Navy Shipboard Lasers for Surface, Air, and Missile Defense: Background and Issues for Congress

by O'Rourke and Ronald O'Rourke

Department of Defense (DOD) development work on high-energy military lasers, which has been underway for decades, has reached the point where lasers capable of countering certain surface and air targets at ranges of about a mile could be made ready for installation on Navy surface ships over the next few years. More powerful shipboard lasers, which could become ready for installation in subsequent years, could provide Navy surface ships with an ability...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150541234X
• ISBN13: 9781505412345
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"