{"id":3151,"date":"2023-01-23T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2023-08-16T22:42:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T19:42:44","slug":"lockheed-martin-achieves-first-light-in-latest-laser-lab-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=3151","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin Achieves First Light in Latest Laser Lab Demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) achieved first light from the Directed Energy Interceptor for Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense System (DEIMOS) system, which verifies that the laser\u2019s optical performance parameters align with the system design parameters.<\/strong>

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The demonstration verifies beam quality of our affordable 50 kW-class laser architecture designed to meet U.S. Army\u2019s modernization strategy. U.S. Army 50 kW-class laser architecture designed (Illustration by Lockheed Martin).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lockheed Martin\u2019s 50 kW-class DEIMOS system is a ruggedized, tactical laser weapon system that can be integrated into the Stryker combat vehicle to deliver robust directed energy capability to the U.S. Army\u2019s challenging maneuver-short range air defense (M-SHORAD) mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe 50 kW-class laser weapon system brings another critical piece to help ensure the U.S. Army has a layered air defense capability,\u201d said Rick Cordaro, vice president, Lockheed Martin Advanced Product Solutions. \u201cDEIMOS has been tailored from our prior laser weapon successes to affordably meet the Army’s larger modernization strategy for air and missile defense and to improve mission success with 21st<\/sup> Century Security solutions.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why It Matters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lockheed Martin\u2019s DEIMOS first light demonstration is a crucial milestone along the path to helping the Army perform its DE M-SHORAD mission, which is intended to deliver a maneuverable laser system capable of negating unmanned aerial systems, rotary-wing aircraft and rockets, artillery and mortars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First light measures the expected beam quality of the system while testing end-to-end performance of our game-changing, low-cost Spectral Beam Combination (SBC) architecture. The key benefit of the company\u2019s SBC is that power can be scaled while retaining the excellent beam quality of the individual fiber lasers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022, Lockheed Martin demonstrated<\/a> Layered Laser Defense (LLD) capability by defeating two surrogate cruise missiles at tactically relevant ranges. This LLD capability:<\/p>\n\n\n\n