00f3ximos ejercicios presupuestarios. Si bien se estima que, en pocos a\u00f1os los sistemas DEW port\u00e1tiles de corto alcance estar\u00e1n en manos de los combatientes, reconocen que para poder incorporarlos a los grandes sistemas de Defensa A\u00e9rea y \u00a0Misil\u00edstica \u00a0ser\u00e1 necesario realizar\u00a0 grandes inversiones.<\/p>\n

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\"\"WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Defense Department is planning to increase investments in directed-energy systems\u00a0used for missile defense<\/a>\u00a0over the next several budget cycles, according to the department\u2019s top technology adviser.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Michael Griffin<\/a>, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, said Tuesday he expects to have usable directed-energy weaponry in the hands of war fighters in \u201cno more than a few years,\u201d but acknowledged the size of a system usable for missile defense requires greater investment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cYou need another factor of three to four to have as space control weapon, a missile defense capability \u2014 space-based, boost-phase or\u00a0midcourse capability\u00a0\u2014 with a large directed-energy weapon. We need to be in the megawatt class to have that,\u201d Griffin said at an event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThat\u2019s not right around the corner but that\u2019s not utterly out of reach either. So you\u2019re going to see in upcoming\u00a0budgets for missile defense\u00a0a renewed emphasis on laser scaling across several technologies because we feel we have to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Directed-energy weaponry has been a\u00a0dream for decades\u00a0within the department, but\u00a0Pentagon planners\u00a0and\u00a0industry experts\u00a0have become increasingly confident the use of at least small systems in the near term is realistic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Another potential use for lower-tier systems identified by Griffin is for disrupting\u00a0swarming unmanned systems, something he called a potential \u201ctransformative concern.\u201d Using high-powered microwaves to disrupt those swarms may make sense, he predicted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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More broadly, Griffin called for a \u201cproliferation\u201d of sensors in low-Earth orbit to combat hypersonic threats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe really need to be closer to the action,\u201d he said about the\u00a0need for those systemsto be in low-Earth orbit. \u201cWe need to be proliferated and reliant, so that removing a few of those satellites by the adversary doesn\u2019t alter our capability. We need to think about space as a domain which our adversaries seek to remove from our use, and respond accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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