Lockheed Martin to test ATHENA laser weapon against moving targets in 2015

摘要

Lockheed Martin demonstrated the ability to disable a small truck using a fibre laser weapon from more than a mile (1.6 km) away. This was the first field-testing of the company's integrated 30-kW weapon system prototype. "This was part of the initial field-testing of the integrated system. We tested the integrated system on several other objects as targets, such as a gas can and an ammunition belt, and then engaged the truck," Paul Shattuck, director of directed energy systems for Lockheed Martin Space Systems, told IHS Jane's.