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Status of MIRACL laser system?
Does anyone know the latest on the MIRACL laser? I know that it was
test-fired in 1997 for the ASAT role, but has anything else come of it? Is it still being developed as an ASAT weapon or is there any other use for it now? |
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"Thomas J. Paladino Jr." wrote in message
Does anyone know the latest on the MIRACL laser? I know that it was test-fired in 1997 for the ASAT role, but has anything else come of it? Is it still being developed as an ASAT weapon or is there any other use for it now? MIRACL is a very /old/ system. http://helstf-www.wsmr.army.mil/miracl.htm states it lased in /1980/. Look he http://helstf-www.wsmr.army.mil/ for other info about HELSTF where MIRACL resides. There is a bunch of contact information there. You really want to be following the THEL (Tactical High Energy Laser), MTHEL (Mobile THEL), and SSL (Solid state laser) programs. Especially that last one. (http://helstf-www.wsmr.army.mil/sshcl.htm & http://www.llnl.gov/nif/lst/helstf.html). Raytheon & others are working on those. Chemical lasers are a technological deadend for the Army, IMNSHO. MIRACL and THEL use frickin FLOURINE! All you need is an arty round to send some shrapnel through a tank. Then kiss the whole system and all your troops in a radius g'bye. Flourine burns concrete, steel, plastics, etc. You can't dump water on it (produces hydroflouric acid) and standard fire retardants just feed it. AFAIK, you just have to let it burn...:S Will exHELSTFer: traded death rays for skynet, ahem, lasers for supercomputers -- William P Baird Do you know why the road less traveled by Speaking for me has so few explorers? Normally, there Home: anzha@hotmail is something big, mean, with very sharp Work: wbaird@nersc teeth - and quite the appetite! - waiting Add .com/.gov somewhere along its dark and twisty bends. |
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