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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Laser truck leaps ahead
The U.S. Army has thousands of trucks, but one of its newer vehicles clearly stands out from the rest.
Boeing, the prime contractor for the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command’s (SMDC) High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator (HEL TD), recently completed integrating a ruggedized beam control system and other critical hardware on an Oshkosh military vehicle.
The beam control system (BCS) will find and track targets and point and focus the laser beam on those targets. The most eye-catching feature of the BCS is the beam director, a rotating, dome-shaped turret that extends above the roof of the vehicle when it engages targets.
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