Laser-based firing to improve reliability, affordability, and safety in Army artillery systems

摘要

U.S. Army field artillery experts are trying to replace primer-based firing systems with high-temperature, diode-pumped lasers inrnheavy artillery to improve reliability, affordability, and safety, Army officials say.rnThe Joint Munitions & Lethality Contracting Center of the Army's Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center (ARDEC) at Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., plans to issue an industry request for proposals (RFP) later this month to develop ways to manufacture high-temperature, diode-pumped lasers as replacements for primer-based ignition systems in 155-millimeter artillery guns.