{"id":3756,"date":"2019-04-01T13:50:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T16:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nachodelatorre.com.ar\/mosconi\/?p=3756"},"modified":"2019-04-01T13:50:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T16:50:40","slug":"armas-de-energia-dirigida-eua-y-otras-potencias-priorizan-su-desarrollo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=3756","title":{"rendered":"Armas de energ\u00eda dirigida. EUA y otras potencias priorizan su desarrollo"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/u>El pa\u00eds que primero incorpore sus sistemas de Energ\u00eda Dirigida-DEW (Laser y otros) a sus FFAA, se encontrar\u00e1 en una situaci\u00f3n de enorme ventaja. Adecuadamente complementadas con los tradicionales sistemas de Energ\u00eda Cin\u00e9tica en servicio, resultan hoy herramientas muy eficientes para hacer frente a la amenaza creciente de enjambres de drones, as\u00ed como peque\u00f1os botes de ataque y hasta misiles de crucero.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"TheThe country that is first to develop\u00a0<\/strong>and field battlefield lasers will have a distinct military advantage.\u00a0Directed energy weapons promise to complement kinetic weapons and help fight off various emerging threats, such as swarms of drones, fast attack boats, and cruise missiles. And the recently released Missile Defense Review calls for studying the potential of space-based lasers to intercept ballistic\u00a0missiles.<\/p>\n

But to achieve that advantage, the United States must develop lasers and other directed energy weapons sooner rather than later, and do so at scale to put them into the hands of our warfighters in a meaningful way. This week\u2019s\u00a0Directed Energy Summit<\/a>, the first major gathering of its kind since the release of the Missile Defense Review, offers a forum where top national security leaders and policymakers can seize the\u00a0momentum.<\/p>\n

The question is, how? Here\u2019s a 10-point blueprint designed to get us going in the right\u00a0direction.<\/p>\n

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  1. The Defense Department must scale up laser power and improve beam quality development. The pace of maturing these capabilities is not technology-limited \u2013 it is funding-limited. Therefore, we should increase directed energy funding to between $2 billion to $3 billion per\u00a0year.<\/li>\n
  2. We should also take further action to reduce the size, power, weight, and cost requirements of these weapons. The Office of the Secretary of Defense, for example, should establish and fund a separate program toward that end \u2013 and to focus broadly on improving laser weapon lethality.\u00a0MDA<\/span>\u00a0laser programs should be fully funded to increase laser power levels for high-altitude and space-based\u00a0applications.<\/li>\n
  3. We must provide warfighters with tactical decision aids to ensure they know how and when to use these weapons. This will go far toward instilling confidence in our warfighters that these weapons will be effective in combat against multiple\u00a0threats.<\/li>\n
  4. While a tremendous amount of work has been done, we should also conduct further research to improve our understanding of laser lethality and reliability across an increasing range of weather and atmospheric conditions. This research should also focus on minimizing any collateral\u00a0damage.<\/li>\n
  5. We need to accelerate our acquisition of these capabilities. DoD takes more than 16 years, on the average, to bring new technologies from statement of need to deployment. But there are several examples of this timeline being dramatically shortened, such as the Navy\u2019s Rapid Prototyping Experimentation and Demonstration program for mission-critical capabilities and the use of specialized acquisition authorities by the\u00a0MDA<\/span>. DoD should use such accelerated processes for directed energy development and\u00a0deployment.<\/li>\n
  6. DoD must signal a long-term commitment to lasers, so the industrial base will know there will be a market for its products in the coming years. In doing so, DoD should prepare, and encourage, the industrial base to support the rising need for first-, second-, and third-tier\u00a0suppliers.<\/li>\n
  7. DoD should fully fund existing tests at sea, on land, and in the air \u2013 and there are many. Navy projects, such as the Laser Weapons System aboard the\u00a0USS<\/span>\u00a0Ponce,\u00a0<\/em>have already shown that lasers can shoot down drones and collect surveillance data at long range. Other higher-powered Navy lasers, such as the\u00a0HELIOS<\/span>\u00a0system, are in development and will be on a surface combatant next year. Meanwhile, the Army has tested a 5-kilowatt laser mounted on a Stryker combat vehicle and aims to field-test a 50-kW Stryker-mounted laser in 2021, with a goal of fielding it by 2023. Plus, the Air Force\u2019s SHiELD project is developing 50-kW air-based lasers to produce a fighter-compatible weapon for use by\u00a02021.<\/li>\n
  8. All parties involved in laser deployment should talk to each other. DoD needs to better articulate its requirements for deployable lasers. But also, the industrial base must interface better with DoD and its leadership to increase understanding of innovative laser weapon\u00a0capabilities.<\/li>\n
  9. We must also prioritize warfighter training. There is currently no established laser weapon training pipeline, and that\u2019s because lasers have no formal programs of record. Once these are set up, training must follow. To assist in establishing such programs, we should encourage wargames and operational analysis to investigate and better articulate the battlefield benefits of\u00a0lasers.<\/li>\n
  10. DoD should adapt command-and-control functions to address rapidly evolving threats, such as hypersonics, to reduce the engagement times of defensive systems. Very short engagement timelines will likely necessitate the incorporation of artificial intelligence capabilities to help the\u00a0U.S.<\/span>\u00a0leverage the speed-of-light engagement that directed energy weapons\u00a0offer.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    These are the steps we can take to bring laser prototype systems to our warfighters. Our brave men and women confront dangerous threats across all physical domains \u2013 land, air, sea, and space \u2013 and need nothing less than the world\u2019s most promising new capabilities to protect our national security. Our adversaries are not waiting to develop directed energy weapons. Neither should\u00a0we.<\/p>\n

    Fuente:\u00a0<\/strong>https:\/\/www.defenseone.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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