neptune wrote:bring_it_on wrote:Thanks. ..Recent Airborne Aero-Optics Laboratory In-Flight Waveform Measurements of Aero-Optics and Implications for Aero-Optics Beam Control in Tactical laser Weapons. ..
How much electrical power is required for HEL?
How can the JSF currently provide the power required for the HEL?
Is that power requirement possible in a future configuration of the JSF?

The material in the first post covers that in addition to the following topics -
- How much power is required from the Laser to be effective in different mission scenarios such as Air to Air (offensive), Air to Air (defensive), Air to ground etc
- What sort of power generation is going to be required under various HEL size projections
- What plans do Lockheed and others have to generate that power
- What plans do Lockheed and others have to dissipate the heat produced from generating sufficient power
They are long (250-300 pages ) but I believe them to be worth it as the analysis is quite good.
I'll post more on the future in terms of what capability at the Propulsion level is being looked at and how more demand is being met over the longer arc of time under various AFRL efforts such as INVENT and the broader VAATE.
To start you can go over this (I may have posted this earlier)
VAATE - AIAA Position paper https://www.scribd.com/doc/254275332/VAATEand
INVENThttps://www.scribd.com/doc/254275746/IN ... rview-Iden