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Sunday, February 20, 2011
US Navy's new record setting laser can down cruise missiles in seconds
The US Navy has set a new world record, by coming up with a new type of laser that can shoot cruise missiles from the sky in seconds, with greater accuracy.
In co- ordination with the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the scientists injected a sustained 500 kilovolts (kV) of juice into a prototype accelerator where the existing limit had been 320 kV, thereby setting a new world record, Fox News reports.
Carlos Hernandez Garcia, Director of the injector of the electron and gun systems for the Free Electron Laser (FEL), said: "This is brand new. It has not been done before, in the world," adding that this breakthrough was the culmination of six years of development.
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